"Everyone, this is Danny Griffin. He's part of Team Rocket but now he's joining the Gang Reduction and Extermination Squad to help us from the inside." Steve said to his four team members. There were two that Danny didn't recognise.
"GRES." Danny said "It's not the most catchy of names but I guess it'll do."
The man on the far right had grey spiky hair and he extended his hand to Danny. "I'm Professor Oak - if you didn't know that already." Oak added to the end and sighed. Next was Abbie but he had already known those two. It was the other two people who were new to him.
"I'm Thomas, but you can call me Tom. I'm more of a field type of agent" One of them said. He was about the same height as Danny and had blonde hair. He looked strong.
"Nice to meet you Tom." Danny replied, trying to be polite, but it was something he'd never quite got the hang of.
"And I'm Jack. I do all of the technological aspects that must be undertaken." Danny must have looked at him blankly because he quickly added "I'm a techy." Jack looked like a stereotypical nerd in Danny's mind. He was short and wore big framed glasses. It was almost as if he was trying to make himself look like a nerd.
"So all introductions sorted," said Steve looking at his new team of five positively. "Danny, have you got an idea of how to get Abbie into Team Rocket?"
"Well, it should be fairly easy," Danny said "She just has to do some small scale stealing in places with CCTV cameras. The Team Rocket executives will see her and will bring her in for some testing. You just have to make sure that there is no evidence to show that she could work against Team Rocket. The tiniest shred of information that may swing her against Team Rocket and they will not test her. If she does get in then she can always come to me for help. She probably won't be able to bring any equipment with her but I won't be checked on my entry to our base so I could smuggle some in."
"Oh, equipment!" Jack shouted out suddenly and softly slapped himself. "I forgot to give you some equipment Danny."
"Um... OK..." Danny stuttered.
"You can give him some if he's done explaining." Frank said.
"Yeah, alright then. Equip me." Danny said to Jack who walked briskly down to the basement whilst Danny followed.
"This is your new car, the F-Type Jaguar. Of course it's not the best of cars but we made a few adjustments."
"Whoa," Danny breathed, as he stared at his first ever car. It was red and had a symbol of a leaping jaguar on it. This was the car of his dreams. "That is beautiful."
"Obviously, it's an automatic because you've never driven before." Jack said in a matter of fact tone. "Next up, we have your standard bulletproof vest, it adjusts itself to your body and blends in with your skin tone, so it's practically invisible and it won't worsen your flexibility."
"There's no way that will stop a bullet."
"It softens the blow so it turns from a killing shot to a badly injuring shot."
"Right..."
"And this is the real beauty. It's a camera but it goes in your eye. Virtually undetectable, it will be our eyes and ears in there. And only one way to get the thing out but it would most likely give you brain damage so we can be sure that you won't switch sides."
"How do you get it in?" Danny asked as Jack picked up the tiny tube.
"Like this." in a flash, Jack placed one hand on Danny's forehead and pinned it on the table. He raised the hand holding the EyeCam and brought it down hard and fast into Danny's eye. And then came the pain.
"Welcome back Danny," Proton said, his eyes never moving from his computer screen. "I trust you had a nice holiday." Proton was a dangerous man. From the day Danny joined Team Rocket he had been afraid of Proton and whilst some feelings of fear were gone, he could never truly say that Proton did not scare him. He always spoke in a cool yet sinister tone and everyone in Team Rocket knew that he was molesting female grunts. But, he had to go to Proton to submit his wanted team members.
"It was good sir. I nicked a car sir." Danny replied. He had decided to damage his brand new car slightly so that it wouldn't look suspicious.
"Excellent, we'll get you a permanent parking space so that you don't have to pay to park." Proton looked up at Danny and smiled a cruel smile. "Have you decided on your team yet?"
"Most of 'em sir. Here's the list." Danny passed a piece of paper with names and pictures on it. He had put one as "new grunt" so that he could try and incorporate Abbie into his team who was yet to perform the planned robbery.
"Ok... yes... well that all seems to be in order and in a few weeks or so you can pick your new grunt. We'll relocate your chosen grunts to your new bunker, it's in D7." Proton said, clicking the mouse of his computer as he went down the list. He then threw Danny a bag of security passes for his new bunker.
"Thank you sir." Danny said as he left Proton's office, breathing a sigh of relief. He turned left and headed towards his new bunker. In a couple of minutes, he had reached D7 so he took out a security pass and slotted through the scanner. The light turned green and the door slid open. It was larger than an average bunker as it had one main room and five other doors leading to five separate bedrooms each with five bunk beds inside. The main room had a table, an armchair, two sofas and a monitor which presumably issued important messages. It was a little crammed but it did seem to have enough room to accommodate his new team. Danny set down the bag of passes and then sat down in the one armchair. Danny looked around the bunker and saw no cameras so he spoke. "Jack, Abbie needs to do it within the next few days, tomorrow if possible or we run the risk of her not being in my team. Leave me a message when she's done Ok?" It felt odd speaking to nobody but the pain still lingered in his eye, reminding him of the EyeCam. A few seconds passed and then the monitor switched on, showing the outside of the bunker.
"Open the door Griffin." The monitor showed a pretty, ginger girl with brown eyes. She looked annoyed.
Danny found a small microphone on the table and said "Try using some manners, House." and he pressed the button by the door to open it. The girl stormed in and slumped into the armchair.
"I will kill you Danny, if it is the last thing I do."
"Now why would you do that Kirstie? It would be quite mean, especially as I'm your commander now." Danny said smugly. He knew Kirstie would be annoyed that he asked for her to be on his team but the requirements for people to be on his team included those who treat Pokémon nicely, people who didn't want to be part of Team Rocket and people who he knew. She had conveniently slipped into all of them.
"You just had to ask for me didn't you?" she said, standing up and walking over to him. "You didn't think it'd be awkward? You didn't think of anyone else who could be your slave?"
"Jeez, you need to calm down. And c'mon, this'll make missions a whole lot more fun and you didn't think I'd just leave you to Proton did you?" he had stopped her from talking at least. But then she looked at his right eye, no, she stared at it.
"What the hell is wrong with your eye?"
"Nothing." Danny said quickly.
"It's different, the colour's not normal." Kirstie was stubborn, observational and his ex-girlfriend so she could notice the 'virtually undetectable' difference in his eye.
"Maybe it's an infection, I'll get it checked out." Danny said and turned away from her gaze. He had wanted to convert her to a GRES member but this was far too soon. First he needed Abbie on the team. "Yours is middle room, bottom bunk, make yourself at home."
"And yours is?"
"Middle room, top bunk."
"Unbelievable..." she muttered and turned away, setting her bag down by the room.
"Well it's not like we're sleeping in the same bed, I mean, everyone else would hear it."
"That was the past Danny, get over it." Soon, Danny thought, soon, he would regain her friendship and then hopefully build up a revolution from the inside of Team Rocket. Well, maybe a few years and then that could happen.
So here's the next chapter, enjoy. I'm having some internet problems right now, so chapters may not be uploaded as frequently as usual but I think it will be fixed soon. Don't forget to review, praise or criticism.
