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::The second chapter of Saving the One I Love::
The door closed behind Ash and the room was once again silent "oh this is certainly a new approach," a male voice whispered in the dark and still room.
"Sometimes you just have to play dirty, besides, if we don't get any Pokemon soon you know that the boss will kick us out of Team Rocket and might even turn us in" a female voice whispered sharply.
"Will you two shut-up, we don't want to wake her" the Meowth said sharply and the two humans immediately began to creep towards the bed where Misty lay asleep. The woman, Jesse held rope in her hands. The male, James carried a bandana, Meowth held a bottle and note. The three got prepared but just as the woman was getting ready to wrap the rope Mistys eyes shot open and her attention caught Team Rocket by surprise. Misty rolled out of the bed in order to avoid getting caught and landed on the opposite side. She let out a small scream when her wounded leg slammed against the leg of the bed on the other side but James quickly slammed his hands down.
He smiled at her "sorry, no time for introductions" he said and Meowth ran towards her removing the lid of the bottle as he came up to the girl.
Misty didn't wait to see what the bottle contained, she bit James's hand and kicked Meowth away from her. Sending him into a small stand, papers slowly fluttered down and he growled in irritation. Misty kicked James who jumped up from surprise holding his bitten hand in pain. She got up and took a troubled step backwards "Team Rocket, what are you doing here?" she growled cursing the fact that she didn't have her pokeballs with her.
"We're here to get Pikachu of course" they said in unison and reached out to grab her. Misty turned to run but her leg locked and she fell over face first. "Night" the team said and the bottle Meowth was holding was opened. Misty tried not to inhale whatever it was but the stench was to strong and in an instant Misty fell limp. "Alright, Phase 1 complete" Meowth said with a grin as Jesse tied Misty's wrists behind her back. Testing to make sure the ropes were tight enough, James picked up Misty and Team Rocket slowly snuck out of the room and towards their Meowth air balloon.
"This is so exciting" James said as he took Jesse's hands in his own. The two looked at each other, "to think, we may finally have found a way to capture Pikachu."
"He'll surely be ours by dawn" Jesse said.
"Team Rocket always gets their Pokemon" the two said in unison.
"And not only that, but the boss will surely reward us for doing such an outstanding job," Meowth said imagining himself once more in the boss's lap being petted. Leaving the Persian to walk pitifully in the shadows alone and worthless. He snickered at the thought. The balloon slowly headed towards a large airship with a meowth image on it.
Walking towards the control room they placed the unconscious Misty on a chair and tied her. Wrists wrapped behind the chair, and legs together. After they finished it up, Meowth pulled a lever and a large cage fell down around the red head. Finally the trio left chatting about how perfect things would be from now on.
Misty woke up with a groan, there was a shot in her head and she screamed out. She tried to reach her head but realized she was bound by ropes and confined in a cage. "What is going on?" she asked looking around trying to remember last night.
"So, the princess awakens," a voice caught Mistys ear and she saw Team Rocket standing before her outside of her cage.
"What else, another plan to obtain Pikachu of course," Jesse said answering Mistys' question.
"And you get to be the bait," Meowth said with a snicker.
Misty growled "you good for nothing low lives," she spat at them, "no matter what, Ash will never surrender Pikachu to you" she stated.
"Jesse, I think you tied the ropes to tightly," James said suddenly, "look at her leg." James pointed at Misty's right leg, the wound was bleeding and the dressing for Mistys wound hadn't been changed. The bandage was red and a small gush of blood was trying to leak out of the wraps.
The trio looked at each other before huddling together. Misty fought the pain in her leg, she had a feeling that it was because of her wound she had been captured. Oh, if only I could remember last night she thought. Ash, Brock, Pikachu, what am I supposed to do? She thought
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"We really should change the bandage before she receives some sort of infection" James said.
"If we change the wounds though, she could escape," Meowth pointed out.
"It will be hard for her to run though, she is still strapped to the chair," Jesse said. The three froze and thought, James disgusted at the thought of any infection, Meowth on ways she could escape, and Jesse thinking about having Pikachu in their hands at last.
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Misty closed her eyes and bit her lip trying to fight the pain, she moved and twisted her legs as if that would stop the pain seeping through her body. Team Rocket had made a sudden run only a few moments ago and she wasn't about to show them fear or pain when they got back. She had to think of an escape plan. Nothing came to her mind, Misty sighed she hated admitting it but she really did need Ash and Brock with her. She needed their help.
She heard footsteps and looked over to see James walking towards the cage, Misty watched with interest as the cage began to rise and looked over to see Meowth let go of the lever and walk into the control room. She focused her eyes as James began to walk towards her. "Such fierce eyes," he said, "ah don't worry, I'm not here to hurt you." He wore a white doctors mask and then pulled out a small package, he pulled out a small can with an image of Gloom on it. "Don't worry, just leave everything to us" he said with a cheerful voice; before Misty could respond in any way her vision began to blur and soon everything went black once again.
"Misty" Ash called running through the room throwing things aside as if he were playing a hide-and-seek game with the girl. "Misty where are you?" he yelled looking under the bed; he threw papers and pushed aside carts, "Misty" he said his voice shaky.
"Pokemon Centers normally don't have alarm systems since a trainer or breeder could appear at any moment in time. There is always someone near the desk or checking the center," Nurse Joy explained to Brock.
"That' almost like asking for the pokemon to be stolen!" Ash yelled Pikachu jumping on his shoulder trying to calm him down.
Nurse Joy looked at Ash and looked around "isn't there any way you could find some sort of hint to where Misty could have gone?" Brock asked, "hidden camera's maybe?"
"No, hidden camera's are still being talked about among the board, they don't understand the danger but no one has ever really tried to steal from a Center before, this is actually the first time someone has been taken." She looked around, "the only way one could get in here is through the door or the windows, and the window only seems to have a small crack" she walked over and looked at the window, "it's possible that they realized how much noise they would make by breaking the glass" Joy let out a sigh, "we will have to take this matter up with the police," with that Nurse Joy left the room.
"Ash, you went and visited Misty last night didn't you?" Brock asked suddenly remembering the boys' supposed-to-be-secret visit, "did you see anything strange when you were there?"
Normally Ash would stand tall and refuse the fact that he had gone to visit but in this case he wasn't going to lie. "No, there wasn't anything strange, it just seemed like another night" he said.
Pikachu ran back into the room where Misty had been and once again began to sniff around. "Of course, good idea Pikachu" Brock said pulling out some of his pokeballs, after the release of his Vulpix, Geodude, he looked over at Ash. "We may not be able to get anything but our Pokemon may" he smiled when Ash released close to all of his pokemon and told them the story and asking for their help.
"Let's help Brock" Ash said and like before continued to find any other even simple clue that would explain Mistys disappearance.