Pokemon Fan Fiction / Pokemon Fan Fiction ❯ LIFE without ROCKET ❯ Prologue ( Prologue )

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Pokémon or Team Rocket, as if it wasn't painfully obvious by the fact that I write fanfictions about them in my sad little life XD They be owned by Nintendo and lots of other people!

AUTHORS NOTES:
Well here's the start of a brand new fanfiction by mean (*YAY?*)
I was browsing through an old CD I had when I came across an old fanfic idea about Team Rocket members living together when the organization wasn't part of their lives anymore. After redesigning the storyline and adding some more characters (*Bashou and Buson from the Pokémon Crystal Special*) I decided to re-write it and hopefully get somewhere. One prologue and 2 Chapters later I seem to be getting somewhere :D YAY!
Anyway enjoy and please R & R

*~ LIFE without ROCKET ~*
By Togepi

PROLOGUE

A devastating fire, an unexpected attack... as the flames rose high over Viridian City alone stood a handful of figures watching the inferno, one of the few groups of people that were able to escape the fall of the organization that had been a part of their lives for so long...
...Team Rocket.

It seemed like another normal day in the TRHQ in Viridian city, the place had been under threat by two organizations from the Hoenn region which seemed to think Team Rocket were in their way of a complete take over of the Kanto and Johto regions.
Aqua and Magma.
Although their threat did not seem to phase the Team Rocket Leader, Giovanni, as a large smirk grew across his face as he petted his Persian behind it's years which made the cat like Pokémon purr with delight.

"Soon..." he grumbled under his breath, making his smirk grow wider than before."...very soon..."

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Jesse, James and Meowth were sat in the canteen at the TRHQ, all three looking down at the gruel which was being called lunch, but they were all very hungry beyond belief and it was free so ate it anyway.

Giovanni had unexpectedly called them back from the Hoenn region saying he had important business for them to attend to but although they had been back most of the day they still had heard nothing.

"Jesse! I heard you losers were back" came an amused snarl from behind them, the three of them looked up to see Butch and Cassidy stood behind them.

"I see the boss has bailed you out of jail again..." Jesse snapped back sharply.

"Something he would do only for us!" Cassidy laughed.

"Anyway! What brings you all the way back here?" Butch asked, joining in with his partner's taunting of them. "Last we heard you were somewhere out in the Hoenn region"

"That's none of your business, Botch!" James shouted back, making butch sigh and roll his eyes at the blue haired Rocket member.

"It's BUTCH!"

"The boss brought us back because he has something important for us to do!" Jesse sniped back at them, looking very proud of herself. "Told us to wait in the canteen today to hear our special mission!"

"He told us that too!" Cassidy snapped back. "We BEST not be working together!"

"For the first time in a long while, I agree with you..." Jesse replied in a moan, the possibility of having to work with her long time rival was a bit too much to bare.

Meowth looked up at his partners and their rivals, before looking around the canteen, it seemed rather unusually full even for lunch time. The cat felt a small glint of suspicion over come him as he tried to listen to everyone else's conversations and he was sure most people were excited over this "Special mission"

"So we're not da only ones..." he mumbled under his breath.

The arguing continued as the canteen filled up more and more with rockets from all levels, from normal grunts to elites, Trainees to scientists, it seemed like almost all the members we're gathered here.

The door to the canteen opened again and two elite rockets wandered in. both we're wearing the typical grey elite uniforms, but one was thin and slightly shorter than the other with long ice blue coloured hair while the other one was taller, a lot more well built with short blonde hair.

"Man! This place is packed!" the blonde haired one commented loudly as they began to make their way through the chattering crowd.

"I dislike crowds..." the one with the ice blue hair murmured to his partner as he dangerously eyed up everyone who he passed."...plus this "Special mission" seems a little odd to me..."

"Bashou, you're always so serious!" the blonde haired member laughed loudly. "You should learn to chill out once and a while, this special mission sounds like it could be fun! I hope I get to hurt something!"

"Typical Buson..." Bashou grunted before his partner pointed out a space by the back of the canteen which had a few less people. Bashou rolled his eyes at having to stand so near to such members who were below them but followed Buson anyway.

"HEY RUNTS!"

Jesse, James and the others all looked up to see Buson staring down at them with a huge mischievous and somewhat dangerous smile on his face.

"What do you want?" Cassidy sneered at the elite rockets. "Can't you see we are in the middle of something here!?!"

"I want you to get you're pathetic asses out of those seats!"

"Says who?" James snapped back, instantly regretting standing up to an elite rocket when Buson grabbed him by the front of his shirt and held him up in the air.

"Says me! Now will you move or not?"

"Hehehe! By all means, have my seat!" James giggled nervously. Buson smiled, then threw James to one side making him fall onto the table behind them.

"Give us a good reason to why we should move for you?" Cassidy snapped, showing she wasn't as easily intimidated by buson's rather bulky appearance.

"Because you are below us..." Bashou replied in his cold monotone voice. Cassidy was about to argue back when a sudden loud bang seemed to get everyone's attention.

"What was that?" Butch asked, looking slightly confused. "Sounded like an explosion of some sort"

More sounds began to become more clear as they seemed to near the canteen...shouting, screaming... then a few more explosions went off by the doors rocking the whole room throwing smoke and dust everywhere, making everyone begin to cough. Then as the smoke cleared a number of figures could be seen at the doorway. From the way they dressed the Rocket members instantly knew it was Team Aqua and Magma.

"But....don't they usually work against each other?" Cassidy asked out loud, then suddenly let out a scream as one Magma member through a grenade in her direction and exploded right beside her throwing her to the ground.

"ATTACK!" one of the Aqua members at the front commanded. On the command a swarm of people entered the room, slashing, swiping, fighting...

"Shit!" Bashou cursed as he carefully scanned the room for a quick exit, fighting this number of people was too troublesome for him, let alone dangerous for all of them. Quickly he spotted a fire exit and pointed it out to Buson. The two began moving quickly towards it, the others noticed them leave and decided to follow as did a few others.

The fire exit lead them into a small hallway in which they all began running up, as the last people came through it a sudden large explosion from the canteen completely blew up the entrance, rocking the whole building and knocking most people to their knees.

"Everyone keep moving!" Bashou announced over the panicked voices of the others.
Everyone did as he said and kept moving, despite many more explosions which threatened to bring the whole building on top of them.

Another large explosion once again knocked many people to their legs but as they all struggled to get up they could hear cracking above them. Looking up they saw the ceiling above them cracking and bits falling onto them.

"Damn! This place is gonna cave in any minute!" Butch murmured to himself. "We're gonna be buried in rubble if we don't hurry up!"

Bashou made the movement to everyone to keep moving so they did, desperately trying to keep to their feet everytime an explosion went off. Then suddenly the ceiling behind most of them caved in and a loud female scream could be heard. Bashou and buson made sure the group were still moving, telling them they can't go back for injured people, but as Butch turned around he saw a young girl, possibly no older than 15, with blonde curly locks behind him with her leg trapped under a large piece of the ceiling.

"Leave her!" Cassidy demanded to her partner. "It's only Domino, the bosses little suck-up..."

Cassidy carried on but Butch looked back at her, he couldn't just leave her, no matter how jealous of her Cassidy really was. With a huge sigh he went back to the scared girl and quickly pulled the heavy concrete off her leg. Scooping her up into his arms he ran to join the others as a final explosion went off making the whole passageway cave in just as they made it out.

The small group of rockets stopped for a while to catch their breath but soon realized that Team Aqua and Magma members were everywhere and a large group of them were yelling and screaming as the approached them.

"Damnit! EVERYONE MOVE!" bashou shouted as everyone got up and began to ran past him, but he stood still and called out his steelix.

"Bashou! What are you doing?" Buson called over to him.

"Someone needs to stall these guys..>" Bashou replied, not looking back at his teammate. "Lead the others to safety and don't come back for me!"

"But...Bashou...."

"DO IT!"

Buson stared at his teammate, not sure whether to leave him or stay.

"Bash..."

"GO!"

With that Buson made the quick decision to join the others so he reluctantly ran off not giving himself anytime to think about gong back.

"So all your friends deserted you?" came the voice of a Team Magma in front of Bashou, with a Houndoom by his side. Bashou just smirked at him.

"Heh, they're not my friends.... STEELIX USE IRON TAIL NOW!"

"Flamethrower Houndoom!"

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Buson slowed his pace and looked back at where Bashou was, his Steelix barely hanging in after a barrage of Flamethrower attacks, bashou couldn't get any room to attack himself. Then a Team Aqua member called out a Gyarados to use Hyper Beam which hit both Steelix and Bashou, knocking them both over.

"I'm going back!" Buson sneered, with that he turned around to the other members and told them to carry on without him before running back towards his teammate.

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The Team Magma member looked over bashou who was desperately trying to pick himself up off the floor but kept collapsing under the pain, he was sure the Hyper Beam had broken his ribs, it came at him at such killer force.

"Hehehe! Doesn't look like he's had enough, does it!" The Magma member sniggered to the member from Team Aqua behind him.

"Why....?" Bashou managed to splutter out of his mouth, laying on the floor in pure agony. "...why here? why you both? You don't usually work...together..."

"No usually we don't but in order for us to let our plans be known all over the world we both needed to take out the so called "Notorious" Team Rocket!" the Magma Member told him. "A mysterious man tipped us off on how to finish you all off but pointed out we needed to come together to do it!" with that he pulled out a gun from underneath his shirt and aimed it directly at bashou. "Don't worry, after this we're back to being enemies but for now we're united in bringing down your pathetic excuse for an organization... "

With that he pressed the trigger on the gun and it fired. Bashou closed his eyes but the bullet never hit him, it seemed to hit something metal. Opening his eyes he saw Skarmory in front of him.

"What?" gaped the Magma member as he looked past Bashou to see Buson stood some feet away, his Muk by his side.

"Takes more than a puny bullet to take Skarmory down! WHIRLWIND NOW!"

Skarmory used Whirlwind and knocked both the Aqua and Magma members over, Houndoom tried to fight back with flamethrower but Skarmory was too fast and just dodged all the attacks. As they were occupied with Skarmory Buson made it over to bashou.

"You okay?"

"You...came back..." Bashou replied, now laying as still as a statue as any movement caused the pain in his chest to become worse. "...You're an idiot..."

"I know..."

With that he lifted Bashou onto his back, picking up his Pokéball he managed to call Steelix back into it then called for Skarmory to follow him. As buson and his Pokémon moved off the Team Aqua member started to follow but as stopped by the member of Team Magma.

"Let them go, only a handful of them escaped...they'll give us no trouble..."