Ch 48: Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light
May and Iris were near the end of a hallway facing a pair of rocket X crewmen. "Wartorle use rapid spin" May said. "Staryu use rapid spin" One of the two crewmen said. "Emolga use discharge" Iris said.
"Staryu use bubblebeam" The other crewman said. Emolga's discharge went right through the bubblebeam and hit the staryu on the right. Wartorle and the other staryu collided. Wartorle overpowered staryu and sent him flying back into his trainer.
"Who are these kids" One of the two crewmen said. "I don't know but we need backup" The other one said. The two crewmen returned their pokemon and ran down the hallway. Behind May and Iris was an elevator. May noticed that the crewmen that was hit with his staryu dropped something.
May picked it up and saw it was a map of the submarine. "Sweet it's a map of the submarine" May said. May looked over the map and saw there was a room on level A-6 called the evolution chamber. "evolution chamber? Wait Dr. Marrs said he studied evolution, maybe he's there" May said.
"The intruders are this way!" One of the crewmen shouted from down the hall. "I think they found some friends" Iris said. Iris quickly pressed the up button on the elevator and the door immediately opened. The two girls and their pokemon quickly got inside the elevator as a dozen rocket X crewmen and an operative dashed toward them.
Iris quickly pressed the close button as the operative sent out a pair of houndoom. "Flame thrower!" The operative said. The doors shut just in time to keep the fire out and the two girls let out relief breaths. "That was too close" Iris said.
"So explain to me again who this doctor Marrs is?" Iris asked. "Well Ash and I first met him in the Petalburg forest when rocket X first tried to capture him. Dr. Marrs is an evolution expert and rocket X wants him to help them force pokemon to evolve" May said. "That's horrible these creeps haven't changed at all have they" Iris said.
"Oh they have now they're much more competent" May said. "They weren't that incompetent when I faced them" Iris said. The elevator reached floor A-6 and the two girls slowly moved into the hallway with their pokemon. "We need to find room A-24" May said.
As they slowly moved forward they saw a pair of rocket X crewmen walking ahead of them. "I hear a few of the intruders might be on this level" The one on the left said. "If that's true then we better keep our eyes peeled" The other one said.
"Emolga use shockwave" Iris said. Emolga unleashed shockwave on the two crewmen knocking them both out. May and Iris continued down the hallway until they found room A-24. "This is it let's go" May said.
The room was massive, big enough to be a warehouse. The room format was similair to the other rooms except for a number of power generators on the walls that were connected to large black machines with clear glass tubes attacked to the tops.
"Well well well look who's here" A familiar voice said. On an upper walkway stood none other than meowth. "Oh there's the talking meowth I was afraid i'd never see you again" Iris said. Meowths face turned red and he backed up "Oh no it's that crazy twerp from Unova, the one who tried to catch me" Meowth said.
Standing next to meowth were 3 men in rocket X uniforms. Two were operatives the other was a very big man in an officer uniform. The man in the officer uniform was holding a man like a fireman would carry a wounded person.
When May looked closer she saw it was Dr. Marrs. "Ash was right they have doctor Marrs!" May said. Dr. Marrs was bound and gagged so he couldn't do anything but squirm. May and Iris also noticed that behind Meowth was one of the black machines. Inside the machines left tube was Red's pikachu.
"Pika!" Pikachu shouted ."Look it's Red's Pikachu!" May said. Meowth grinned "Not anymore", meowth pressed a few buttons on the machine and it the chamber started to glow. "What are you doing to him?!" Iris said. "I think I know" May said.
When the machine stopped and the light inside the tube faded they saw Red's pikachu had evolved into Riachu. "I knew that's what you creeps were doing. How dare you force pikachu to evolve like that" May said.
"Ha we did him a favor" Meowth said. He took tube off the machine and carried it into the next part of the room with the man holding Dr. Marrs walking beside him. "Take care of them boys" The officer said.
The two rocket X operatives jumped down and both took out a pair of pokeballs. Four houndoom came out from the pokeballs and growled at the girls. "So you wanna fight ok, Haxorous let's show them what your made of" Iris said. Iris sent out her haxorous at the same time May sent out her Blaziken.
"Houndoom use flamethrower" Both operatives said. "Haxorous use dragon claw" Iris said. "Blaziken use lowsweep" May said. Blaziken went low avoiding the flamethower and impacting the left houndoom. Meanwhile Haxorous's dragon claw went right through the flamethrower and hit the right houndoom.
The two houndoom hit were knocked out. "Houndoom use fireblast" The two operatives said to their remaining houndoom. "Wartorle use hydropump" May said. Wartorle unleashed hydro pump which extinguished the fireblasts and knocked out one of the two houndoom.
"Emolga use discharge" Iris said. With the fire clear emolga was able to unleash her electric attack with ease. The discharge not only knocked out the last houndoom it also knocked the two operatives unconsious.
"Alright let's go save Dr. Marrs and Riachu" May said. In the next part of the room Meowth and Vlad were waiting by one of the evolution machines. Riachu was trying to break out of the glass tube but the tube was reinforced with fiber glass.
"Keep trying big guy you're never going to break out" Meowth said. "Commander I think those girls beat our men" Vlad said. Then they outnumber us in terms of pokemon and I'm not strong enough to fight all of them either" Meowth said. Meowth looked back at the machine and grinned. "Or maybe I am" He said.
May and Iris rushed into the next part of the room with their pokemon beside them. "Where are you? Stop hiding" May said. "Whose hiding" Vlad said. Vlad had a pair of gengar out beside him. "He's not alone either" A familiar voice said.
May and Iris saw standing next to Vlad was a persian standing on two legs like meowth. "Is that?" Iris said. "That's right it's me" Persian said. "It is an honor to fight beisde you commander" Vlad said. "Let's get them" Persian said.
"Gengar use shadow ball" Vlad said. Both gengar unleashed shadow ball at Iris's and May's pokemon. "Quick dodge and use dragon rage " Iris said. Haxorous narrowly avoided the two shadow balls and unleashed dragon rage back at the gengar.
"Gengar dodge and use shadow punch" Vlad said. The gengar quickly dodged and ran toward emolga with incredible speed. When close enough they both unleashed shadow punch. "Emolga!" Iris said. "Quick blaziken get them off her with firespin" May said. Blaziken unleashed firespin which hit the two gengar knocking them away from emolga.
Just as emolga started to get up when persian unleashed power gem knocking emolga out. "Emolga return" Iris said not wanting her pokemon to get hurt. "Wartorle use water pulse" May said. "Haxorous use hyper beam" Iris said.
Persian ran in front of the two gengar and used protect which absorbed the two attacks compltetly. Persian grinned , "Good now use shadow ball" Vlad said. The two gengar unleashed shadow ball while persian used thunderbolt. The shadow balls hit haxorous and blaziken while the thunderbolt hit wartorltle.
"I don't know why I ever hated persians, this is magnificient" Persian said. "Wartorle use blizzard quick" May said. "Dodge!" Vlad shouted. Persian managed to avoid the blizzard but both gengar were hit by the bittercold.
"Now blaziken use blazekick" May said. Blaziken ran up with increidble speed and knocked out one of the two gengar. Vlad returned the gengar and turned back to May "Gengar use confuse ray". Gengar opened his mouth and let out a red spinning light that hit blaziken.
Blaziken stumbled around while his eyes turned swirly. "Oh no" May said. She returned blaziken before he could hurt himself in confusion. " Nice work" Persian said. Persian used giga impact and hit both haxerous and wartorle.
The turtle and dragon were knocked back into a wall. "Good now finnish them with Hyper beam" Vlad said. Gengar gathered up his strength then unleashed hyperbeam. "Wartorle quick use hydro pump!" May said.
Wartortle unleashed hydro pump which hit the hyperbeam and struggled for a minute. Eventually the hyperbeam gave way and the hydro pump hit gengar knocking him out. "Haxorous use dragon pulse" Iris said.
Persian avoided the dragon pulse and unleashed swift at wartorle. "Wartorle use iron defense and then water pulse" May said. Wartorle hardened into a iron defense and the swift stars bounced off him. He unleashed water pulse at persian but he threw up another protect.
"It's gonna take more than that to beat me" Persian said. "Haxorous use dragon claw" Iris said. Haxorous ran at persian with his left claw glowing violet. Persian jumped back narrowly avoiding the dragon claw. "Missed" He said. "Haxorous dragon rage!" Iris said.
Haxorous opened his mouth and unleashed dragon rage at close range. A dragon shaped blast of violet dragon power hit persian and hurled him into a wall. "Ouch" Persian said before he dropped to the ground from the wall. "Perfect, now go pokeball" Iris said.
She threw a pokeball that hit persian and sent him inside. "What!?" Both Vlad and May said. The pokeball thrashed and moved with persian trying to escape. After a minute the thrashing stopped and the pokeball shined. "Yes I caught my talking persian" Iris said.
"You caught team rockets' Meowth, or persian!?" May said. "No commander!" Vlad said. Haxorous picked up the pokeball and tossed it back to Iris. Haxorous turned to Vlad and held up his left claw. May and wartorle rushed over to Dr. Marrs who was still tied up and gagged behind Vlad.
"Dr. Marrs finnaly" May said as she took his gag off. "May I can't believe you're here to save me. How could you do something so dangerous" Mr. Marrs said. "Oh please I've been in worse situations" May said. Iris came over to help May and wartortle untie Dr. Marrs. "Rocket X has my sister here too , we can't leave without her" Dr. Marrs said.
Vlad smiled "You're not leaving at at" He said. The door opened and a rocket X operative with two crewmen behind him ran in. The operative sent out two houndoom and the crewmen each sent out a staryu. Each of the rocket X members had a gun in hand.
Riachu continued to bash at the fiberglass and finally broke free. He jumped out and shouted "Ria chu!" as he unleashed thunder. The blast hit the three rocket X men and their pokemon knocking them all out.
Vlad returned his unconscious gengar then ran out of the room. Riachu walked over to May and Iris. "Well we rescued Dr. Marrs and pikachu" Iris said. "Not Pikachu anymore" May said. Riachu suddenly seemed very sad. "Is he ok?" Iris said. "I think I get it, Riachu is afraid that now that he's evolved his relationship with Red will be different" May said.
Ash and Red were searching the ship trying to find Jessie and James. They made their way to the submarines helm and were now battling a pair of crewmen with operative. "Venusaur use razor leaf" Red said. Venusaur unleashed hundreds of sharp leaves at the two staryu knocking them out. " Houndoom use fireblast" The operative said.
Both houndoom unleashed bursts of fire at pikachu. "Pikachu dodge and use fusion bolt" Ash said. Pikachu ran forward with incredible speed and avoided the two fireblasts. When he reached the houndoom he glow blue and unleashed fusion bolt knocking the two houndoom out.
The blast of electricity didn't just knock out the houndoom, they also hit the three rocket X men and some of the ships controls. There was a sharp alarm like sound followed by flashing red lights. "What did we just do?" Ash said.
Suddenly the submarine rocket almost knocking Ash and Red off their feet. "Look!" Red said. Ash looked through the glass and saw the submarine was surfacing. "We just surfaced" Ash said. After the submarine surfaced completely the door behind Ash and Red opened. Three rocket X operatives ran in with their houndooms out. "Fireblast!" One of them said.
"Look out!" Red said. Ash and Pikachu both moved out of the way just in time. The two fireblasts hit the front of the helm and creating a gaping hole. The door to the helm opened again with a dozen crewmen rushing in. "Ok time to fall back" Ash said.
Red returned venasaur while Pikachu jumped onto Ash's shoulder. Ash and Red then quickly went out through the hole the houndoom made and onto the main deck. After making it halfway across the deck several hatched opened and rocket X members poured onto the deck.
"We're surrounded" Red said. "Well look who's here, didn't your mommies tell you it's rude to enter someone's home uninvited" A familiar voice said. Ash and Red turned to see Jessie and James made their way to the front of the crowd.
"Twerp one and his clone, how nice" James said. "We're so glad you could come here to our humble home" Jessie said. "Where's my Pikachu!" Red said. "You'll find out soon enough" Jessie said. "Now hand over all of your pokemon and we might let you live" James said.
"I'm not giving you my pokemon!" Ash said. "Are you really in a place to say that" Jessie said. "Ash what do we do now?" Red said. "I'm thinking" Ash said. Pikachu heard something in the distance and then turned towards it. When he saw what it was he smiled. "Pika!" He said.
Ash and Red looked up to see a team aqua helicopter flying toward them. "What the!?" Jessie said. Another ten team aqua helicopters rushed into position above the submarine. "Bravo-three , this is posiden we're in position" A team aqua pilot said.
"Copy that Poseidon move in" The captain of the Gyrados said. rappelling ropes dropped down from the helicopters allowing team aqua mercenaries to rush onto the deck sending out Mightyena and crawdaunt.
At first the Rocket X members started to scramble until Jessie and James rallied them. "Don't run you cowards fight!" Jessie yelled. A feirce melee between team aqua mercenaries and the rocket X memebers broke out on the deck of the submarine.
Ash and Red quickly moved around trying to find Jessie and James. After nearly ten minutes they found them at the end of the deck. "Where is my Pikachu!" Red screamed. "I am sick and tired of you twerps messing up everything we ever do right!" Jessie said.
"This time we're going to put you down for good!" James said. They threw their pokeballs releasing Nidoqueen and machamp. "Charizard go!" Red said. He threw a pokeball out and released his massive charizard. "Pikachu go" Ash said.
Pikachu jumped down from Ash's shoulder and beside Red's charizard. "Nidoqueen use sludgeball" Jessie said. "Machamp use cross chop" James said. "Pikachu dodge and use thunderbolt" Ash said. "Charizard use dragon claw" Red said.
Pikachu quickly moved out of the way avoiding Nidoqueen's attack then blasted her with electricity. Charizard and machamp clashed with all their might but charizard overpowered machamp and knocked him back.
"Nidoqueen use double team" Jessie said. Nidoqueen quickly made doubles of herself and surrounded pikachu. "Now use poison sting" Jessie said. "Machamp use dynamic punch" James said. "Charizard use fire punch" Red said. "Pikachu move!" Ash said.
Pikachu tried to avoid the poision sting but the he couldn't tell which was the real nidoqueen and he was hit. Charizard's left hand caught on fire and he swung it at Machamp. Machamp grabbed both of charizard's arms and then used dynamic punch with his other two arms.
"Nidoqueen use body slam" Jessie said. "Machamp use karate chop" James said. " Charizard use wing attack" Red said. "Pikachu dodge and use thunder" Ash said. Pikachu quickly moved avoiding the body slam and then blasted nidoqueen with thunder. Charizard flew up and hit machamp with wing attack hurling him back into nideoqueen.
"Nidoqueen use blizzard" Jessie said. "Machamp use low kick" James said. "Pikachu use thunderbolt" Ash said. "Charizard use flamethrower" Red said. Nidoqueen moved out of the way avoiding pikachu's attack then unleashed blizzard. Machamp went in low narrowly avoiding the fire and hit charizard.
"Charizard we're fighting for Pikachu remember that" Red said. "Nidoqueen venoshock" Jessie said. "Pikachu use voltackle" Ash said. "Machamp use submission" James said. "Charizard use seismic toss" Red said. PIkachu covered himself with electricity and ran right at Nideo queen as she unleashed venoshock.
Pikachu was hit but with the power of the voltackle he endured and hit nidoqueen with votltackle making her stumble. "Now use iron tail" Ash said. PIkachu jumped up and bashed nidoqueen across the face with iron tail which knocked her our.
Machamp and Charizard collided both trying to overpower the other. Eventually Charizard gained some leverage and then took off with machamp in his arms. After charizard passed some of team aqua's helicopters he flew straight down with machamp in front of him. When they hit the deck of the sub they dented the top so much it almost broke through.
Jessie and James returned their pokemon then looked around to see their forces were loosing badly. "I think it's time team rocket blasted off one last time" Jessie said. She took out a white ball and hurled it onto the deck. A massive cloud of white dust filled the air around them.
"I can't see" Ash said. "Charizard use your wings to blow the dust away" Red said. After charizard blew the dust away Jessie and James were both gone. "No they're gone!" Red said. It took team aqua another forty minutes to secure the submarine completely.
Ash and Red were talking with one of the team aqua officers. "Still no sign of any of the commanders?" The officer said. "No sir we're gone through the entire sub" One of the aqua mercenaries said. "Dam, well I suppose it doesn't matter 'll never recover from a loss like this" The officer said.
"Hey guys look who I found" Max said. Ash and Red turned to see Max with an older woman who looked kind of like Dr. Marrs. "This is Alaina Marrs. Dr. Marrs's sister" Max said. "Well nice work Max. Blastoise return" Red said as he returned blastoise. "But where is my Pikachu?" Red said.
"Ash, Red you're both ok" May said. May, Iris, and Dr. Marrs walked onto the main deck. "Dr. Marrs there you are good to see you're ok" The officer said. "Glad to be free" Dr. Marrs said. "And I've got a brand new little friend" Iris said holding a pokeball. "A new friend?" Ash said.
"She caught team rocket's meowth, well he's a persian now" May whisped in Ash's ear. "She did?!" Ash said dumbstruck. "What about my Pikachu did you guys find him?" Red said. "Well we did, but the thing is Rocket X put him in a machine that well" May started.
"Riachu" Red heard, he turned around and saw a riachu standing behind him. "Is that?" He started. "Yes" Iris said. Red didn't say anything he just looked at Riachu. Riachu was now both scared and very sad. Red smiled and hugged Riachu. "I'm just glad your safe, I don't care if you're a riachu you're still my best friend" Red said.
"Aww isn't that sweet" Iris said. Red lifted Riachu up into his arms "Well I guess this means it's all over" Max said. "Jessie and James got away" Ash said. "True but they're not a threat anymore. Come one let's get back to the Gyrados we'll take you to Ever Grande city" The team aqua officer said.
Miles away a Gyrados and a Milotic swam close to a shoreline each with four people on their back. James sat at the front of his Gyrados with Vlad and two other rocket X operatives behind him. Jessie sat at the front of her Milotic with a rocket X crewmen, an field agent, and an officer behind her.
"What do we do now we've lost everything" One of the operatives said. "It's true rocket X is finished" James said. The Gyrados and Milotic stopped when they reached a shoreline. "Lucky for us we hid all of our organizations money in special offshore accounts" Jessie said.
"How much?" Vlad said. "Since there are only eight of us left enough for us all to live happily ever after" James said. On the beach James took out a briefcase and handed the crewman an account number with two million dollars in it. He handed the operatives account numbers with two and a half million dollars each. He handed the field agent and officers including Vlad accounts with three million dollars each.
"Well it's been a pleasure working with you all" Vlad said. "Have a nice life" Jessie said. After the six left Jessie and James both took the last two account numbers. "Lucky for us we get the big pot. One billion dollars each of us" James said. "I'd say we have a bright future ahead of us" Jessie said. "I suppose we do" James said.
