If anyone wants to check out the character's information and what not, Ethan, Lyra, Natalie and Silver's profile are up on pokemonfanon . wikia . com (have to space those out or ff will not let it be on here). If you go there, look them up as: Ethan Goldman, Lyra Soulstice, Silver Cryster and Natalie Perch. Jim's profile will be done...whenever I feel like it...

~Season 7, Rocket Battles~

Opening: We Will Be Heroes

Chapter 44: Master of Disguise II

Ethan sat in the Pokemon Center, admiring his seven badges, but also staring at the eight space that was empty, ready for the final one.

"All the badges will soon be ours..." Ethan was going to finish a though, but his PokeGear rang. Lyra appeared from upstairs and came and sat in a chair in the Pokemon Center lounge.

Ethan checked his PokeGear. Elm came up on the screen, full color and his face was hysterical.

"Ethan! Goldenrod City, all of Johto really is under attack! I'm in Goldenrod at this moment..." Elm said quickly.

"What kind of attack?" Ethan sputtered. Lyra looked over at him, her face grimming.

"You just need to head to Goldenrod immediately. Turn on your radio on your way there, you'll learn more! I've sent a Fearow over to pick you both up." Professor Elm finished and hung up.

Lyra stood up. "What is it?"

She hurried next to Ethan.

Ethan clicked off his PokeGear.

"We're needed in Goldenrod City, ASAP!" Ethan insisted.

Ethan and Lyra headed outside and glanced around, finally spotting the silhouette of a large winged pokemon against the sunlight. It landed and waved its wings frantically.

"The Fearow! Professor Elm sent it for us to ride. Come on, Lyra!" The duo hopped on its back and it took off through the skies. Ethan turned on his PokeGear and switched to the Radio feature.

"Team...Rocket...has officially taken over the radio waves! We will bring Giovanni back...if he can hear us...Giovanni...if you're out there...please respond! We have rebuilt Team Rocket and we're waiting for you return...Please...Hello? We need you! We are Team Rocket, distributing this message across Johto! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Lyra and Ethan threw a glance at each other. "This can't be good..." Is what flashed through both of their heads, and what was sent through their eyes to each other.

Fearow pierced the air as it headed towards Goldenrod at an alarming pace.

Soon, the Radio Tower was in view. Fearow landed down at the base, where Ethan and Lyra hopped off. Professor Elm rushed up to them, his face in a tizzy.

"Ethan, Lyra, I received word that Team Rocket stormed the Radio Tower and has taken full control of the radio waves!"

"Yeah, we heard on the way here!" Lyra replied.

"We're in luck, because a girl named Natalie showed up a little while ago. She already headed inside. Also...A red-haired boy also came by. He said his name was Silver, and that Team Rocket had overrun the underground as well. So, he headed there to defeat Team Rocket. He is the one that stole that pokemon, right?" Elm explained.

"Yes, sir, he is..." Ethan said.

"I see...Ethan, Lyra, you must go in and help!"

Ethan nodded and immediately stormed inside.

"Silver...helping..." Ethan thought as he opened the doors and barreled inside.

Lyra followed him inside, through the open doors.

Inside, Rocket Grunts were filing upstairs. Lyra, as she was about to round the main desk, was yanked down behind the wood by Ethan. He hushed her and looked over. Proton was standing next to the stairs, leading the grunts. After the last one was upstairs, he glared at the woman at the front desk.

"Lock the doors! Make sure no-one comes in!" He snapped.

Ethan's eyes grew big. Just now, he saw between two filing cabinets on the other side of the room was Natalie, curled up hiding. The woman at the front desk, after Proton followed the grunts upstairs, sauntered around the desk. She spotted Ethan and Lyra.

"Oh, thank goodness! Someone is here to help!" She turns and sees Natalie as well. "But I must pretend you aren't here..." The woman smiles and goes to lock the front doors. She turns the key, takes a heavy breath, and walks behind her desk, her face as if she was terrified.

Natalie saw Ethan and Lyra and she pulled herself out from the filing cabinets. She waved a hand to the two. Lyra stood up and hurried behind Natalie. Ethan followed, but in front.

"Nice of you two to catch up..." Natalie sneered playfully.

"Yeah...Natalie, you should head up, we'll cover you!" Ethan suggested.

Natalie nodded and skittered towards the stairs. She climbed them on all fours, as if an animal. When she reached the last one, she peeked over the edge of the staircase and saw numerous Rockets guarding the floor.

"Agh, this isn't going to work..." Natalie finally deducted. She looked over and saw three Rocket Uniforms lying on the ground. Natalie hopped over the stairs and hailed Ethan and Lyra over.

"Those look like they could fit us!" Ethan popped.

Lyra and Natalie nodded. In a few minutes, they had the uniforms and hats on. Lyra let her hair down and they headed upstairs.

Ethan cleared his voice before they reached the top. When there, Natalie and Lyra stood behind him.

"Ahem, sorry we're late, we had to deal with some stuff...er, underground..." Ethan said in a deep voice.

One of the rockets walked over and eyed them awkwardly.

"Really? Hmm...Well, what's the Rocket Motto?" The man asked.

"Um...Rockets, Rockets, we are cool!" Ethan said, knowing their cover was about to be blown.

The man eyed them again. He nodded. "Well, I guess you're legitimate..." He walked back to his post.

Ethan let out a deep sigh and he ushered Natalie and Lyra to follow.

"What a dopey motto..." Natalie said under her breath.

They reached another room, and a flight of stairs.

"I guess we'll split up..." Ethan whispered. Lyra and Natalie took the stairs and Ethan piled into the short hall that led to the room. He walked quietly inside.

Inside, a man in a brown suit and hat was sitting at a desk, his feet upon it leaning back.

"Well, everyone praise Team Rocket for their awesomeness...and let them go! This seems strange, but I am your Director, so just deal with it!" He turns off the radio he spoke into as he caught the eye of Ethan.

"Hmm?" The man stood up. "What are you doing in here, Rocket?" He spoke in a cracked voice.

"Uh, uh, I needed some...uh..." Ethan garbled.

"Eh?"

Ethan raised a brow...Something was familiar to him about the man.

"Um, sir, could you take off your hat?"

"Why should I do that, grunt?" The man shouted.

"Uh, Proton...asked you to?" Ethan was thinking that he couldn't believe he said that.

The man took of his hat slowly, but he tossed it sharply at Ethan. It knocked his hat off and Ethan's strip of long hair flung out of it as the hat flew ablaze off.

"Ahh!"

"Ah ha! You're the kid that battled me at the Rocket HQ!" The man bellowed.

Ethan grimaced. He then noticed the purple hair sticking out of the black wig again. "And you must be Petrel, the Disguise guy!" Ethan retorted.

Petrel raised a brow. He took off the wig and threw off the brown suit. "I suppose your eyes are as good as mine, this time!" Petrel buzzed.

Ethan tore off the Rocket uniform. "I guess so!" Ethan drew a pokeball. "But, it's gonna be different this time! I'm taking you down, Petrel!" Ethan sent out Typhlosion.

"Hmm...Come on out, Raticate!" Petrel sent out a small brown rat with large teeth. "It'll be the exact same result as last time...Raticate, Super Fang!"

Upstairs, in the room Natalie and Lyra appeared in, a red-haired woman and Proton standing at the back of the room.

"Ariana, has Archer received reply from Giovanni?" Proton asked the woman. She continued filing her nails.

"Nope. Absolutely nothing. I'm beginning to think this was all a waste..."

"How can you say that?" Proton barked. "Team Rocket will be reunited with Giovanni!"

"You make it sound like a relationship..." Ariana scoffed. She then noticed the grunts. "What are you two doing up here? We didn't allow grunts to come to this floor..."

"And I don't remember a brown haired and a blue haired grunt in the lineup..." Proton analyzed.

Natalie started to half-sweat. "Um, we just came because..."

Nataile was cut off by Ariana throwing her nail file. It pinned itself in the wall next to Natalie after slicing through a small section of her hair.

"Don't talk. You're intruders...Proton, go tell Archer!" Ariana ordered.

Proton took off up one more flight of stairs. Lyra grimaced and tore off her uniform. She dashed past Ariana and up the stairs after Proton.

Natalie ripped off her uniform and drew a Nest Ball. "Come on out, Flaaffy!" Natalie sent out her pink sheep. "Come on!"

Ariana sneered. "Fine! Arbok, let's go!" Ariana sent out a large cobra pokemon with eye markings on its body. "Get ready for the pain!"

Back in the Director's room...

"Raticate, Iron Tail!" Raticate whipped around.

"Typhlosion, block it!" Typhlosion put its arm up and took the hit, whapping back the rat. "Flamethrower!" Typhlosion engulfed it in a tornado of fire and sent it over the Director's desk. Petrel recalled it and scoffed.

"I suppose it may be different this time. Let's go, Weezing!" Petrel sent out the large lavender pokemon with two heads. "Use Poison Gas!"

"Typhlosion, use Smokescreen!" Typhlosion breathed a blue fume, while Weezing released the purple smoke bomb.

The two smokes whipped around together and finally canceled each other out.

"Typhlosion, Eruption!" Typhlosion's mane flared up and it released lava from its mouth. It enveloped Weezing and sent it sprawling over the ground in front of Petrel. "Nice new way of using it, Ty!"

"Return, Weezing...You've made me angry now...But since I'm a nice person, I'll tell you that the Director is in the deepest part of underground Goldenrod..."

"What? I have to tell Silver...do I have his number?" Ethan quickly turned on his PokeGear and scrolled through his numbers. After hope was almost lost, he found Silver's number, and called it.

Silver answered at last. "Silver! You underground?"

"Yeah...how'd you get my number?" He snapped.

"Silver, the Director is in the deepest part of the underground, you have to find him, please!" Ethan explains. Silver is silent for a minute, and then nods, turning off his PokeGear.

Petrel rolls his eyes and collapses into the chair behind the desk. "Probably won't help..." He pressed a button on the desk. The intercom for the building came on. "All Rocket Grunts report to the Director's Room..."

Ethan grimaced. Petrel smiled and waved at Ethan. A tidal wave of grunts swept in, to Ethan's dismay.

Upstairs...

"Flaaffy, Thunderbolt!" Flaaffy released a bolt of electricity. It blasted into Arbok, casing it to topple over Ariana. She recalled it immediately. As she stood up, her face exploded.

"YOU BROKE ONE OF MY NAILS!" She furiously shouted. "I will ELIMINATE you! Come out, Gloom!" A medium-sized teal colored pokemon with a flower bloom as a head came out. It was drooling a very nasty smelling saliva. "Gloom, Sludge Bomb!" Gloom spit balls of sludge at Flaaffy.

"Flaaffy, Thunder Wave!" Flaaffy sent a wave of electricity that sliced apart the sludge and protected Flaaffy. "Flaaffy, Quick Attack!" Flaaffy dashed towards Gloom and slammed into it. This one toppled into Ariana again. She recalled it and stood up, her face extremely red with anger.

"YOU BROKE ALL OF MY NAILS! FOR THIS YOU SHALL PAY!"

Underground...

Silver opens a door and shoves a box out of his way. "This is the last room..."

After moving a bunch of boxes out of his way, he sees a man in an Executive outfit standing in front of a figure tied on the floor.

He turns. "Hello. I didn't expect anyone," Khoury said. He was no longer a grunt. He was now an Executive.

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