In the end, Ariana decided to "reward" me by giving me the honour to be the one in charge of taking down the facility. Our mission is to steal all the prehistoric pokemon in here and get their research data. Anything not of use to us is to be destroyed. Standard Team Rocket protocol.

"Elite Officer Plague, we are in position."

I gave a nod at the words my subordinate spoke and took a look at the watch on my wrist. Anytime now.

"Remember the plan. Go through it in your head one more time. We have one minute left until our mission commence."

"Yes sir!"

I let out my drapion from her pokeball, who stood by my side as she impatiently stamped one of her feet on the ground and clicked her pincers menacingly, eager for a deathmatch.

"Easy there, girl." I spoke softly to her and placed a hand on her body to calm her down. "Soon."

Drapion let out a soft snort, but the excited swaying of her tail signalled to me that she is hungry for battle. Drapion's constant lust for battles is something that I had never managed to fully curb. The effects of the brutal experiments done on her made her turned out this way.

Seeing that the agreed time is approaching, I raised my left hand in the air and suspended it there. The Rockets under my lead for this mission all visibly tensed and prepared themselves for what is about to come.

I chopped my hand down.

"Go."

Drapion gave a loud savage bellow before charging straight in, breaking through all obstacles in her way. The rest of my men followed after drapion as I remained behind and let out ninetales, gengar and exeggutor.

"Take us in."

A Teleport from exeggutor brought the four of us into the middle of the building, surprising the occupants.

"Hypnosis."

With that, everyone in our vicinity got themselves knocked out from that psychic move with this particular moment erased from their memories. This is the best I can do without resorting to hurting or killing innocents while doing my missions as a member of Team Rocket.

Whatever happens to them from now on till the end of my mission depends on their fate and luck. I can only say that I tried my best to let them live.

The sounds of battle can be heard outside where my men and my drapion are fighting against the security stationed to guard this research facility. Since their attention is focused on the outside, it lets me have free reign to do whatever I want in this short amount of time in the building. I had already mapped the entire place during the short period of time that I infiltrated in here as a janitor. I knew where to go and what to look for without wasting any time. The people I knocked out aren't even trainers, merely defenceless scientists and researchers because all the combatants had been drawn to the battle outside. This will be an easy mission.

I reached for a computer and plugged in a flash drive given to me by the scientists working for Team Rocket. The virus in it immediately override the security measures installed into the computer, allowing me to have access to the otherwise confidential files. A few clicks of the mouse later, I found what I needed and transferred the data into my flash drive. Anything that Team Rocket doesn't need, I wiped it out as per protocol.

One more thing left to do.

I strolled over to the prohibited area where I know these researchers kept the pokemon that they are studying, ignoring the 'KEEP OUT' sign and the blaring of alarms.

"Gengar, break down the wall."

A Shadow Ball from my gengar blasted a wall open. From the hole in the wall, I saw what I am supposed to acquire for this mission.

Prehistoric pokemon, but not just any prehistoric pokemon. These pokemon here aren't the ones that are revived from fossils. These are prehistoric pokemon are descendents of those that had somehow survived extinction in some remote part of the world before these researchers got their hands on them.

It doesn't belong to them now.

An enraged aerodactyl flew at us, aiming to take us down with its snapping jaws. Gengar simply fired a massive Thunderbolt at it, taking it out. Swarms of kabuto and kabutops poured out as well, but a huge flare of Solar Beam from my ninetales that swept through the entire area is all it needs to put them down. The omanytes and omastars were too afraid of us after that, choosing to remain in their corner instead. I could even spot a few other species of prehistoric pokemon native to other regions.

"Exeggutor, Hypnosis."

Placing whatever remaining pokemon that is still conscious into a deep slumber, I took out the specially made pokeballs designed by the scientists of Team Rocket from the large sack I slung on my back. I threw them towards the group of prehistoric pokemon and with exeggutor's psychic powers guiding the contraptions to their targets, the pokeballs sucked our catch in.

Forty-two prehistoric pokemon acquired.

Another application of exeggutor's psychic abilities got these pokeballs flying back into my sack before I secured it over my back again. I see a lone aerodactyl in another nearby enclosure. All I have to do is to capture it and it will be time to pull out of here.

"Rainer." I spoke to the smartwatch on my wrist, which doubles up as a communication device for us Rockets to communicate in our missions as I am about to break down the aerodactyl's enclosure. "Mission is over, pull out of here."

"Sir, I just received word from Executive Petrel that the mission on Dust's end had failed. Petrel is asking for us to clean it up for him before reinforcements from the League arrived because our location is the closest to where Dust is conducting his operation."

I dragged a tired palm across my face. If I recall my facts right, Dust's mission was a simple mission. One simple mission to assassinate a rogue scientist that had betrayed Team Rocket and is now making his escape into another region. How hard can that be?

"Run me through the details."

"Sir, Dust had used a large group of pokemon and used them to attack the ship the target was on, disguising it as a wild pokemon attack to make it appear as if the target died from an accident. However, he did not fully block the electrical signals in the area in time and someone on the ship managed to send a message back to the Rangers for reinforcements."

Dust did WHAT?!

Using a large group of pokemon to attack the ship the target is on just to kill one target that wasn't even of much importance to Team Rocket? The risk of the method employed doesn't justify the reward should it fail. Team Rocket might be even more exposed due to his stupidity.

I'm certain that Dust just wants to show off what he is capable of by doing something flamboyant, like getting a needlessly large group of pokemon to do the job for him by attacking an entire ship of people. There are so many uncertain elements in there that it is obvious at first glance that this plan isn't going to work. Simply stabbing the scientist with a dagger would have been so much easier and quieter.

He's an idiot.

Logically, I shouldn't complain about Dust's blunder, since taking down Team Rocket is what I had been aiming for. However, whatever this idiot is doing might or might not spoil all the plans and hard work I had put in over the years to bring Team Rocket to justice. The last thing I need is for Team Rocket to hide further underground from this blunder and making it more difficult for me to work my way up. Working my way up is the best bet I have in eventually obtaining proof of the secret identity of the true leader of Team Rocket, which I am sure is Giovanni.

I know for a fact that the Executives are granted the knowledge of who the true leader behind our organisation is. That position is what I had been aiming for ever since Jane died. Everything I have done since then is for this very reason.

My eyes went back to the aerodactyl held in a separate enclosure, which is now flapping its wings and screeching loudly with its fangs and claws bared after seeing what I had done to its brethren. I don't know what made this aerodactyl so special that it is separated from the other prehistoric pokemon, but I don't care.

I tapped my feet on the floor in an irregular rhythm as I weighed my options.

Maybe it's because I was inspired by the method Dust had chosen to complete his mission, but this is the only method I can think on the top of my head right now that doesn't implicate Team Rocket further, not ruin all my hard work over the years, and hopefully buy some time for the innocents on the ship to make a safe escape. I really need to do my best and earn the trust of the upper echelons to fulfil my mission in toppling Team Rocket but I also don't want too many innocents to die in my quest for revenge.

What a difficult situation.

"Rainer, give me the coordinates of the ship. Tell Petrel that I am going to hypnotise one of the aerodactyls here in the facility and send it to clean up the mess. This shouldn't leave any traces behind that could link the attack back to us because the aerodactyl is supposedly a wild pokemon. Hopefully, the aerodactyl will reach the ship before any League trainer does."

"Affirmative, sir."

Exeggutor's eyes glowed blue once more and drapion was teleported back to our side. I recalled the rest of my team except for exeggutor, who knows what she has to do next.

"Do it."

The aerodactyl stopped struggling and the pupils of its eyes dilated as a mental suggestion was planted into its mind. However, I made exeggutor implant a little twist in there. Not only would the aerodactyl not reach the ship in time because it will be flying in circles for awhile in an unseen corner of the region, but it will only look as if it is going after the rogue scientist. I'm counting on the League reinforcements to reach the ship just right before the aerodactyl for this to work. If not, everyone aboard the ship is going to die.

Upon reaching the ship, go after the biggest threat you see.

The mental suggestion implanted into aerodactyl's mind is a vague one, but it should be enough for the aerodactyl to focus on the strongest trainer or threat there, allowing enough time for the ship's occupants to be rescued. This is the best I can do to not implicate too many innocent lives while still maintaining my cover in Team Rocket.

One aerodactyl out of the many we just nabbed won't be missed by the organisation. If the rogue scientist lived to tell the tale, I can always say that I am not adequately prepared and that it is hard to remotely control a hypnotised pokemon over such long distances. Furthermore, Dust screwed up in the first place by making such a big commotion just to dispose of one single idiot. Everything is going to be on him.

I took another look around the facility after I released the brainwashed aerodactyl, who flew into the air and disappeared from view. It shouldn't be able to get rid of the mental suggestion exeggutor input into its brain unless a third party interfered. There should be nothing else here for us to do in this destroyed facility, so I gave exeggutor my next command.

"Let's go back."

It's time for us to report back to Petrel about the successful completion of our mission.


"Wonderful! Absolutely wonderful!"

Petrel exclaimed in delight as he plastered himself onto the glass wall separating us and the prehistoric pokemon that we had stolen. They are now placed in a specially made enclosure for the specific purpose of housing them.

"Look at them! Prehistoric pokemon that somehow avoided extinction! Their addition to Team Rocket can only be good for us!" Petrel rubbed his hands together in glee as he laughed out in joy.

"Good job, Plague! I know you can do this!" Petrel walked over and gave me a pat on the back where I am standing at attention. "You had been steadily proving yourself to be a valuable asset to Team Rocket!"

"I'm just doing my job, Sir." I gave my default reply.

"If only everyone had the same mindset as you." Petrel snorted. "Dust had unfortunately… bitten the dust after his blunder. Your intervention might not have been timely enough in killing that traitor of a scientist, which is understandable considering the circumstances, but it helped in removing some of the traces that could have exposed several of our more important operations. Good job."

Petrel shuffled through the documents messily strewn about on a nearby desk before throwing a folder at me.

"This is your newly assigned location. You are now being transferred to the Celadon hideout for the time being. All the details you need to know are in there. You are dismissed."

I went back to the privacy of my own room and opened up the folder to read what was given to me.

I cannot help but let out a smile.

Celadon hideout, the main base of operations of Team Rocket, their HQ. The place where they first started out. There will be so much more dirt there for me to dig now that I finally have the chance to be posted there. I'm getting closer to achieving my goals.

It won't be long now. I can finally finish what Jane and I first started. The end doesn't seem so far away anymore.

They will fall, soon.

I won't accept any objections.


Name: Jayce

Indigo Government Identity: Operative 2046, Code Name: Gengar

Indigo Government Rank: Special Agent

Team Rocket Identity: Elite Officer Plague

Team Rocket Rank: Elite Officer

Pokemon Team:

1. Ninetales, female

2. Exeggutor, male

3. Weavile, male

4. Honchkrow, female

5. Gengar, female

6. Houndoom, male

7. Umbreon, male

8. Hydreigon, male

9. Drapion, female

10. Zoroark, male

11. Bisharp, male

12. Shiftry, male