The Rookie and the Rat

"Welcome to the new Tree of Beginning. Central area of the Resistance." Mew looked at all of their reactions and grinned. He knew they would look surprised.

The place looked just like a human city except that all of the infrastructure was inside the Tree. The buildings looked a little worn and crooked but a building is a building. "How long were you working on this?" Articuno asked. Mew shrugged.

"A week? I had a lot of help." Mew was interrupted by a loud voice.

"FOX TROT!" Mew turned to see a blue pokemon with lots of 'pipe' like tubes coming out of his head.

"What's up Exploud?" Mew asked. The pokemon, Exploud, moved to the side to reveal a medium pokemon who was wearing a full armoured uniform that was blue.

"You got a new trainee! Major's orders!" He then indicated to the pokemon. "He's an Electabuzz! Name Buzz Linen!"

Mew nodded. "Right. Pvt. Linen on me. Thanks Exploud. I'll take it from here." Exploud nodded and went back to his sentry Turret. Buzz saluted.

"It's an honour to fighting along side you, sir!" Mew rolled his eyes.

"I'm no-one special, kid. Now our first order of business is to get these guys housed. They may have to share rooms. Then we have a search and rescue for eight missing Legendaries." Celebi frowned.

"You have to go back down there?" She asked. Mew nodded.

"Not only for the S&R. But we need to plant a resonator so that we can find the perfect place to put a couple of missiles to take out their tunnels and put the bastards down!"

"Amen to that!" Ratchet exclaimed throwing his fist up in the air.

"Let's go!" With that the large group went forward to find somewhere to home them.

Two Hours Later

"Alright guys, we're almost at the drop point!" Buzz called back. Mew and Ratchet nodded back.

"Remind me again Mew. Why did we leave Fluff and Aura behind?" Ratchet asked.

"Because we need to train the Rookie and we can't have too big a force, otherwise the Locust would start to get suspicious. And they're with the larger force hitting Lavander Town in the Hoenn Region." Mew answered. "This way, we'll get a clean way in."

"We're here!" Buzz called back. Mew nodded as the two held onto the handle bars on the Helicopter that was transporting them. Once it touched down, they jumped off and it flew off.

"Control. This is Mew do you copy?"

"Rodger Mew I copy." Mew recognised this voice all too well.

"Celebi? Since when did you join Control?" He asked. Celebi giggled a bit.

"I joined because they were short handed. Guard is basically showing me how to use the computer and most of the girl Legendaries are here. The Guys are in the large force attacking Lavander Town." Mew smiled.

"Thanks. We needed the additional support. Anyway, have you got a fix on our location." Celebi tapped some things into the computer.

"Standby! Okay I got you. Co-ordinates Abomasnow nine-three right?" Mew nodded, even though she couldn't see.

"You learn quickly. Alright we're heading to the cave to get into the Locust Hallow but the cave's entrance is packed with Locust. We need a way in." Celebi typed some more things in.

"Okay have you got a laptop?" Mew looked and saw one in Buzz's pack.

"Yeah we've got one." Celebi typed some more things in.

"Okay. I've uploaded a Skarmory Drone onto it. That should be enough to take them out."

"You're the best Celebi. Thank you. Fox Trot One out." What Mew couldn't see was that Celebi had started to blush deeply from this.

"Alright Rookie. Loosen them up a bit." Buzz nodded and opened up the laptop and uploaded the missile and shot it. Ratchet and Mew looked towards the cave and saw that the drone dropped right into the centre of the locust base and took them all out.

"Nice shot Rookie!" Ratchet exclaimed.

"Let's go Fox Trot One! And Look out for Locust that can still shoot." They made their way over the dead Locust and into the cave, where they met more resistance. Locust started shooting uncontrollably at them. They took cover by a piece of rubble from the destroyed sentry towers.

"RATCHET! HOW MANY ARE THERE?" Buzz exclaimed, firering the weapon over the rubble without looking.

Ratchet, bravely, looked over the rubble to see seven Locust. "SEVEN HOSTILES!" He shouted. Mew nodded and saw a stalactite next to them about five meters away. Being daring he rolled his way over and shot many times, hitting two of them, killing them.

"GUYS! COVER ME!" Mew yelled to the other two. They nodded and shot at the Locust unrelentingly. The Locust withdrew behind cover, but not before one of them was shot through the head.

Mew then ran around and shot all of them as fast as he could, taking three of them out, but the last one knocked him down and was going to kill him.

Until Pvt. Linen came and Chainsawed through the Locust from behind, splitting it in half. "You okay, sir?" Buzz asked, holding out a hand to help him up. Mew excepted it and Buzz helped him up.

"Yeah. Thanks Roo...Buzz." Mew smiled as Ratchet came. Mew then motioned them to follow. And they did.

Meanwhile

"Alright guys! Lavander Town's in sight!" Uxie exclaimed to the others. Azelf grumbled.

"I still can't believe the Major made YOU Sargent. I play loads of Call of Duty!" Manaphy shook his head.

"This is a real war Azelf. And this is against some creatures that we've never seen nor heard of before. This isn't game!" Manaphy said in Uxie's defence. Uxie smiled, until he saw some strange creature with some sort of...

"Spinda hold back!" Uxie yelled over the roar of the engines. A question mark appeared over the other three's heads.

"Why did we stop?" Jirachi asked getting up and looking over the edge along with Azelf and Manaphy. Uxie pointed towards the creature he saw earlier.

"Spinda! What are those things?" Uxie shouted again.

"Wow! Good eyes, Sarge! Would have been bad if we ran into those! Those are Tickers the Locust use them as land-mines, so keep your distance." Azelf shrugged.

"No argument here." Uxie suppressed a chuckle.

"For once." He muttered under his breath. "Well guys! Looks like we'll have to clear the way of those Tickers before Snorlax Four-Five can move up!" He called as he slid down the ladder.

The others followed his example and moved forward. They then saw a hole with green gas filtering out suddenly appear. Then three Locust climbed out and opened fire.

"Guys! Behind cover! SPINDA MOVE THE RIG BACK!" Uxie yelled as he and Jirachi hid behind an upturned car. Azelf and Manaphy hid in the ally way of an old, worn-out book shop.

Then another hole burst open and four more Locust climbed out.

"OKAY SMARTY-PANTS! WHAT DO WE DO NOW?" Azelf shouted angrily as she saw this as his fault by telling them to get off the Rig. Uxie fired his lancer over the car, completely missing, since he couldn't see them.

"KEEP FIRERING ON THEM! I'LL SEE IF I CAN CALL ANY NEARBY SQUADS TO ASSIST US!" Just as he said this, a grenade was thrown into one of the holes and it caused it to explode, causing two of the Locust to get hit by rubble. They looked up towards the top of the building where the explosive came from to see two familiar figures.

"You guys needed some help?" Darkrai's voice came from their tac-coms, jokingly. Uxie sighed.

"It's bloody good to hear from you mate." Just as he said that Jirachi and Manaphy killed two more of the things and Cresselia threw a grenade, destroying the last hole and the last of the Locust.

"Alright. It looks like you guys have a lot of Tickers to eliminate. We'll provide sniper cover when needed. And Cresselia is a real sharp shooter." Lucky for her that Darkrai was turned away, because he couldn't see her blush.

"Thanks Darkrai! But I thought you had three others in your squad. And where's your Rig." Darkrai could be heard sighing, even if it weren't through the tac-com.

"Tickers blew it up. We only survived because of Cresselia's Safeguard. The others were too far away and they fell off the Rig. And you know how large a drop that is." Uxie nodded.

"Sorry about your squad. Right now we need to take out these Tickers so Spinda can move up. Once we're done, you guys can get on our Rig to the Drill zone." Darkrai turned to Cresselia and nodded.

"Okay. We'll see you soon. Alpha Four out." Uxie turned to the others.

"Alright guys, Darkrai and Cresselia are going to provide sniper cover from above. Azelf, I want you to take Manaphy and take out all the Tickers on the East side of that building you're taking cover behind. I'll take Jirachi down this road. We'll regroup with Alpha Four at the end of the road. Go!" They then took to their objectives respectively.

Meanwhile

"Man this is bad!" Exclaimed a pokemon that appeared to be wearing a white dress with a green, helmet-like thing a bit like Uxie's.

"What's wrong?" Celebi asked. Right now, most of the Legendaries who weren't in the war were in control. The only exception was Latias, since she was grieving over Latios. The Gaurdivior looked over and sighed.

"I just checked and saw that the Locust are regrouping over at the drill zone. It's like some one had given them the heads up about our plan." Just then Celebi remembered something from earlier.

"Wait! Mew was discussing this with Fox Trot One earlier. He said that we may have a rat." The Gaurdivior, Guard, looked alarmed.

"What?" She exclaimed before Celebi slapped a paw over her mouth.

"Shh...We don't want to let them know we're onto them. Listen, I'm going to see if I can locate whoever's been sending messages to the an unknown source. We find that, we found our rat." Guard nodded. "Until then this stays between you and me."

As Celebi left to her own desk, Guard looked a bit distressed. She then uploaded something on her own computer and deleted a folder that said 'Secret Plans', she then deleted every out-box message that she had labelled unknown. "Good thing I'm a good actor. Now all I have to do is eliminate her and I'm in the clear." She thought looking at Celebi.

Celebi was typing everything she could looking at everyone's out-box, even her fellow Legendaries. She wasn't trusting anybody completely at this point. She then decided to try a different approach, since she couldn't find anything.

"I didn't think it would be this difficult. WAIT! Mew has more experience with computers! And I know I can trust him, even with my life!" With that she contacted Mew.

Meanwhile

Mew, Buzz and Ratchet had gotten much deeper into the hallow then before. Celebi's voice suddenly came into the tac-com, very quietly.

"Mew?" Mew decided to get the other two and take cover in a small cavern before answering.

"Celebi. What do you need?" Mew asked softly.

"Well, you remember what you and Fox Trot were talking about before. You know..." She whispered the last part. "...The rat?"

"Yes I remember. Why?" Celebi quietly responded to him with her plan.

"Well. I'm going to try and locate the rat. I've already looked on everybody's out-box to see if they E-mailed battle plans but that came back cold. And since you know more about computers, do you know what I should do?" Mew put on a thought full face.

"It's possible that they would have deleted the E-mails to stop anyone from suspecting them. But even if it's deleted, the computer still retains the information about it. Try shifting through the recycle bins of all the computers. The info should still be there."

"Right. Thanks Mew." Mew shook his head.

"No thanks needed. But promise me you'll be careful. I don't want anything bad to happen to you." Celebi blushed greatly after that and almost squealed like if they were just having another boring day in the Hall of Origin.

Guard, who was listening to their conversation through a bit of hacking was both scared and furious. Scared, because she was about to be found out and there was nothing she could do about it.

Furious because Mew was giving Celebi affection while she got squat for almost eighteen years. "Why is she so special to him? I've been his closest friend since I was four! What does she have? I am way getter looking than her! As well as smarter! And from what he's told me in the past, she was very insulting towards him!" She was jealous. She then had a flashback to when she first saw Mew.

Flashback

A small Ralts,a white pokemon with a green helmet with a red arrow sticking out the front, was skipping along the woods near the Tree of Beginning. She then stopped when she heard the sound of crying.

She then went over to see a much younger Mew, from when he was six, with his face in his paws, crying. Being brave at the face of the one she knew as a Legendary pokemon she walked up to him and asked. "What's the matter?" He looked up to see the female pokemon.

"Celebi was mean again!" Guard tipped her head to the side in confusion.

"Who's Celebi?" Mew wiped the tears away the best he could before replying.

"She's a Meany-face that won't let me play games with her and her friends. So since almost everyone is friends with her I can't play with anyone." He said and Guard was sympathetic. She walked over and sat next to him.

"I can be your friend if you want?" Mew looked at her and saw that she wasn't lying. "My name is Guard by the way. And who needs that Meany-face, Celebrea, anyway!" She said, cheerfully. Mew laughed a bit.

"It's Celebi and I'd love to be friends!" The Ralts smiled.

"And don't you worry Mew! I've got a lot of nice friends that will be your friends as well. A Buneary called Fluff, A Riolu called Aura and a Trapinch called Ratchet!" Mew smiled widely.

"YAY!" He shouted. Then he was tapped on the shoulder. He looked confused for a second before hearing the well-known phrase.

"Tag! You're it!" She then started running and Mew started chasing her.

Guard smiled at the memory. It wasn't long after getting to know Mew that she started to harbour feelings for him and she found out it was love when she was sixteen, and a Kirlia. She opened the draw on her desk and pulled out a small pistol.

"Soon me and Mew will together. And Celebi will be long gone by then." She put the gun in her pocket and went over to where Celebi was working.