The Rebel leaders are just as trapped as everybody else. They have no plan and are stuck in a endless loop. Flame, however, might just have a brainwave that could change all that. But will it be successfull?
Episode Twenty-Eight: The Rebel Leaders
Alpha slowly plodded over to the corner of our cage, where grime has seemingly stockpiled, and began digging in it. I wanted to ask what the hell he was doing, but I didn't want to risk angering the crazy.
Eventually, it began to make sense as a small hole was uncovered. It led to the cage next door. Alpha whistled through the hole and stepped back as a green face appeared.
"What can I do for you boss?" The face asked
"I got a newbie, Bulbasaur, so I'm introducing him to everyone."
"Righto, have you told him about the brainwashing?" The Bulbasaur asked, I nearly had a heart attack when I heard it.
"Brainwashing? You were serious about that?" I asked, Alpha laughed.
"We do not kid around. The Pokémon that live in the cage to the left of us were brainwashed. Now they obey the Rockets without question."
I had only one responce to that news, "Shit."
There as a clang from below us. I wondered what it was and went over to the cage bars to have a looksie.
A brown, tallish Pokémon walk out of the cage door, which had opened on its own.
"Thats Hitmonchan," Alpha said, with a shake of his head.
"Why is he being let out?"
"The brainwashed get let out everyday for some exercize, they also get slightly better food."
"So he's a mindless slave then?"
"Pretty much. All us sane Pokémon just ignore him, he is prone to throwing hissy fits."
Well my Vulpix cellmate definatly wasn't sane, but I didn't want to risk my life and find out what a hissy fit was. Hitmonchan walked off, seemingly knowing exactly where to go. I decided to ask a question that I hoped Alpha would know the answer to, "So how exactly are they brainwashed?"
"None of us know, we think hyponsis."
"Can't be. I came up against one of those bastards's Hypno. It could only control four Pokémon at a time. And by the sound of it, there are a fair few Pokémon here and I doubt they would be able to control that many Psychic waves in such a short area," I said. I didn't know where I got the insight into Psychic waves but I didn't exactly care.
Alpha was impressed by my theory and went back to the cell hole too discuss it with the Bulbasaur. I waited by the cell door, calmly hoping that a Rocket would walk past for me to shout at. Unfortunatly, for my temper, none decided to approach.
"Hey Newbie! Our tech support agrees with you on that one," Alpha called, bekoning me over. I decided to ignore the newbie remark.
"Tech support?" I asked, having never heard that term before.
"The free-minded Pokémon that's in the next cage to Bulbasaur. It is able to hack into Human technolagy at will. Handy little guy, we once rigged all the cage opening devices to go off when the fire alarm did. But it didn't work, because we can only set the alarm off manually so we changed it back. Seeing as there is only one Porygon around, he'd be executed on the spot if the Rockets found out that we could do that."
I understood that a little better, we had a Pokémon that could fiddle with the Rocket's stuff from its cage and was nearly able to open all the cages at once and cause a mass rebellion. Unfortunatly, it didn't work.
"So we'd need to be outside the cage in order to set of the alarm and open the cage?"
"Pretty much, and we can't set the alarm off from the cages. It is out of sight from the cages and even if it wasn't, we don't have anything to throw at it to try and set it off that way" Alpha sighed. I looked towards the cage bars and grinned before saying, "I think I may have just got a plan."