The Story of Team Rocket

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I took off my shoes and put my feet into the ocean's tide. We had walked
all nite and finally arrived at our destination. Pallet Town, no where will
you find a more desolate place for a human being to live.

"This is where Giovanni said to meet him." GP stated quite blandly. GP was
more of the strong silent type. The more you got to know him the more he'd
occasionally quip one thing or another, he definetly knew a lot more about
Pokemon than I did. He knew defense values, special abilities, strength
ratios, and on and on. How he conveyed all this without talking very much
still eludes me.

Kat joined me at the coastline and put her feet in the waves along with
mine. She sighed and put her head on my shoulders. She'd had a long day too.

"Where's Giovanni?" Daemon asked.
"He'll be here..." GP cryptically shot back. And so we waited some more,
and waited, and waited. I didn't mind much, I was enjoying my situation.

BlackSkunk sat watching the horizon towards Vermillion. He squinted towards
a boat docked in the harbor. "What the..."

A small shadowy figure was walking ABOVE the waves towards our position. As
he drew nearer the shadow figure became recognizable as the man we met at
the museum. When he became equal with our position (About 20 feet out.) he
started walking inland. All of us were speechless this was remarkable! Our
surprise ended as he walked towards the shore; he was wearing stilt-sized
platform shoes, keeping him above the waves and in our eyesight.

Kat, (We had long since gotten up since when Gio started walking across the
water.) whispered without turning around "Think he's got a god complex?"
"OOOOhhhhh yeah..." I replied through clinched teeth.

"Well, glad to see you all came!" Giovanni commented while getting down
from his huge shoes. "I've got a proposition for you all..."

A female voice came from behind us in the bushes, "Our group needs more
trainers like you all..." It was First Officer Jenny. "The few members we
have are spread few and far between, not to mention that most of them are
incompetant." DaemonWyrm came forward with the obvious question,

"Well who ARE you!?!?"
Gio and Jen looked at each other and said in unison, "They had to ask!"
Jen: "Prepare for Trouble!"
Gio: "And make it Double!"
Jen: "To protect the world from devastation!"
Gio: "To untie all peoples within our nation!"
Jen: "To denounce the EVILS of truth and Love!"
Gio: "To extend our reach to the star above!"
Gio: "Gio!"
Jen: "Jen!"
Both: "Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light! Surrender now or prepare
to fight!"

We stood spellbound for a minute, until Skunk said, "Untie? I'd be for
that!" He snickered. Giovanni took a piece of paper out of his coat pocket,
"Arrrggghh! It's supposed to be UNITE!!! " Gio scribbled on the piece of
paper while Jenny took over the briefing.

Jenny went over how Giovanni and she met. How they decided to start a
pokemon club, how their realtives, (George and any other Jennys) became
jealous and framed Team Rocket for a crime. When TR saw the giant stir a
small crime they didn't even commit caused, TR turned quickly to the darker
side of the law. Jenny kept talking and talking and talking... I kept
turning my mind over for where I had heard of Team Rocket.

Then it came to me, it was the organization that George was trying to hunt
down. I wanted ANY way to hurt or damage George ANY WAY POSSIBLE! Jenny was
still rambling on, I stepped forward from the back of the crowd. I
interupted her in mid-rhetoric... "Where do I sign up?"

As most of the group walked through the hallway, (GP and Gio had split off)
the sound of our shoes echoed off the polished marble. Rocket HeadQuarters
was hidden in the bushes that Jenny had walked out of. Behind the basement
type door two pair of guards stood waiting for anyone unexpected to waltz
through the door.

Jenny pointed in this door, and pointed in that room, and made sure we'd
seen all that any visitors would normally see. Had she not become 2nd in
command of a worldwide evil corporation she would have made a great tour
guide. She had even gotten us coffee, even though I didn't drink coffee I
hated to refuse such a kind offer.

As we neared the Human Resources department, I started to look at pictures
of TR members. While its not the most brilliant idea in the world to hang
pictures of undercover spies in plain sight, one I saw did catch my
attention. "Well, I'll be..." Kat walked back to where I stood.
"What is it?"
"That's my brother and sister! I don't know the little furball in the
middle though..." The picture was my brother had obviously just had somebody
step on his foot, while sister pulled back her leg from smashing the foot
had just received a small swipe of claws from the small furball whose tail
had just been stepped on by my brother whom was hopping around. The caption
read, "Operatives Meowth, and Jesse and James Silph."

By now the group had assembled around the picture.
Skunk: "Those are your siblings? Man I feel sorry for you..."
Stryker: "Its my fault really."
Kat: "Why, they didn't get enough love and attention as children?"
Stryker: "No... I sucked all the good traits out of the gene pool before
they had a chance at them."
Jenny: "Now its no time to dawdle! Lets meet the hierarchy of Team Rocket!"
As Jenny's comment thrilled and invigorated us, (I'm being sarcastic) we
skulked along until we reached the room marked TR Hierarchy. "Boy, I'd SURE
hate to have ta find my way around here if I was an assassin..."

"You've already met GP and Giovanni," She pointed out the rest of the
members in the room "This is Rocket Breeder, she comes up with new and
exciting pokemon!" A small girl of about ten years waved at our group, I
found it hard to believe that TR's manpower shortage was THAT bad.

The next person in the room turned out to be Jay, Personel Management, the
stocky young man wore a cape like mine, only difference is Jay had the
handle of a katana poking out from the cape. "Harold Sheifeild's your tailor
I see..."

He laughed, "Yeah, I met him in Cerulean, I was introduced to him by a
friend of mine. Maybe, you know him, does Lance ring a bell?" Jenny
interupted with the next introduction.

"This is uhh... DOCTOR, yes DOCTOR Oak," she took the group aside for a
minute, "He's the brother of Prof. Oak, the Pokemon Professor. But don't
confuse him with with Prof. Oak, He hates that..." She waved her hand into
the direction of the next person.

"This here is Jacques ClikClik, he's from France!" The tall skeletal-like
man wore a camera around his neck and a Growlithe sat heeling at his foot.
"Mee Name ez Jacques!"

Hawk reached over and grabbed his extended hand. "Nice to meet ya'
Frenchie!" Jacques stunned reaction didn't phase Hawk a bit as he strolled
over and plopped down onto a nearby couch. He kicked up his feet onto the
coffee table and looked as comfortable as a person could get; considering he

had just knocked a mug into the air and scalding coffee came pouring down
all over him.

Giovanni took over the briefing. "Now the only requirement to get into Team
Rocket is that you must have a good showing against one of us to enter Team
Rocket. Looks like two of the TR people will have to take a pass though..."

Of course I knew Oak would more than likely demolish his opponent (There
was something in his eyes that indicated an insane thought, just bouncing
around in his head trying to get out.)

I just had to wonder what Jenny, Jay, Jaques, GP, and Gio had up their
sleeves. Then I thought, I wonder what about Team Rocket attracts people
whose name start with the J/G sound...

The TR Names were dropped into a hat, for us to draw from. I then asked a
question, not for my sake but for the others, "What if we don't want to
join?"
Gio: "Well then! You're free to leave!" I looked around, Kat, The one I
expected to have reservations stood as firm as anyone else.

Kat: "I owe it to that bitch Jenny, She would have just let my pokemon get
stolen and couldn't have cared less." She reached into the hat and drew out
a name, "Jenny. Oh, I'm sorry I didn't mean that..." Jenny nodded that she
understood and Kat became silent.

Daemon: "Money, I'm short of it, Training doesn't pay well enough, and fish
is only a part time gig..." He reached into the hat and drew out the name of
Jaques.

Hawk: "BOOM! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" He yanked the hat away from Daemon and dug in
and grabbed the name of Evil Oak! He twitched and started up his maniacal
again.

Skunk: "I'm here to make sure that the cruel, *sob* mean Lieutenant gets
*sob* what he deserves." At that point his sadness turned to rage and pulled
out Jay's name.

Knowing I was screwed by pulling out either of the remaining names, I
removed my glove and cautiously reached in and pulled out the name on top.
As I read it my spirits sunk, I was challenging the leader of Team Rocket to
a one-on-one pokemon match. GP snapped his fingers and walked over and sat
down in the couch to watch the ensuing matches.

"You ready?" Kat asked politely. Jenny nodded and simultaneously they
grabbed their first pokeball.
Kat: "Go Arbok!"
Jenny: "Go Jigglypuff!"
The pokemon looked at each other for a moment until jigglypuff realized it
was rather out-classed. "JIG!!!" It yelled as Arbok grabbed it and shook it
until Arbok decided to throw it against the wall. After Jenny returned
Jiggly she tossed out Clefairy.
Arbok dispensed with Clefairy in a similar manner, THEN the rattata, THEN
the Meowth, and finally she finished off Jenny's last pokemon, a MagiKarp
Jenny had bought off Daemon.

After the match and realizing that she'd won Kat was rather stunned. "That
was it? This was the best TR had?" Later she realized that the pokemon Jenny
used were basically just for cuteness, she had much stronger pokemon that
she just didn't like much.

"Alright Jackie, you ready to set it off?"
"I am Ready for zu, puny zrainer. And don't call me Jackie!"
Jackie: "Growlithe go!"
Daemon: "MagiKarp go!" Daemon blushed. "He's all I got left!"
Jackie: "Growlithe Take Down!"
Daemon: "MagiKarp, Uhh Splash!" The Growlithe hit the MagiKarp hard sending
it sailing into the coffee table, once again coffee sailed through the air
and landed on its offender. This time however the assailant splashed around
in the coffee causing it to become very angry. "MagiKARP, Magikar, MagiDOS!"

As the fish writhed around its tail started to elongate, his jaws grew
larger, his fins became a helmet crowning his head, His eyes went from dumb
and idiotic, to fearsome and destructive.

Jacques took this opportunity to forfeit the match, and Daemon quickly
returned Gyrados to his pokeball, slightly afraid of the city destroying
ramifications of a gyrados released underground.

Both fighters laughed a sick, twisted laugh as they called out their
pokemon.
EOak: "VoltOrb GO!"
Hawk: "Geodude GO!"
EOak: "VoltOrb Self Destruct!"
Hawk: "HEY! That's my move!" The Voltorb shattered all over the geodude
badly damaging it. EOak sent out an Electrode.
Hawk: "TurnAbout's fair play! Geodude SelfDestruct!"

The match progressed in this fashion as both fighters sent out all manner
of exploding pokemon. Hawk eventually won because of the fact that EOak
exploded his Pokemon first. Glumly Hawk called back his last pokemon, "OK
Rattata, I guess we don't get to try out your new move after all..."

After he gave a good pre-game taunting Jay finally started the fight, "Not
that it matters, my superior training skills could CRUSH you alone but for
quarrels sake Abra GO!"

Skunk: "Chan-Lee go!" Chan-Lee sprung out of the poke-ball much farther
than normal, and started the match off with an unplanned body slam.
"CHAN-LEE!"

The hapless abra sailed across the room into a nice plastic fern that sat
in the corner. The fern rocked back and forth until it finally collapsed
onto the Abra. Now I don't know if you've ever been hit by a giant falling
plastic house plant, but if you have you know that they hurt!

Jay: "Grr... Abra return!" The unconscious abra once again became energy
form and sailed back home. "VoltOrb go!" "Chan-Lee?" The Volt Orb came out
directly at Chan-Lee's feet. "VOLTORB" Before Voltorb had a chance to do
anything, Chan-Lee picked it up and juggled with it a moment before he
dropped it and it fell to the ground.

The Voltorb was dazed and Chan-Lee, mad at it falling to the ground gave it
a strong kick! The Orb richoched across the room nearly hitting several
people, the Volt Orb came to land in another cup of coffee sitting on the
table. An electrical sizzing came from the coffee, "AUGH! VoltOrb Return!"
The VoltOrb flew back to the ball which it resembled so much. "Venonat GO!"

The insect popped out and yelled "VENONAT!!!!" Chan-Lee little shaken by
his close calls decided to win a match with skill. He jumped over to the bug
and took its antennae and used it to seismic toss the Venonat into the wall.
"Augh! I don't believe this! Venonat return! Pikachu GO!"

Giovanni interceded, "Come on, that's a good enough show. I'm getting
impatient! Stryker! Get yourself over here!"

Hawk: "Awww... I wanted to see the pikachu get thwacked too..."
Jay, Perturbed and angry, at himself, at Skunk, and at Gio for not thinking
he could make a come-back. "I shoulda let gastly out at first. None of
Chan-Lee's attacks would have affected him...."

"You ready trainer?" Gio Asked.
"Anytime you are..." I reached for RaiZap, I decided not to. I had no clue
what Giovanni was going to do. I needed someone expendable, someone I didn't
like. A revelation came to me as I reached to my belt and yelled "Pikachu
go!"

"Geodude! Make me proud!" I stood stunned. Certainly the leader of TR would
have better pokemon than Geodude. I looked at geodude, He had not evolved
because geodude's rates grow faster than Graveller's. While I was thinking,
Pikachu took things into his own paws. He quick attacked the rock. When Pika
landed, geodude lifted his hands and smashed Pikachu on the skull directly
into the ground, instantly rendering pikachu unconscious.

Since I wanted to prove myself I returned pikachu and pulled RaiZap's ball
from the belt and threw it so it landed near the plastic fern.
"Rairairairairai...chuchuchuchuchuchu" Her stuttering had returned meaning
she was full of electrictiy. She saw her opponent and grabbed the nearest
thing to her, the plastic fern, and started hitting geodude with it. When
geodude had grabbed onto the offending fern Raizap let loose a strong
thunder attack. The fern, taking in the brunt of the attack, evaporated and
left geodude standing holding the flower pot.

"RaiChu! Rai Rai Chu!" She cried, meaning "HaHaHa, foolish mortal! I know
what YOU'RE weak again!" She lept over onto the coffee table tipping it over
and sending all the coffee mugs crashing onto geodude. The searing coffee
splashed into the rock and started eating away at it! "Geodude Return!
Diglett Go!"

Gio's Diglett apparently was one of the stupidest digletts ever. It wore
funny glasses to be able to see. Gio demanded that his Diglett dig. It
popped into the ground to seek its prey.

Its a little known fact that creatures that dig follow sound waves to hunt
their prey. Raizap grabbed a book and started pounding the floor, until she
was at the wall and then started banging on it. A *Thunk* from below was
heard. The Diglett apparently had hit the Titanium casing the HQ was hidden
in pretty hard, hard enough to knock it out even.

Giovanni Panicked. "Diglett return! Uhh... SandSlash go! Raizap was
starting to look tired so I told her to go sit on the couch. By this point
it was clear that Gio preferred Rock/Ground pokemon. I drew Al from my belt
and proceeded to clean Giovanni's clock. After SandShrew, came Onix, and
finally, of course a MagiKarp that Daemon had sold.

Gio went postal. "If I can't even beat a simple trainer how can I possibly
lead Team Rocket!?! We're gonna hafta disband forever!
AAAAAUUUUGGGGHHHHH!!!!" Gio then disappeared.

GP walked up next to me. "Don't worry anyone, he does that every time he
loses. Give him thirty minutes and he'll be fine..."

I felt good inside. So did everyone else, Team Rocket finally had a
champion team. I yawned, I hadn't slept since rock tunnel way. Everyone else
seemed to be weary also. Jenny then directed us to private rooms. Tommorow
we'd be shown the rest of TRHQ. The part that only members got to see.
Member. We were members of Team Rocket. It felt GOOD...

Ash, Gary, and Prof. Oak I swear! They're gonna make it in eventually!
Speaking roles and everything! I Promise!