Chapter 6
"The Test is a Success"
Back in Cebu, Armando Forlani had checked himself into a resort hotel and had the television also on CNN with the news that the plane he had been on had made an emergency landing. Seeing the large hole in the side of the Boeing 747 had given Armando a sense of satisfaction. Just then, he heard his hotel phone ringing and answered it.
"Ramzi?" he heard an all too familiar voice on the other line. "Well done, Ramzi!"
"The test was a success, Giovanni," he chuckled. "The Pokemon you gave me was able to do the deed. Now, we must move onto the next steps."
"Not quite yet, Ramzi," Giovanni cautioned, sitting in his office in Viridian City and looking out on it. "If we are to carry out Operation Bojinka properly, we must continue to prepare for each and every step. I need you to return to Manila in the morning to scout out the location of his holiness' impending visit."
Giovanni was very well aware that the Pope was coming to Manila in a few weeks on January the 15th. Eliminating the Pope would, in his mind, allow Team Rocket to take over the Vatican and instill a new religious order with Giovanni as its figurehead.
"Yes, for his sacred World Youth Day," Ramzi said. "The youth of the world will be descending and with them are Pokemon to become property of Team Rocket."
At that moment, Giovanni reached into his desk and pulled out two pictures of the Pope with children. He had a far more diabolical plan in mind.
"Of course, I could have two of the pilgrims roped into the deed to use as a decoy. Children are so vulnerable to anything and they'll believe anything."
But to Ramzi, it wasn't a matter of kidnapping children. The only thing he cared about was carrying out his plan for the glory of Team Rocket.
"However, what I have planned for his holiness doesn't involve you," he said. "What I want you to do is focus on the heart of Bojinka, the ocean of blood we will create in the Pacific Ocean."
Giovanni then looked up and saw a map of the Pacific Ocean and on that map was a series of lines, lines that represented routes of airplanes crossing it. The route was linked to East Asia to the West Coast of the United States.
"My assignment for you is to find an explosive Pokemon and force it to obey you and you alone. You will command the Pokemon to explode and kill all in it's wake. The serum is being shipped to your apartment in Manila as we speak."
"And where will I find the Pokemon?"
"Anywhere and if it's off a Pokemon Trainer…kill him."
Ramzi took Giovanni's advice to heart and acknowledged his instructions.
"As you wish," he said. "I killed 6 in the failed plot, so what could a little more spilled blood do for Team Rocket? Allah Akbar!"
Quickly, he hung up the phone and Ramzi prepared to make his way back to Manila in the morning to carry out Giovanni's instructions. As he got to his feet, Giovanni knew that he was overseeing a plot that his mother would have normally done, but he had a third plot to the operation known as Bojinka…an attack that would bring any nation to it's knees.
"It's only a matter of time, Persian," Giovanni said as he proceeded to the Viridian City Gym to do his front job as it's gym leader. "It's only a matter of time."
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So, the next morning, Ramzi did as he was told and returned to Manila to prepare his parts in the plot. With the leader of the Catholic Church due to arrive in a few weeks, time was of the essence for Bojinka to be carried out. Meanwhile, our own investigation into the bombing of Philippine Airlines Flight 434 was about to begin.
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