CH 19: Familiar faces

The S.S Kathie was still en rout to Slateport city early in the morning. May awoke and yawned, she looked around but Ash wasn't in the room. She got up and saw a note on the nightstand between the two beds. "Went down to training room" it said.

Down in the training room Ash was doing push up while his pokemon were each doing a different form of excersize. Pikachu and squirtle were practicing evading with crawdaunt using bubble beam at them. Garchomp used dragon claw on a large piece of metal set up to test powerful moves like that. He slashed through the metal completely.

He turned to croconaw "Gar chomp" he said bragging about his strength. Croconaw saw another piece of metal and used superpower on it breaking it into two pieces. "Croconaw!" Croconaw said back. The two growled and prepared to fight each other. Ash got up sweaty from the push ups and said, "Alright guys your both very powerful no fighting" Ash said.

The two turned their backs on each other. Ash returned his pokemon then wiped his face off with a towel. The door to the training room opened and May walked inside. "May" Ash said, "Why didn't you wake me I would have come down here with you" May said. "I figured you would have wanted to sleep after your contest yesterday" Ash said.

"Well I'm full of energy now and I'm not alone" May said. Ash saw Max was behind her. "Come on May I want to go back to sleep" Max said. "Max you'll never be a good trainer with that attitude" May said. Max's treeco and ralts were with May's pokemon as the May and Max practices kick boxing. Max was barley able to breath "Come on may "breath" you made me do this back home now here too" "Max your getting soft on me" May said.

While they did their workout Ash was studying his self defense guide. The self defense was known as Cartol. It was a system of using body strength and your opponent's energy against them. This self defense was used by the Sinnoh navy and the Kanto air force. Not only that but some pokemon trainers had even taught it to their fighting types. "Pikachu I don't have many fighting types do I" Ash said.

"Pika pika" pikachu said shaking his head. "I probably should try and catch one, and there is a fighting type I have always wanted" Ash said. He thought back to when he lost pikachu in the tree of beginning. The one pokemon he felt a strong connection with and helped him rescue pikachu, Lucario.

After May and Max finneshed the three of them went to check on Dr. Marrs. Marrs was in a recreation room with two assistants and a man in a suit. The room wasn't very large but was set up with a few tables with Dr. Marrs research on them. Dr. Marrs saw Ash and May, "Oh there they are. Mr. Sall these are the two who saved me in the Petalburg forest" Marrs said.

The man in the suit was very tall and strong built. He had black hair and blue eyes with a tatto on the base of his neck. The tatto was the symbol of the Hoenn army. "So your Ash and May pleasure to meet you" Mr. Sall said extending his arm.

Ash shook it "Nice to meet you too" Ash said. "Mr. Sall is the owner of a medical research company. It's his company that makes the most potent potions and antidotes" Dr. Marrs said. "It has always been a goal of mine to help pokemon, I was a veterinarian back in the army tending to any wounded or sick pokemon the army used" Mr. Sall said.

"Dr. Marrs research could change the world as we know it. Any wound or illness a pokemon is afflicted with could be saved" Mr. Sall said. "That sounds like a noble goal" Max said. Suddenly they felt the ship shake. "What was that?" Ash said. The ship shook again, "Let's find out what's going on" Mr. Sall said.
"I'll stay here, me and the interns will make sure the research stays safe" Dr. Marrs said. The group ran up to the main deck. Dozens of other passengers and crewmen had also come to see what was going on. "Look what's that!" a passenger said.

On the side railing a pair of grappling hooks were launched onto the side of the ship. On both sides of the ship there was a speedboat that had launched the grappling hooks. "What's going on!?" a coordinator said.

A rocket X agent climbed up from each grappling hook. "It's rocket X!" Ash said. Two of the operatives sent out a pair of houndoom. One of the others sent out a pair of cacturnes and the last one sent out two machokes. There was a desperate panic among the passengers and crewmen as they tried to get away.

"Wow I can't beleive none of these coordinators are staying to confront them" Max said. "Max Rocket X isn't like the old team rocket these guys are actually good" Ash said. "Well the ships security should be here soon but we should try and help too" Mr. Sall said. "Go Aggron , Charizard" He said throwing two pokeballs. "Ok Go Garchomp"Ash said sending out the massive dragon.

"Blazeakin and Venusaur" May said. "Go Treeco and Ralts" Max said. Ash and went at two of the rocket X operatives. "Houndoom use flamethrower and beat up" The first operative said. "Machoke karate choke and dynamic punch" The second one. "Aggron use protect Charizard use fireblast" Mr. Sall said.

"Garchomp use dragon rush, Pikachu use thunder" Ash said. Pikachu and Garchomp avoided the flamethrower and beat up then retaliated with their own moves hitting the two houndoom. Aggron's protect absorbed the two physical attacks from the machoke before Charizard blasted them both with a massive fireblast.

Elsewhere May and Max were facing off against the other rocket X operatives. "Cacturne use pin missile and giga impact" The first operative said. "Houndoom use hyperbeam and inferno" The second opertive said.

"Quick Blazeakin dodge and use blazekick, Venasaur use solarbeam" May said. Because it was so sunny out Venusaur was able to use solarbeam instantly. The solarbeam and hyperbeam impacted canceling eachother out. Blazeakin avoided the pin missile and then delivered a powerful fireykick at the carturne.

"Venasaur use double edge" May said. Her venusaur charged at the first houndoom and impacted it. "Quick ralts use psychic and treeco use bulletseed" Max said. Ralts tried to catch cacturne but he wasn't strong enough and was knocked out cold by the giga impact.

Treeco's bulletseed was overpowered by pinmissle and he too was knocked out. "Oh no!" Max said. He returned his pokemon "May both my pokemon are out" Max said. "Guys we need some help overhere!" May said.

Just then several security gaurds rushed out onto the deck. "Stand down!" The lead security gaurd said. "Houndoom use fireblast" one of the operatives said. The houndoom fired a powerful burst of fire at the security guards.

"These guys are crazy take them down" The lead guard said. Each of the security guards sent out a growlithe. "Sandstorm"One of the operatives with the cacturne said. The cacturne made vision very bad.

Ash and then heard what sounded like a helicopter. "Is that a helicopter?" Ash said. Above the deck a black helicopter witha rocket X symbol on it let down a pair of ropes and deployed a pair of rocket X operatives who each send out a swampert.

"Hydropump on those growlithe" They said. The two swampert blasted all of the security growlithe. "Oh no our pokemon are all knocked out" One of the guards said. "Oh great now the security guards are out" Mr. Sall said.

When the security gaurds returned their pokemon the helicopter came down directly over the deck and 3 people stepped onto the deck. A feeling of horror ran down Ash's spine as he saw who it was. "No it can't be" He said.

"Prepare for trouble" "And Make it double" . May heard this and turned to the rocket X members. "Oh no that can't be them" May said. "To protect the world from devestation" "To unite all peoples within our nation" "To denounce the evils of truth and love" "To extend our reach to the stars above" "Jessie" "James" "Rocket X blast of at the speed of light" "Surrender now or prepare to fight" "Meowth that's right".

"Well well well Jessie look whose here" James said. "It looks like we meet again twirps" Jessie said. "I don't believe it after all this time you still want to steal pikachu" Ash said. "Ha, you little idiot you think we still care about your little pikachu" Meowth said. Jessie and James's uniforms were different than the operatives. The R's were red and the X's were gold.

"You see after the last team rocket collapsed we took a good look at ourselves" James said. "We caught ourselves some real pokemon and founded our own team rocket" Jessie said. "Besides we're not here for you" Meowth said.

"Oh no they want Dr. Marrs" Mr. Sall said. "Indeed, go Machamp" James said. "Alright Go NidoQueen" Jessie said. "They have a machamp and Nidoqueen!" Max said. Their pokemon came down onto the deck. Meowth came down behind them "I got this go and get the Dr." he said.

James threw out a smokeball causing a temporary smokescreen. When the smoke vanished Jessie and James as well as the two operatives with the swampert were gone. "Alrigh Nidoqueen use poisonsting and Machamp use dynamic punch" Meowth said.

May's Venusaur was hit with poison sting and Garchomp was hit with Dynamic punch. "Quick Garchomp use dragonclaw" Ash said. "Venusaur use bodyslam" May said. "Nidoqueen use doublekick, machamp use seismic toss" Meowth said.

Nidoqueen evaded venusaur and kicked him in the head. Machamp grabbed Garchomp as he came at him then jumped into the air and smashed Garchomp into the ground. "Wow Meowth is actually pretty good" May said. "Pikachu use quick attack on meowth" Ash said.

PIkachu ran at Meowth who dodged the attack then smashed Pikachu with iron tail. "Gotcha sucker" Meowth said. Pikachu tried again but Meowth kept doudgeing the attacks then used furry swipes on Pikachu. "Look i'm not the samelittle looser I was 5 years ago" Meowth said.

Meowth then used thunderbolt on pikachu. "You don't know how good that feels" Meowth said. Inside the ship Jessie and James were walking down the hallway with their operatives. A pair of security guards confronted them with two growlithe. "Growlithe use ember" The security guards said.

"Swampert use hydro pump" One of the operatives said. The first swampert blasted both growlithe with a jet of water and knocked them both out. "Retreat!" The second security shouted after they returned their growlithe.

Jessie and James reached Dr. Marrs's recreation room where they saw him and his assistants trying to pack up their research. "Dr. Marrs we meet at last" Jessie said. Dr. Marrs turned and was now terrified. "You!" He said. "That's right" James said. James went over and grabbed Dr. Marrs and threw him to the ground.

The two operatives put handcuffs on Dr. Marrs. James grabbed Dr. Marrs and pulled him up and held him in place. "Get the research quick" Jessie said. After a minut James was contacted by one of his operatives. " Sir we've got a problem, the security staff called for help. Our chopper saw a group of military units heading our way" The operative said.

"Get what research we can we're pulling out now" James said. Back on the main deck Mr. Sall's Charizard and Aggron both used megapunch on one of the cacturnes and houndooms knocking them out. "Nidoqueen use double edge , and machamp use dynamic punch" Meowth said.

"Venusaur use frenzy plant" May said. "Garchomp use dragon rush" Ash said. Venusaur's frenzy plant grabbed nidoqueen and slammed her into the deck. Garchomp and Machamp collided but Garchomp overpowered Machamp and knocked him back. "Pikachu use voltackle " Ash said.

Pikachu charged up then ran at Meowth. Meowth tried to avoid the attack but was hit and hurled back. "There's somthing I haven't missed" Meowth said. Jessie and James appeared above meowth. "Meowth get up we're leaving" Jessie said.

The two returned Nidoqueen and Machamp before boarding in their helicopter with meowth. In a matter of minutes all of the rocket X operatives had also retreated. Not long after Rocket X had retreated several other helicopters flew over the deck.

These helicopters were blue and black and had the insigia of team aqua on them. "You've got to be kidding me, team aqua" Ash said. "It's alright kid , team aqua isn't a criminal organization anymore. Team aqua is now a private military company working for the hoenn government" Mr. Sall said.

"They are?" Ash said. The helicopters let out teams of team aqua mercenaries. The aqua soldiers looked alot different than they use to. These team aqua members uniform were blue and black cameo. Each one was had a pair of pokeballs on their belt and an M4 colt commando on their backs.

One of the aqua soldiers approached Ash and the others. He was tall and muscular with blonde graying hair and brown eyes. There was a captain symbol on his uniform "Are you people alright?" He asked. "We're fine, My name is Jason Sall those people kidnapped one of my scientists" Mr. Sall said.

"I'm captian Felts i'm incharge of this team I need to know how many there were" Felts said. "There were 8 of them. Their leaders are named" May started. "Jessie and James, they were here and got away fantastic" Felts said. "Felts to Dravern do you still have that chopper?" He said to one of his pilots over a radio.

"Negative sir they lost us" Leitanant Dravern said. "Alright I need to have a word with the captain and the security cheif" Felts said. He and his soldiers walked off, "I can't believe they took Dr. Marrs" Max said.

"Max we should get your pokem to the center" May said. Her and Max walked off while Ash and Mr. Sall stayed on the main deck. " So what happens now?" Ash said. "Well I'm going to help Max get to his next gym then I'm going to see if I can help team aqua find Dr. Marrs" Mr. Sall said.

Elesewhere deep under the ocean was Rocket X's submarine. Inside James, Jessie, and Meowth were alone in a room with Dr. Marrs who was chained down to a chair. "Dr. Marrs your research on pokemon evolution is most interesting" James said. "I know what you want, you want me to help you force pokemon to evolve on demand" Dr. Marrs said.

"Do you realize what people would pay to have their pokemon evolve on demand" Meowth said. "Besides our scienstists are already scouring your stolen research" Jessie said. "That research is incomplete you'll never do it without me and I will never help you" Dr. Marrs said.

"Very well, looks like we'll just have to persuade you otherwise" James said. The three walked out and another man walked in. His rocket X uniform was slightly different then the others. The man was very tall and brutish looking. He was bald with blue eyes and several scars on his face.

"Good evening Dr. Marrs. My name is Vladimir, I was once part of the Sinnoh army until I was dishonorably discharged for prisoner torture" He said. Vlad took out a pokeball and sent out a gengar. "Gengar use hypnosis" Vlad said. Dr. Marrs was put to sleep, "good good, now use dream eater" Vlad said.