Ash Misty and Brock meet Austin and Coolma: Part 6

Home Sweet Home

Austin led the pokemon trainers into the port of Cinnibar Island. It was early, but

there should have been some activity in the harbor. Austin and Coolma were getting very

worried that something was wrong, but didn't want to worry their friends.

"There is a pokemart nearby, I have a tab there." Austin called back to Ash,

Misty, and Brock. "You can get whatever you want, just try not to empty my bank

account too much."

The team pulled up to the docks, but were surprised by two men in black Team

Rocket uniforms.

"Hey, you guys look a little young to be part of Team Rocket." The heavier one

said, motioning to their stolen jet skis.

Austin breathed a sigh of relief along with the rest of the group. These two oafs

thought that they were rocket members. "Oh, well, we're new recruits." He lied.

"Where are your uniforms?" the man's partner asked.

"Um..." Austin tried to think of something quick. With little success.

"We're going to pick them up now, they haven't issued them to us yet." Misty

chimed in.

Thank you Misty! Austin thought to himself.

"Well, I guess I believe that." the man said. "Anyway, who could pull off robbing

Team Rocket? Especially a couple of kids!" the man laughed to himself and helped them

off of their jet skis.

"Well, I'll be sure to put in a good word for ya' when we get to the recruiting

station" Brock said as they walked off the pier.

Later on, the gang finally reached a burned down lot.

"Holy Diglett!" Coolma exclaimed. "What happened to the Pokemart?"

"It looks like someone burned it down." Ash declared.

"Oh really? When did you figure that out Sherlock?" Misty replied sarcastically.

Brock walked into what was left of the doorway, and turned around. "This looks

really bad. Almost as if there was an explosion in here!" He motioned to a spot near the

middle, where there wasn't even any burned wood. "It looks like something went off in

this spot!"

"Austin?" Misty asked.

"Yea?" Austin asked back as he stared at the rubble.

"Do you know anything about this?"

The question shocked Austin. He couldn't believe what she said. "What do you

mean by that?"

"I'm just asking you if you know anything about what's going on here. You used to

live here." Misty said. "You don't have to get all defensive!"

"Sorry, this is hard for me. "Austin mumbled.

"Yea, Austin was buds with the kid who's parents owned this store." Coolma said.

"Oh, I'm sorry I didn't know." Misty apologized.

"It's okay, I just can't figure out what happened here." Austin said.

"Well I have a pretty good idea." Brock said, walking out of the charred building.

"This was no accident. It looks like the work of Team Rocket."

"Did I hear our Que.?" said a familiar female voice.

"Yes Jessie, I think you did." said a familiar male voice.

"This is about the last thing I need!" Austin exploded.

Jessie and James jumped down from their hiding place followed by Meowth. "Oh,

right on time then." Meowth said.

Austin's face clearly showed his anger. In a flash he grabbed his ice beam gun

from under his jacket and had it pointed at the three gangsters.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." cackled Jessie.

"And why not? You rockets have made my life a living hell!" Austin shouted,

shocking everyone. No one had ever heard him speak like that before.

"Because," sneered Meowth, "We got a little backup this time!"

In a moment, Rocket guards, led by the leader of the gang they had encountered

before, had them surrounded. Killer Jr. took an attack pose and the rest of the group

reached for their pokeballs.

"Not a smart move kid." one of the guards said as he pointed a gun at Austin.

"Now come along quietly, or we'll drop ya' right here."

"Oh, a big man when you have a gun huh!" Austin screamed, his rage taking over

him. "And you only out number us about fifty to one! You guys make me sick!"

"Oh, we do, do we?" The guard stepped forward and dropped his gun. "Well

maybe we should even it up a little. I didn't feel like dragging you back to the hideout

anyway."

With that Austin gave his gun to Killer Jr. and walked towards the man.

"What are you doing?" Misty demanded. "He'll kill you!"

"Yea, let it go okay?" Brock tried to coax him down.

"Don't do this now." Coolma pleaded.

"Sorry guys, but I gotta' do what I gotta' do." Austin growled.

"So, let's go okay? I'll give you the first hit, right here" the man pointed to his

chin.

Austin wound up. He drew his fist back. The anger in his eyes cleared, but just for

a second. Austin kicked the man in the gut, then elbowed him in the head, knocking him

into the pavement! "Run guys!" He shouted as the other members of the gang made a

dive for him.

Killer Jr. jumped onto Austin's shoulders and dropped the gun down to him before

tackling one of the approaching guards. Austin fired a few shots and froze a two of the

guards before they were on him. The others didn't run, instead, they tried to pull the

guards off of the rage-filled boy. They were grabbed by their shoulders and held while

two men stood up and pulled Austin to his feet. He was now beaten significantly and had

scrapes on his knees and elbows. Not to mention a black eye and a bloody nose.

The first guard got off the ground holding one hand over his forehead, where his

head had hit the ground. "You little slug," he said scowling. "take him to his new home!"

The guards led the group to a large truck with a Team Rocket insignia on it. They

were brought to a tall, white building. It appeared to be some sort of lab-building.

"You..." Austin mumbled, but nobody heard him. He was weak and he wasn't

thinking straight. His rage had taken over and it blurred his reasoning.

"Are you all right?" Ash asked.

"Yea, you took quite a beating back there." Brock added.

"I'll live." he grumbled. "Which is more than I can say for that guy who did this to

me."

"Calm it bro." Coolma cautioned.

"Don't tell me what to do, I'm in a bad mood!" Austin snapped back.

The truck they were in stopped and they were led out one by one. They were

marched past two armed guards and were led into a room filled with cells. They were led

to the end of the hall, and into one of the cells.

"This is your new home. Get used to it!" The guard laughed as he locked them in

and strolled away.

"Has the whole island gone MAD!" Austin yelled.

"What's up with him? He's going nuttier by the second!" Brock asked.

"His entire town was taken over by Team Rocket numbskull!" Ash said pounding

him on the head.

"Hey, maybe we should try to get out of here!" a strange voice cut in.

The group turned to the back of the cell to see a man laying on a bunk in the back

of the cell. The man looked strange. He was older than Austin, but not that much older.

He wore a black T-Shirt and white lab pants that were ripped to shreds below his knees.

He looked as if he hadn't shaved for a while, but his hair was even worse, it was all long

and tangeled in a mess on top of his head.

"How long have you been in here man?" Coolma asked.

"One day and twelve hours." He replied. "But enough about me, what I'm

interested in is that little sandslash you got there boy."

"What are you talking about?" Austin asked.

"Well, he can dig can't he?" said the man.

"That's it! It's so simple! Killer Jr can get us out!" Brock exclaimed.

"Hey you!" The man said motioning to Brock.

"What?"

"Aren't you that Pewter City gym leader?" asked the man.

"Why yes, I'm the famous Brock Shale!" Brock replied.

"Oh, sorry about that." the man replied.

"HEY!" Brock shouted.

"Cut it out you two! Be serious for once!" Misty piped up.

"Yea, we're in kind of a situation here!" Ash said.

"Well, anyway, Killer Jr? Would you do the honers? Just beware of the gas

mains!" Coolma said.

"Slashsan! (gladly!)"

Killer Jr, waiting to show off opped up on one tow and began to spin at an

amazing speed. His claws started to rip up some of the concrete. Huge slabs were

cracking and shooting up out of the hole that was slowly forming. Suddenly, he stopped

and jumped out of the hole screaming and holding his foot. His foot was red and

swelling up in pain.

"Oh, by the way, the floor has reinforced steel beams running through every half

of a foot. I forgot to tell you that part." the man casually commented.

"You what?" Austin yelled for the first time in almost ten minutes. "That's my

pokemon, and if he's injured, you'll answer to me!"

"So, the big guy speaks! It looks like you got the stuffing knocked out of you!" the

man declaired. "Ya' get in a fight with a gang?"

"Accually-" Misty started.

"None of your business!" Austin shot at him.

"Hey, hey, calm down big guy!" the man said, "I'm on your side!"

"Oh, we don't know your name!" Misty said, trying to change the subject.

"They call me Josh. Who might you be little lady?"

"I'm Misty, these are my friends." Misty answered.

"I'm Brock!" Brock broke in.

"I'm Ash, and this is Pikachu" Said Ash holding up Pikachu.

"Pika!"

"I'm Coolma! Master of all pokemon!" Coolma bragged.

"No you're not! You have two! There are a lot more than that!" Ash said.

"I'm Austin Riccochet." Austin said, looking down so that his hat fell down in

front of his eyes.

"Whoa! Back the truck up! Riccochet! As in Ricctronics Riccochet?" Josh asked.

"Yea? What's so important about that?" Brock asked.

"Well, for idiot boy here I'll explain it." Josh started.

"Hey! I'm not an idiot!"

"Anyway, this is the Ricctronics lab!" Josh answered. "I worked here cloning

pokemon."

"Why didn't you tell us?" Brock asked.

"Hey, you didn't ask!" Coolma returned.

The group turned back to Killer Jr. His foot was in bad shape, it was not what you

would call the best condition to drill through solid concrete.

"What about your arms, could you use those on the wall?" Asked Misty.

"San slash (I'll try.)"

"What did he say Austin?" asked Brock.

"He said he'll give it a try, but I wouldn't reccomend it, these walls are really

thick, it would take hours of one-handed digging to get it down. We'd be caught before

then." Austin groaned.

"You know about this building?" Coolma said.

"Duh, I've been her hundreds of times before you were born!" Austin said. "After

that, Dad decided that it would be a pain to bring 2 kids here. That didn't stop me from

riding my bike here though."

"So, is there anyway out of here?" Asked Josh. Now interested that they had a

building expert in the room.

"Yea!" Austin said getting an idea.

"What is it?" Asked Coolma.

Austin ran to Brock and grabbed a pokeball out of Brock's hiker bag.

"Hey, that's mine!" Brock complained.

"Shut up! Let the man work!" Josh said jumping up form the bunk and hitting

Brock in the back of the head.

Austin threw the pokeball. "Onix GO!!" He shouted. The huge rock-snake sprung

out and pushed everyone back into the wall!"

"Great plan!" Ash said being crushed into a bunk.

"Just hold on a minute!" Brock said. "I know what he's doing! Onix, push down

those bars!"

Onix shoved at the bars and grunted with all his strength.

"Accually, I was going to-" Ausitn started, but they were all thrust back at a

cracking sound! The back wall was giving way and they were all pushed through. "-tell

him to do that." Ausitn finished motioning to the destroyed wall.

"Hey, where are we?" Misty asked looking around.

"Locker room." Josh mumbled and looked at the room.

There were hundreds of lockers with labels on them. They were surrounded on

two sides by the stainless steel lockers. The othe two walls, one with doors, and the other

with a hole in it now, were covered in colorful posters. One showed a Persian with it's

claws in an exeggutor's branches. The caption said "Hang in There."

"Hey, I have a locker in this room!" Josh said and ran to a corner and opened a

locker with a sticker of a Magikarp on it. He opened the door and pulled three pokeballs

out of the space. "Here's my Kabutops, and my trusty Garados!" Josh declaired joyfully.

"and let's not forget, Magikarp!" Josh said as he called out his Magikarp. "My most useful

pokemon!"

"Uh, a Magikarp? What's so useful about that?" Brock asked.

"This!" Josh said.

With that, Josh whaled Brock in the head with the Magikarp.

"Ow! Quit it!" Brock said rubbing a lump on his head.

Josh just grinned and put his magikarp in his belt like a six-shooter in a cowboy

movie.

"We can go now, I'm about ready to kick some Rocket Bou-tay!" Josh said.

"I'll second that one!" Austin piped in.

"Me too!" Said misty pulling her pokeballs out of her bag and putting them on her

belt.

"I'm in!" said Ash. Calling Pikachu to hop on his shoulder.

"PIKA! CHU CHU! (let's kick some tail!)"

"SAN SANSLASH (count me in for some of that!)" Killer Jr grinned evily and

began to sharpen his talons on his back.

"I guess I'm in too!" Brock said and put his hand out.

The rest of the group circled around and put their hands in the middle. All but

Josh, who put in his Magikarp.

"Who is the best?" Coolma yelled.

"We are!" the rest followed up.

"Who are we gonna' beat the skittles out of?" Josh yelled.

"Team Rocket!" they cheered.

At that a mean looking guard walked into the room through the door followed by

another one walking throught the hole.

"What's going on in here?" they asked in union.

The gang grabbed thier pokeballs. The guards raised thier guns. Their was a loud

boom and a flash!

Ash and everybody else was thrown back. Then they heard a new voice.

"Well well, look who it is"

To be continued....