Chapter 56

"Guarding Madam Boss"

Back in Viridian City, our target remained in the intensive care unit of Viridian City Hospital as the doctors monitored her prognosis. For almost six hours, both Fuji and Namba stood outside the door of the ICU awaiting news on their superior's condition.

"Why isn't Giovanni still not here?" asked Namba as Fuji paced back and forth. "This is his mother after all."

"Yes, it is very selfish of him to behave this way. But it's his right to not be here."

Both scientists could only take matters into their own hands. Madam Boss was their leader, after all, and neither of them were going to abandon her by any stretch of the imagination.

"Then we will have to guard her ourselves," declared Namba. "I gave it my solemn oath that I would give my life for the glory of Team Rocket and that's exactly what I am going to do."

Namba then reached into his coat pocket and showed Fuji a .344 magnum revolver.

"Do you know what this is?" he asked in a determined voice. "This is a .344 magnum revolver, manufactured by Smith and Wesson. It will blow a person's head clean off, by God and if Giovanni isn't going to protect his mother, we will!"

Fuji wasn't sure, but was willing to go the route that Namba wanted him to follow. Although, he did have his own reservations on the matter.

"James," he said, taking off his glasses and cleaning them. "I personally believe that we should have some of our finest agents guarding our wise and noble leader. I mean, what good will two scientists be in protecting her from the invaders?"

The two men then looked back into the ICU as another patient was wheeled in.

"True, but they would be acting on our behalf instead of Giovanni's behalf," remarked Namba. "They would be instructed to protect our leader with their lives, you hear me?"

Of course, Namba had his reasons for protecting Madam Boss from being captured, but Fuji also had his own reasons.

"James, I completely agree with what you are thinking," he said. "Like you, I want to protect our leader on account that she has also financed the development of the Mew project: the first project where I would use Mew's DNA to create a Pokemon purposed to serve Team Rocket and Team Rocket alone. If anything were to happen to our leader…the project would be ruined."

It was settled as later that afternoon, four Team Rocket agents came into the hospital and stood outside the ICU ensuring that Madam Boss would be protected at all times.

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Back in Tehran, unbeknownst to the two scientists, Giovanni was at Mehrabad Airport preparing to board Rocket One for the flight back to Japan. His main concern wasn't in any way for his mother, but for the continued perseverance of ensuring his ways of Pokemon-used terror attacks would be embraced.

"Fools," Giovanni scoffed as he watched news reports on his mother's condition. "She won't live for very long and she certainly won't get any support from me. Once she dies, I will take over Team Rocket and will run it my way."

He then looked down at the plans he created: a map of multiple airliners being blown up over the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. He could only imagine the bounties of picking Pokemon off of their dead trainers at the bottom of the sea: no resistance, no interference, no nothing that would result in nothing but success for Team Rocket…at least in his mind.

On the tarmac, Steven watched as Rocket One taxied into position for takeoff. Like Giovanni, he was hoping his plans would be a success, but also had to keep in mind of the potential consequences if things were to fail.

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Little did anyone know that back in the Team Rocket headquarters in Tehran, international police officers disguised as Team Rocket agents were already hard at work identifying the weaknesses of the structure in anticipation of a raid unlike anything in the history of Pokemon.

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