Well, after much goofing off, I got another Episode done. And, yay, we finally start getting somewhere.
Episode 143: Stealthy Entrance
"There's a guard," Fervo muttered as we crouched in the undergrowth, looking out upon a small complex. I couldn't believe that a building no bigger than a small house could be a Rocket base.
"Guard is asleep," Scyther pointed out, "Scyther can use sleep powder and knock Guard out for two hours."
"Shame that we can't just torch the place," I sighed, "but we've got to get my friend out of there alive."
"Flame never told Scyther who Flame meant by friend," the bug spoke up.
"Crescent," I replied, using Mew's alias, "it was Crescent."
Scyther nodded and dashed off towards the guard. Or that was where I figured he had vanished, considering that the Human suddenly slumped over. Fervo and I both slowly snuck towards the door, staying in the shadows. This would have been pointless had I not dimmed my tail flame to mere embers. And I was covered in dirt, so my orange scales didn't stand out. Ironically, I would not have had that problem if I had kept the blue scales that the antiMew 'bestowed' on me.
"Door's locked," Scyther muttered as he propped the guard back up, "no way in."
"Hello, we are breaking and entering," Fervo replied as he ripped the lock clean apart with his claws, "so, we break. Then enter."
"You idiot!" Scyther growled, causing us both to freeze. He never used 'you' unless he was mad, "any Human walking past would see the damage and alert others."
"Well, we don't intend to hang around. We get Crescent, get out and burn the place down," Fervo replied defensively, "so we only really need stealth for the first leg of the trip. Once we have Crescent, we fight our way out. And may Mew help any fool who tries to stop us."
Scyther grumbled and headed inside, checking ahead of 'the two idiots' while I turned to glance at Fervo.
"Why would Mew help his captors?" I asked
"Figure of speech. Besides, it was needed to throw him off of our trail," Fervo whispered in reply as he headed after the bug.
"I hate lying," I muttered as I followed behind.
Well, it didn't take us long to figure out why the building was so small. I didn't need size. There was a staircase that led deep underground, lit up by blue lights. I was feeling really awkward right then; the whole scenario seemed familiar to me. Scyther was the first to reach flat ground and peeked around the corner, waving us forward. This time, Fervo decided that being stealthy was a good idea. Me, not so much. I tripped over my own feet and fell flat on my face, managing not to cry out as I fell. As I pulled myself up, while Scyther and Fervo stared at me, I spotted the room up ahead.
It was a large storage room. One that I recognized. The same room that I had done battle with my anti, with Mew and his other helping out. I was in that same base.
"Shit," I muttered as I got up, Scyther looking puzzled so I came up with an excuse, "I landed funny, nothing serious."
"Just be careful. We don't want to be caught."
As Scyther went on ahead again, Fervo asked what the real reason for my cursing was.
"I've been here before. If we find Mew in a tube full of green liquid, we run while screaming," was my answer as we both hurried after Scyther.
It didn't take us long to find ourselves in the corridor with steel walls, using the door this time, and I knew that Mew had to be somewhere nearby. We turned a corner and found the same two tubes from my last visit. Luckily, they were not in use. The glass casing had been raised to the ceiling and Scyther stepped forward, leaning over and glancing at the platforms.
"There is liquid here."
"It must have been in use recently," Fervo suggested.
"Well, at least whatever used them is not psychotic. The glass would have been blown apart if they had been held against their will."
"I'm not entirely sure that is a good thing."
I had stood mute the entire time, not sure what to make of it. Was I glad that Mew wasn't being held inside or worried about the old occupants? A little of both, I guess. At least something managed to cut the tension. A Human in a white coat had walked in and stopped dead in his tracks, staring at the three of us. He quickly turned tail and fled, yelling out.
"Flame, find Crescent and get out of here!" Scyther ordered as he swept out his blades, "Scyther will catch up, when Scyther has silenced lab rat."
I nodded and he set off after the Human, although several other shouts were heard in the distance.
"Looks like stealth is out of the question now," Fervo laughed.
"Aye. Let's go."
I opened one of the steel doors, they had handles on them this time. Low enough for me to reach, which was odd. We stepped out into a second corridor and headed along it, wondering how long it would take for the Rocket's to find us.
"Scyther will keep them occupied," Fervo said, trying to relieve the tension.
"Even he can't take down everything. That Tangela, for example," I countered as I turned the corner, cursing when I found the dead end.
Fervo swore and went to turn back, diving back towards me when a fireball bounced off of the steel plating near his head.
"Shit! Scyther!" He yelled out as loud as he could, while I stared at the wall. Something was off about it. I stepped closer and spotted small indents along the side. I rammed my claws into those indents, while the fireballs from behind seemed to have been halted and the screams had started again. I assumed Scyther had caught up with us.
Something behind those indents shattered and the wall fell forwards, revealing a large room in front of us. And, in the center, was the object of our search. Mew. The feline was slumped up against a box, placed in the center of a yellow circle that had been drawn on the floor. He opened one eye as we approached and threw up a paw to warn me to halt, but it was too late as I reached the yellow marking and was thrown back by an invisible force. I also yelled out, mainly because of the electricity that suddenly belted me.
"Force field," I heard the feline say, his voice pained, "the computer to turn it off is over there."
I pulled myself up, fully igniting my tail flame and heading over to the place where Mew pointed. Some sort of machine, covered in buttons. I pulled myself up and starting hitting random stuff, making symbols appear on the screen.
"This would be a lot easier if I could read Human."
"Let me try," Fervo said as he hauled himself up and took a look, "hmm. This won't let you in, right?"
"Yeah."
"So it is like a door."
"I guess."
"And how did we get into this place?"
"We broke the door."
"Exactly."
Fervo slammed both fists into the screen, shattering it into millions of pieces, and wrenched out several wires. The lights above us flickered and the yellow floor marking vanished.
"See. Break, then enter," the Treecko laughed as we both leapt off of the broken computer and rushed over to Mew, the force field down.
"I'll have to remember that," Mew coughed as I pulled him up, he could barely stand, "for if I live to make it out of here."
"What did they do to you?"
"Nothing yet, just taking blood samples and running tests. They were talking about some sort of 'experiment' to perform on me tomorrow, luckily you decided not to hang around," Mew muttered, his tail hanging limp for once, "I have no strength left. I couldn't even sense you coming. I'd have had no hope in defending myself from them anymore."
We all froze as a loud laugh boomed out across the room. We all glanced around, trying to see where it was coming from. Fervo pointed upwards and on a small platform that ran across the wall, stood a Human. He had an aura of fear surrounding him.
"Giovanni," Mew muttered, "Team Rocket's boss. We're in trouble now."