Operation Encompass

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Episode XI- Epilogue
by SPOT4
The three trainers, respectively dirty, wet, and the last one slightly singed, watched as Jean-Luc, Sarah, and Derrick were placed in the back end of a squad car, complaining all the way. "Ow! Get off me!" "Watch out!" "Watch out yourself!"
As the car drove off towards the prison, Professor Oak joined the trio. "Looks like you three have had qutie an adventure!" Along with Oak was a woman policeman, whom Tony thought looked very familiar.
David nodded. Ron said what everyone was thinking. "I think an adventure would be an understatement, but you guys have all lost me on something. How in the world did you switch Encompass for that Butterfree, and get yourselves out here? I thought you had been kidnapped, Professor!"
Oak smiled. "What happened here is really a case of a little ploy that worked a little too well."
Tony frowned. "What do you mean by that?"
Oak continued, "That Butterfree had been there all along."
David was confused. "What?! How is that possible?"
Oak went on. "Remember that day when I brought home Encompass? When I was out in the field that day, I spotted on a hill adjacent to me, a group of police. They called me over, and asked me to take part in what they called "Operation: Encompass". They said they had been trying to get a hold of me earlier that week, but decided that out here they had a better chance of not being seen."
The policewoman nodded. "That's right. We have been on the trail of Giovanni for years, and we will capture him someday. We knew we needed a ploy. Something to grab his attention, and get him somewhere that we can be ready and waiting. We thought of Encompass, which everyone knows is a legend, and made it sound like one had been discovered. Professor Oak was the perfect person to pull this off, too. Think of it from Giovanni's perspective. Oak's a old scientist, who spends entire days in a lab, and, no offense, is not known for having either a good security system, or very strong Pokemon."
Oak looked down on the policewoman. "And so we set off for our Pokemon camping trip. I figured that we would be ambushed, and that there would be a fight. I purposly brought some of my weaker Pokemon to make it a bit easier for them to get the Encompass. Just in case you would doubt my finding of Encompass, I had a prepared story ready, as to how I had caught it."
Tony shook his head. "That story sounded so real, too. So then, what? The three of us fought and beat the Team Rocket trio, and they kidnapped you, but you didn't bother telling us that Encompass wasn't real before we took off across the country trying to stop Rocket?"
Oak put his hands up in a slight guarding position. "Now, listen. I really had to have your reactions be perfect. What if I had told you? You three wouldn't have fought anyone for those badges and Giovanni would have suspected something."
David almost grabbed Oak's lab coat. "Prof! I was almost killed!! Twice!!!"
Oak tried to smirk. "Chalk it up to experience?"
Ron was still trying to finish out the story. "So then, we went all-out to get these badges, and each of us get to the badge, but lose them to the Rocket members. What if we had gotten those badges?"
The policewoman looked over to Ron. "If know Giovanni, he would probably have tried to use Encompass anyway. Luckily for us, a Butterfree isn't affected by any of those items."
Tony was confused. "So, how did that Butterfree get there in the first place?"
Oak smiled. "The police asked me to donate a Pokemon for the cause on the day that they met me in the field. I happened to have just caught a Butterfree, and I gave that one to them, which they labeled as Encompass."
David rubbed his chin. "Wasn't there a chance that Giovanni would have opened the Pokeball to make sure it was real?"
Oak nodded. "I had already thought of that. When they were questioning me about Encompass, I slipped in that the Pokemon had to be resting for an extremely long time inside of it's Pokeball if it was expected to perform its Encompass Command. You should have seen them after that. They were so careful to make sure that the little Encompass was perfectly comfortable so that it would work for them. That Butterfree has never seen a better time."
The policewoman laughed. "After that, we waited for the day when Encompass was supposed to have reached full strength. We were hoping to nab Giovanni as soon as the Butterfree had shown itself, and the shock was just setting in. We never expected him to actually use that Butterfree to put us all to sleep."
Ron rolled his eyes. "Listen, old trainer's tip: if the opponent uses Sleep Powder, and you don't want to fall asleep with your Pokemon, HOLD YOUR BREATH!!! We could really have used your help trying to capture those three Rocket goons."
Tony nodded. "And it's not really like we had a chance in catching Giovanni anyway. As soon as you were all asleep, he just up and disappeared."
The policewoman frowned. "He seems to do that a lot. You can't believe how hard it is to track him. You three kids got lucky tonight. That was probably the only time that you'll ever actually see Giovanni."
David thought about it all. "This is all just so amazing."
The policewoman looked over to where the squad car had driven off, "Also, if you three hadn't been here, we wouldn't have even caught these three Rocket members. Do you realize that you are all heroes?"
Ron liked the thought of that. "Wow!"
"No," Tony disagreed, shaking his head, "we're not. We're the Pokemon Task Force!"
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Derrick, Sarah, and Jean-Luc were crammed in the back seat of the squad car, each almost sitting on each other's lap, which Sarah was definatley not pleased about. The car was nearing Pallet. Jean-Luc motioned to his friends. With one smooth motion, he scooped up his belt of Pokeballs off of the floor with his feet, and snapped one off of his belt. The other two did the same.
In the morning, one burned out, broken down squad car was found, along with a few officers who had fainted, on the side of the road to Pallet.
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"Victory Over Team Rocket by Pokemon Task Force!" Tony was reading the headlines of the Pallet Times out loud to his friends as he walked into the lab that morning. "Hey, did you guys see this article?" He looked around. The entire lab was trashed, glop everywhere. "What in the world happened in here?!"
David pulled out his mop again. "Ron still thought he could beat me."
Tony went to touch the slop, but it smelled awful. "What did you use? Buckets of mud?"
Ron got the window cleaner. "A couple of Muks, okay?" He began scrubbing the windows. "But this time, I DID beat David!"
Tony was walking to the closet to get out his rags, again as David retaliated. "Oh, right! I think not!"
He started rubbing down the tables, again, as Ron threw some of the glop at David, hitting him directly across the shoulder. "I did too beat you!!"
David looked down at his shoulder, scooped up some of the stuff from the floor and lobbed it at Ron. He missed, and Tony had to sidestep it as it flew by. He continued to scrub. David grabbed more of the stuff. "Oh, I missed that time, but I won't miss you now!" He launched another shot, and Ron started to dodge it, but he slipped, falling face first into the goop, and then David's shot landed on top of him.
Ron stood up, wiping his face off as David laughed hysterically. "Oh, yeah?!?!"
He charged at David, barely missing Tony, who was still scrubbing. He took a break and watched his two friends yelling, beating each other up, and throwing the muck at one another. "Yes, sir," he smiled as he went back to work, dodging another globular missle. "Things are finally getting back to normal around here."