《Making the best of a Betrayal》 Chapter 1: Prepare for a new world Waking up slowly I find myself in a room with a Ceiling I¡äm not used to seeing. It is neither the black ceiling of my apartment nor the yellowish tinted ceiling with burn marks from the lab. No, this is a perfectly white ceiling as well as a white bed. Seems like I¡äm in some kind of Infirmary. How the hell did I end up here...? Wait, that¡äs right, JACKO! That two-faced shitstain betrayed me. From all the Ruckus Miramakes a door is opened. (???) "Ah, I see you¡äre conscious. Are you able to answer a few questions for me and my boss?" Who the hell is this Bitch? She¡äs not part of the staff, probably sent by that bastard Jacko. (Mira) "Piss off you piece of shit, and tell Jacko to go fuck himself as well as you, I will not disclose the research Data I got before working with him." The woman and Mira start glaring daggers at each other until a man in a smoking without the Tie or a fly enters. (???) "I don¡ät know who this Jacko is, but it was you who appeared in our base. You even destroyed one of our hot air Balloons with your fall. Well, I guess introductions are in order. My name is Giovanni the Leader of the group owning this compound named Team Rocket. Now for my first question: Who or to put it in better words, what are you?" Mira stares at the man as if he¡äs a Goblin that achieved Monkhood. (Mira) "What do you mean? Never seen a Lamia before? We¡äre not that uncommon, as for my name, since you were so courteous as to give me yours I shall give you mine. It¡äs Mira Jharmind." (Giovanni) "Well then Miss Jharmind, let¡äs get onething out of the way first. There are no such things as Lamias on this Planet, only Humans and Pok¨¦mon." Mira is now looking quite shocked like someone ate her favourite food from the company fridge. (Mira) "Oh shit... That bastard." (Giovanni) "What is it? More cussing in order? Or did you realize something you want to tell us?" Mira sighs (Mira) "Well seeing as you and your people saved my scaly behind, I will tell you everything. It all started yesterday or how long was I unconscious?" Giovanni looks at the Nurse while she flips through the papers. (Nurse) "You have been unconscious for about 2 days now." (Mira) "Well okay, then it all started 3 days ago." ---- 3 Days ago. Melrok Institute of Technology Development Branch ---- Mira was working on a Machine resembling a Disk. (Mira) "Hey Jacko, I need the Flux Emitter and the Void Mana Converter and then I¡äm done with the Transport Disk." Jacko promptly leaves the room and comes back with the two pieces. Mira promptly takes both pieces and installs them into the giant construct of wires and Metal. (Mira) ¡°And with that, we¡äre finally done, Jacko. This is going down in history. High Five!¡± Mira is holding up her hand for a High five of epic proportions however Jacko simply stands there and starts trembling and holding his hand in front of his mouth. (Mira) ¡°Jacko?¡± Jacko now starts laughing loudly in a creepy manner which starts to even scare Mira a bit. (Jacko) ¡°Well, well, well Mira¡­ Thank you for your contribution, but I guess this charade will have to come to a close now.¡± Jacko snips his fingers and fully armed people in Dark Armor stream into the room. (Jacko) ¡°You see, it was pretty hard to find a Technomancer who actually has the ability to invent this kind of thing. Call it bad luck, but we will have to make sure you won¡ät talk after we get everything out of you. Guards, knock her out.¡± ---- Team Rocket Base. Now ---- (Mira) ¡°And that¡äs the last thing I remember. They probably found my blueprints and Journal and therefore had no more use for me, so they most certainly used me as a Test Subject to see if the Teleporter works in the first place. Also judging by me being on another planet they probably wanted to kill me by sending me into space.¡± Giovanni is putting his hand on his chin and stroking it. (Giovanni) ¡°Why would he have to go undercover in the first place to get their hands on that Teleporter? Wouldn¡ät it be enough to simply kidnap you?¡± Mira now bursts out laughing whilst slapping her tail. (Mira) ¡°Ah yes, the good old hostage situation. Well, one person tried that with a Technomancer before and they built a Bomb into the invention that levelled a five Kilometer area and turned it into a giant crater. Well, he didn¡ät make it out alive either, but he wouldn¡ät have either way.¡± Giovanni is now looking slightly shocked that a Researcher would prioritize blowing up an entire place just because he got kidnapped. (Giovanni) ¡°Wait, you mentioned something called a Technomancer. What is that? Could you please elaborate?¡± Mira is now once again looking perplexed. (Mira) ¡°Does this mean you have no Job System?¡± Giovanni simply nods. (Mira) ¡°*sigh* Oh boy, how do I explain this one so someone without prior knowledge could understand¡­ once someone passes the age of Adulthood we get to do the Job Ceremony where we can choose which job we want to take. In my case that was the Technomancer, which basically allows me to alter or fuse technology to my liking. It¡äs also the reason why I can talk to you. I built a translator into my ears which converts your language into the soul of the words which basically tells me what you want to tell me and I do the same vice versa to speak to you.¡± Both the nurse and Giovanni look stunned and don¡ät react for quite some time in which Mira once again ogles the Room in which she¡äs in. (Mira) ¡®Damn, I can¡ät find any decent tech to repurpose here¡­ First thing on the list will be something to make me look more human because if this Giovanni guy is indeed right I will stick out like a sore thumb and I don¡ät want to get experimented on.¡¯ Giovanni seems to have snapped out of confusion first and he starts massaging his temples as if he¡äs got a headache. (Giovanni) ¡°Okay, I get the gist of it. You¡äre a different Species that got sent here from a different planet where you have jobs that allow you to do otherwise impossible feats. Well then here are a few problems I find in this whole thing: First of all, you¡äre not Human so you have to disguise yourself. Second of all is that you need Technology for your Job to even work and we don¡ät know if it¡äs compatible with our Technology.Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website. And last but not least is you have no common sense from around here. How do you plan to approach these problems?¡± Mira starts mumbling around for a bit and starts opening her mouth, but she closes it immediately afterwards and goes back to thinking. After a good five Minutes, she finally starts to answer (Mira) ¡°Well for the first problem there is a simple solution, a Wheelchair and some fumbling around with my ability to hide my tail and adding a pair of fake legs. The second problem you presented is by far the most important one¡­ I need something that is expendable in that case since Technomancy can get pretty destructive when it doesn¡ät work, or when it does work and the circuits are hidden. And by that I mean ¡°oops I broke it¡± destructive in case it works and full on disintegrated destructive if it doesn¡ät. And for the common sense part, I completely agree. You said you were an organization so could you spare some of your people in that regard for me? In return, I will use my ability for your group if it works here.¡± Giovanni simply pulls out a round, red and white ball with a protruding circle and hands it to Mira. (Giovanni) ¡°This is one of the most common and extraordinary items a company called Silph.co sells. It¡äs called the Pok¨¦ Ball. Basically, what it does it allows you to catch wild Pok¨¦mon and keep them inside them so they are always well rested when they come out since they run around enough in Pok¨¦mon battles.¡± Mira simply grabs hold of the Ball and gets to work. (Mira) ¡°Okay then let¡äs see, it¡äs way too heavy for plastic but to light, for it to be Steal or Iron¡­ so what does this button here do.¡± As she presses the button the Pok¨¦ ball expands. (Mira) ¡°Fascinating, a form changing Metal¡­ a form of rubber perhaps, but it¡äs to firm for that? Mixed with another substance maybe? Ah well, let¡äs crack it open and look at the goods inside¡± *Crunch* ¡°Oh my, this definitely looks interesting. Okay, I finally know enough about this balls layers now, so let¡äs get serious now, shall we. [Circuit Reader]¡± Mira''s eyes suddenly change from her normal snake-like pupils into rectangles with a bunch of transparent windows appearing in front of her head. Meanwhile, Giovanni and the Nurse look visibly stunned that she simply replaced her pupils with Holographic Monitors. (Mira) ¡°Ooooh, now would you look at that. A check to see which kind of Organic life form it is and it even saves the Mana Signature to it whilst refusing creatures of a certain genetic makeup, guessing it¡äs human DNA. A basicmind control formula which only works in tandem with adrenalin and only goes as far as suggesting how to attack. Oh dear, which caveman designed that catch mechanic, this thing is a one-time use item that breaks if you miss¡­ Well, corporate greed I guess. Doesn¡¯t even scan for the rightful owner. This thing is such an ugly piece of shit¡­ wait, what¡äs this? HOLY SHIT! THIS THING ACTUALLY HAD AN INTERDIMENSIONAL STORAGE JUST CASUALLY PROGRAMMED IN?! If I tweak this part a bit I can hide my tail with this. Wait¡­ Mr Giovanni, you said this thing was common? A thing that defies space-time is actually common here?¡± After Mira started talking like a Machine gun Giovanni only got backfrom zoning out after she screamed out loud, since he and the nurse were not only stunned after the display of the thing she called Circuit Reader but also after she broke a Pok¨¦ Ball. Those things were supposed to be nearly indestructible so that you could catch a Pok¨¦mon in any kind of hazardous condition and she simply cracked it open like a peanut. (Giovanni) ¡°Well yes, these were invented in Ancient times that are far in the past and Silph.co recently discovered how to build these things at an affordable rate and on mass. The first of this type was invented Three hundred years ago and offered less control over a Pok¨¦mon¡¯s actions then now.¡± (Mira) ¡°Okay, so that settles the question of whether or not my ability can be used here. Next, I¡äm going to need a Wheelchair. Can Miss¡­ I don¡ät know your name.¡± (Nurse) ¡°It¡äs Nelly. And if you don¡ät mind I¡äd like an apology from you.¡± Mira starts scratching her head. (Mira) ¡°Well Miss Nelly, why should I apologize to you aga¡­. Oh, wait, the Jacko thing. Sorry I get a bit sidetracked sometimes. I¡äm sorry about the insult, but could you get me the Wheelchair nonetheless?¡± Nelly simply sighs. (Nelly) ¡°Fine, be right back. Boss, the Security cams are still on in case she tries something." After Nelly walks out the door, the room gets pretty silent since Mira and Giovanni don¡ät have any topic to talk about for the time until suddenly Mira starts to fidget around. (Giovanni) ¡°What? Don¡ät tell me you have to go to the toilet now that Nelly is gone.¡± Mira starts to blush. (Mira) ¡°NO! It¡äs just this thing was way too high tech for it to be cheap right. Even if it was only a one time use thing.¡± Giovanni simply starts snickering. (Giovanni) ¡°No. I¡äm not joking this thing only costs about 200 Pok¨¦ En, The average Salary here in Kanto is around400Thousand Pok¨¦ En per year.¡± Mira simply looks at him astonished. (Mira) ¡°You mean to say¡­ that an Interdimensional Storage is sold for basically the price of Candy?¡± Giovanni shakes his head. (Giovanni) ¡°No. No. No. More like a fast food meal from a non-chain store.¡± Mira starts mumbling again until she¡äs distracted by the door opening and Nelly pushing in a Wheelchair. (Nelly) ¡°I¡äm back Boss, one Wheelchair on the house. Courtesy of Medical section Chief Nelly.¡± Mira starts ogling the Wheelchair and slowly slithers out of bed only to instantly get back into the bed. (Giovanni) ¡°Is something the matter?¡± Both Nelly and Giovanni look at her, not sure why she slithered back into the bed. (Mira) ¡°The Floor is way too cold for me. I¡äm cold-blooded, meaning I lose my Energy when it becomes cold, and the floor is basically on the Level of Ice.¡± While Mira is complaining Nelly pushes the Wheelchair to her bed. (Mira) ¡°And also, why is it so cold here in general? When I got betrayed it was still summer so I don¡ät have my Tail warmer with me. Oh, wait¡­ being in a different world doesn¡ät mean it has to be the same season as where I came from. Oh and thanks for bringing that closer, Nelly.¡± Nelly simply nods while Giovanni rubs his temples. (Giovanni) ¡°Do you always drift off and talk so much?¡± Mira simply shakes her head. (Mira) ¡°No. At least not often, well except when it concerns Technology or complaints then I can rant enough to fill a few hours. Well enough sidetracking let¡äs get to work on the Wheelchair then [Code Overwrite].¡± Mira once again gets to work on the Pok¨¦ ball and rips out a small piece of the Circuit board, then she sends small blue Tendrils from her Fingers into the board which slowly starts to rearrange itself and now no longer looks like something that got broken off. Afterwards, Mira wipes the sweat off her face. (Mira) ¡°Phew, that¡äs always the hardest part. Okay, I¡äm done with the Storage it now recognizes my Tail as something it should store while converting the Mass inside into Legs. Now I just have to install it into the Wheelchair and my disguise is all set.¡± Once Mira stops talking she uses the blue Tendrils which go under the seat of the Wheelchair with the Circuit she rewrote. Once the Circuit and the Tendrils are inside the seat one of them rips open a small hole in the middle with a Button sticking out of it. Meanwhile Nelly and Giovanni stare in awe until she pierces a hole in the Wheelchair which makes Nelly frown. Once all the Tendrils stop moving Mira gets her tail out of the blanket she rolled it back into and places it on the button, which makes a light clicking noise and suddenly Mira''s tail turns into red light like when one captures a Pok¨¦mon until she is stuck on the seat and her tail is nowhere to be seen. However, suddenly a sick crunching noise starts accompanied by Mira biting into the blanket and leaking muffled screams while suddenly stumps grow out of her lower body which forms into fully grown legs after three minutes of agonizing pain for Mira. While that was happening Nelly left the room to puke and Giovanni can only stare disgustedly at what he just witnessed. (Mira) ¡°Fuck my life¡­*wheeze* I¡äm never doing this again until I can get something to kill the noise and more importantly the fucking pain. Well, at least that solves two of the Problems we discussed Giovanni.¡± Giovanni, whilst still not having recovered from Mira''s little performance has to suddenly continue his talk with her whilst keeping his Lunch where it belongs. (Giovanni) ¡°Yes, I can see that¡­ is your ability always this¡­ well, powerful?¡± Mira weakly shakes her head as she clearly hasn¡ät got enough energy to continue the conversation for much longer, and who would if the equivalent of your legs were chopped in two for three minutes without painkillers. (Mira) ¡°No, definitely not. Most things in my world are designed that Technomancers can¡ät fiddle with them, otherwise, we¡äd have way too many explosive life support machines, since not everyone has good intentions.¡± Giovanni only nods. (Giovanni) ¡°Well, I¡äm going to go to my office now and get some Grunts from our organization to become your guides and common sense Teachers in a way. And while I¡äm doing that you should rest and work on the Abomination you created. That was almost disgusting enough to throw up, even from my standards.¡± With that Giovanni leaves the room and Mira now realizing that if she wants to rest in a bed she has to do this procedure again this time having it fuse together and pales at the pain this could bring. (Mira) ¡®Oh damn I should really think more before acting, that was so dumb of me. Well, let¡äs hope the deactivation makes me go unconscious from the pain.¡¯ After her train of thought concluded she lifts herself up from the Wheelchair which releases the button and turns Mira''s fake legs into red light, which is just the mass of her Tails recalibrated to look like legs. This time Mira can¡ät even grab the blanket from the pain that suddenly assaults her and falls down whilst convulsing. Hearing Mira scream once more Nelly who comes back from her Vomit break runs inside to see Mira''s tail growing back to its former length while she is on the floor and cramping up. Seeing this Nellies Nurse training kicks in and she administers first aid by making sure she can¡ät bite of her Tongue or do any other kind of damage to herself until Mira simply falls unconscious. After Nelly notices that Mira stopped struggling she picks her up and places her back in her bed, this time with two new Blankets seeing as she chomped through the first one in her first test of the Wheelchair. (Nelly) ¡°I sure hope for you this does no long-term damage, you scatterbrain. After all, that¡äs happened today I think I need a drink. A hard one preferably.¡± Saying that Nelly goes out of the room and says goodbye to her colleagues and disappearing towards the bar afterwards while Giovanni disappeared into his office to get Mira some escorts. Chapter 2 Prepare against trouble --- Team Rocket Base, Giovanni¡¯s Room Giovanni POV--- By Arceus, that was the most disturbing shit I¡äve ever seen. First we get a Human Arbok Hybrid that crashes one of our Hot air Balloons, then she wakes up and tells us she¡äs from another world and then to top it off she does that shit with the Wheelchair. That¡äs probably going to haunt my dreams for at least a month. After trying to calm down for the last hour there¡äs a knock at the door to which I promptly allow entry. It¡äs Steven my Secretary. (Steven) ¡°Welcome back boss. Did you find out anything about that thing?¡± (Giovanni) ¡°Yes, I did. Did you know that she¡äs not from this world?¡± Wow he really looks like a Magikarp with that shocked expression. (Giovanni) ¡°Yes, I know. Sounds unbelievable, however it¡äs true. Her abilities alone are stronger than any Psychic we¡äve seen before, however her abilities are focused on Technology only. The worst part of it is that she¡äs an Air Head who changes topics at the drop of a hat and doesn¡ät even test new inventions before testing them on herself without any Fail-Safes. I mean just before I left she used her Ability to make Legs out of her Tail. Now that would not be so bad¡­ if she didn¡ät forget to shut out the pain and don¡ät even get me started on the noise. That¡äs just Nightmare fuel.¡± And now I have to get someone to watch over her, I clearly don¡ät want to do this myself, because I like being Sane. (Steven) ¡°Well I¡äm going to go through the register and look who can take the most punishment physically and mentally and send you the options I find. If you¡äre like this after a short visit I don¡ät want to know what happens when someone has to be with her for longer than a few hours.¡± Ugh. Whoever gets this job has to get a raise and Mira should probably get an allowance as well. I guess I should start up my PC, it should have finished the updates I installed this morning. (Giovanni) ¡°No. I think I will reassign one of our currently failing active Teams to her so you can start looking at viable alternatives to replace that Team. However I guess we should supply her with at least one Pok¨¦mon right?¡± Steven starts thinking for a bit while walking around the room and mumbling something I can¡ät clearly understand. (Steven) ¡°Well if she made those legs, can or can she not walk with them?¡± (Giovanni) ¡°Can¡ät. As soon as she stands up they turn back into her tail.¡± (Steven) ¡°Well, then I think we should supply her with either a Fighting or Psychic type Pok¨¦mon, since pushing a Wheelchair all day long will be exhausting and even the Grunts won¡ät agree to do this kind of work.¡± Right. I should¡äve thought of that before. (Giovanni) ¡°Hmm the choice is going to be hard. Can you give me a List of all the ones we currently have in stock?¡± Steven nods. It¡äs nice to have such a capable secretary. While Steven leaves the room I log into my PC and check the Mail to see if any of the Grunts managed to capture their target. Let¡äs see¡­ Team 82 took that Kingler from that Fisher who used it to destroy his rivals boats. Team 24 captured the Hypno that was causing trouble. Team 93 got destroyed by the rampaging Nidoking and Nidoqueen, damn guess that¡äs going to get hairy if we don¡ät deal with that. I guess Archer should be able to clear that problem. Team 69 captured a bunch of Zubats¡­ Who the hell started this inside joke that Rocket Grunts should have a Zubat or a Golbat I swear I¡äll cut that Idiots pay by half for a month, we have way to many Zubats here in the base you could almost call it Zubat canyon. Team 50 was finally successful andliberated all the Dittos of that breeder scum. Gentle old couple my ass, using Dittos as breeding slaves just to get that one perfect Pok¨¦mon after another and then selling them all to the black market. Speaking of which how did the Team in charge of capturing it do in the last year? Ah there it is Team 142 once again got blown up in a Mech the Technology department gave them. How dumb are those two, if it didn¡ät work the first time it won¡ät work after 50 times either. Well at least they got enough data for another team. Time to give them their new mission. Whilst thinking I press the intercom button (Giovanni) ¡°Steve. I think I will reassign Team 142 and have you look for another team to take the Job of capturing that Pikachu. Before that please concentrate solely on what Pok¨¦mon we should assign Miss Jharmind.¡± (Steven) ¡°Roger Boss. So we¡äre assigning Jessie, James and that talking Meowth to Miss Jharmind?¡± (Giovanni) ¡°Yes. They failed once again to get that perfectly bred Pikachu. But there are also good news. Team 50 got the Dittos out of that Breeding ground. At least now they got stopped and we won¡ät hear from them again, since Team 50 also burned their breeding ground to the ground.¡± (Steven) ¡°Well the Trainer most likely doesn¡ät even know where it came from originally. Got it as his first Pok¨¦mon from that crazy old Professor.¡± Urgh don¡ät remind me of Oak. To think I once respected that Maniac, turned out he got those perfectly bred Pok¨¦mon from the black market to give his Town an advantage in the Pok¨¦mon League that slimy old bastard. (Giovanni) ¡°Let¡äs not talk about that old man ever again. He ruined our reputation and made us look like a criminal organization. Not that some of our grunts make it any effort to make it look differently. Anyway, how many fighting and Psychic types have we got left here?¡± Steven seems to be furiously typing into the Database program. (Steven) ¡°Well Boss, we got quite a bunch of Mankeys and Primeapes, but those are from the aggressive sort, so more like grunt material not assistance. Otherwise the fighting Types are all already in use by other Teams. For Psychic types we have the Kadabra that got rescued from a breeding farm, the Mr. Mime that caused trouble with Barriers in Celadon the Slowpokes that we rescued from those fake Rockets in Azalea and that¡äs currently it for unused Pok¨¦mon.¡±Support creative writers by reading their stories on Royal Road, not stolen versions. Hmm that¡äs quite the selection we¡äve got there. (Giovanni) ¡°I think we should provide her with the Kadabra. It could help with the Wheelchair in case she gets tired. Now that we¡äve settled that I¡äm going to leave you to choosing which Team would be able to get that Pikachu and I¡äm going to send that Recall order out to Team 142.¡± After a simple Roger Steven hangs up the call and I start writing the Mail for Team 142.
Team 142, this Mail is a Recall order, you¡äre getting reassigned to a different Mission and another Team will take over the Mission you¡äre currently on, we¡äre currently deciding who that will be. Anyways head back to the Canyon base ASAP and get the briefing about your newly assigned Mission. Giovanni
And send. Now I just have to hope they get here soon, since they¡äre only half a day away. And while waiting for them to come back I¡äm going to have some quality time with Persian since it waited so patiently for me to be done with work. (Giovanni) ¡°Come here you little Fluffball. You like it when I scratch behind your ear huh?¡± While Persian is enjoying a good petting plus ear scratching Team 142 is reading the Mail they just received. (James) ¡°Uhm, Jessie?¡± Jessie looks over to James. (Jessie) ¡°Yes? What¡äs the matter?¡± (James) ¡°We have go back to the Canyon base, we got a Recall Order.¡± Jessie is visibly shaken from James words and starts shivering. (Jessie) ¡°Oh please no. We probably failed way too much and are probably going to get fired.¡± James hurriedly runs over to her side and pats her on the back. (James) ¡°I wasn¡ät finished. The boss pulled us from this mission and is reassigning us to another one. That means no more Twerp hunting.¡± (Meowth) ¡°You know James. You could¡äve really said that earlier and spared the two of us the near heart attack.¡± James simply sighs and holds his hands in the air as if he¡äs gesturing that he¡äs giving up. (James) ¡°Fine, fine. Now let¡äs get going already we don¡ät want to keep the boss waiting.¡± (Jessie) ¡°Can we at least finish eating or do we have to eat in the Balloon?¡± She says as she holds her Meal up at him. (James) ¡°The boss said ASAP, so I guess we¡äll have to eat in the Balloon or do you want to explain to the boss why we¡äre late?¡± Jessie looks at him with a smug expression and swallows her food. (Jessie) ¡°It¡äs not like he¡äll notice.¡± James now looks visibly annoyed and takes out the Pad every grunt gets. (James) ¡°In case you slept through the end of Rocket Academy this thing has a GPS Tracker on it in case one of the teams gets into trouble.¡± Jessie is now no longer looking so smug and color drains from her face, before rushing into the Balloon and starting it up. (Jessie) ¡°Then what are we waiting for? Get in already and let¡äs blast off.¡± ---Meanwhile, Rocket Canyon Base, Secretary Desk Steven POV--- Steven is currently looking through Idle Rocket Teams he can assign the task of getting an overcharged Pikachu from a Trainer who got it as his first Pok¨¦mon. Let¡äs see¡­ According to the Data we got from all the destroyed Mechs this Pikachu has the Electrical output of a small Power Plant, so let¡äs look for Grunts with a good Ground Type in their repertoire. Hmm Team 31 has a Rhydon, but they¡äre known to get violent with the Trainer that owns the Target Pok¨¦mon and we don¡ät want an 11 year old killed for some breeder scums deeds, so they¡äre out, as well as Team 8, 95, 100 and 123. The only ones left would be Team 130 with their Sandslash and Team 62 with the Golem, but both of them are pretty weak in terms of Pok¨¦mon available. Might as well make it a two Team Job then, even if the Boss will hate it. Pressing the Intercom Steven connects with Giovanni. (Steven) ¡°Boss, I¡äm finished with the selection on that bred Pikachu Job. Only two teams would have a small chance. But that¡äs only if they work together.¡± The boss sighs and curses in a small voice. He really hates having multiple Teams on one job. Well it¡äs understandable, the last time he did a five Team job they had a rat in their midst and all of them got killed except for the rat. But at least that wasn¡ät for long since the boss took him out personally. (Giovanni) ¡°So the only way we can get that Pikachu is with two teams huh? Okay then, tell me the Team numbers.¡± (Steven) ¡°They¡äre Team 130 Jack and Lia and Team 62 Harald and Ethan. I chose them because that Pikachus Output is on the Level of a small Power Plant and both Teams have a strong Ground Type Pok¨¦mon, the other teams would be way to violent on the Trainer and he¡äs only eleven but close to twelve.¡± (Giovanni) ¡°Yeah¡­ that¡äs probably for the best. Even if I don¡ät like it. Since that settles the last affair of today I¡äm gonna say we¡äre both done for the day. I need my bed after everything that happened today.¡± (Steven) ¡°Roger Boss. Have a good night.¡± And with that I¡äm off to the Bar. At least the boss had this base built that we don¡ät need to leave the base for anything, well except for brothels but most of us don¡ät even like them, me included. When I arrive at the bar I start hearing loud shouting. Oh great¡­ Nelly got drunk again. She¡äs kind of infamous here in the base as the worst drunk of Team Rocket since she gets loud, violent and abusive in terms of language so I start to back out of the bar where even the Barkeeper has taken cover. (Nelly) ¡°Who¡äs the cunt that opened the door? Oh hey it¡äs Steven the old Killjoy, hows it hangin¡ä you bag of bones?¡± Great¡­ she noticed me. I start slowly backing out of the door when a barstool whizzes past me. (Nelly) ¡°WHO SAID YOU COULD LEAVE YOU SHITSACK! YOU¡äRE GONNA STAY HERE AND LISTEN TO MY DAY AND YOU¡äLL LIKE IT! UNDERSTOOD?!¡± Fuck my life. Well no choice around that so I grab the Barstool she threw at me and sit down beside her at the Bar. (Steven) ¡°Hey Roland. One drink on the weaker side, busy day tomorrow.¡± Roland, knowing exactly what I mean serves me my drink in a flash and Nelly is grabbing another glass of what I can only assume is the strongest stuff Roland has here. Wow she and the Boss must¡äve been really disturbed by that Snake Woman if she breaks her own ban on anything harder than cocktails. (Nelly) ¡°So¡­ Steven, this day¡­ this fucking day¡­ I don¡ät want to remember anything about it. You know that Snake bitch that dropped and smashed into one of our Balloons right?¡± Yeah. I had a feeling she¡äd be talking about her. (Steven) ¡°Yeah. Boss made me assign her a helper Pok¨¦mon and made Team 142 her bodyguards slash common Sense Teachers.¡± Nelly sighs out pretty loud. (Nelly) ¡°THANK FUCK! BECAUSE THAT WOMAN HAS NONE TO BEGIN WITH! She literally destroyed a Pok¨¦ Ball, took out the capturing Mechanic, and wrote something else into it which converted her tail into legs. Now that wouldn¡ät be so bad, if it weren¡ät for the noise, it was like hearing a person being thrown legs first into a fucking wood chipper and the person screams their soul out throughout the entire procedure. I just want to wipe my fucking memory of today and I¡äm telling you this so you can remind me to tell her to do something about that, because that stupid CUNT will probably do this again. In fact, she did that shit twice. Because the same happened in reverse when she stood up. Now if you¡äll excuse me, I¡äll go puke my fucking guts out. BUH-BYE!¡± She yells as she wobbles to the toilets and even selects the mens toilet by accident. Wow that really must¡äve hit her hard since she¡äs used to seeing almost lethal burns from fire, acid, frost, you name it. But I guess it¡äs different if you hear the sounds that lead to it in the first place. (Steven) ¡°Hey Roland. You got any Paper and a pen lying around? Need to write it down before I forget it. And can you get Nelly to her Room after that? I¡äm pretty sure she passed out on the Toilet.¡± Roland simply grunts, hands me an A5 Paper and a Pen while he gets Nelly out of the Toilet with her leaned on his shoulder, which would look kind of cool if Nelly wasn¡ät two heads bigger than him. Handing him the Paper with the Notes for Sober Nelly I start walking towards my Room as well. On this day I fell asleep as soon as my face hit the Pillow. Chapter 3: Prepare for a new Backstory ---Team Rocket Base, Infirmary, Mira POV--- Waking up I see a white ceiling making me realize, this is not my home. Wait, I get a sense of D¨¦j¨¤ vu from that¡­ Oh right, I fainted yesterday. Okay, that wasn¡ät part of my plan for fitting in with the people of this world. Well, I could probably kill off the Pain receptors in my Tail and therefore new legs since I can¡ät use them anyways and put a noise cancelling barrier over it while it transforms. Hmm, I could¡äve also integrated it into my Tail in the first place, not the first time I upgraded myself. No, wait that won¡ät work I don¡ät have a storage Medium if I integrate it into my tail since that¡äs what has to be stored and converted in the first place. I really should warm up, otherwise, I might get stupid Ideas again. Let¡äs see, is there any kind of circuit around here that I can abuse borrow and reprogram it into a heating module for this blanket¡­ (Giovanni) ¡°You¡äre up early Miss Jharmind.¡± Oh, there¡äs the guy from yesterday, what¡äs his name again? Gio- something. (Mira) ¡°Oh G¡ämorning Gioventi.¡± (Giovanni) ¡°It¡äs Giovanni, but close enough, at least you didn¡ät try to sit in that Wheelchair again as soon as I came here. I even had to use a Drowzy to get rid of my Nightmares, but that isn¡ät what I¡äm here for. No, the reason I¡äm here is so we can get you a background that others can actually believe. To be honest I put out a gag order for what happened when you landed here so only about 12 people know that you¡äre a Human Snake Hybrid. So¡­ any Ideas?¡± Ugh¡­ Question and Answer as soon as I wake up and not even time to get heated up in peace. (Mira) ¡°Ugh, can we do this later? My body temperature is way too low for that right now. I¡äd need about 3 more hours to be functional in terms of thought process. You¡äre probably asking yourself why and the answer is simple: I don¡ät want to repeat what happened yesterday because if I don¡ät get my body temperature up my mind gets muddled and I start drifting off from the original topic we¡äre talking about and stop thinking things through completely.¡± Giovanni sighs, wow he really has that one down. It¡äs just the right mix between apathy and disappointment. (Giovanni) ¡°I¡äd like to do just that and not lose any more brain cells from your airheaded antics, but your new escorts arrive in about 2 hours and I have to explain to them who they are escorting slash guarding and teaching. Therefore I brought a Fire Type Pok¨¦mon with me, Go Growlithe.¡± That Pok¨¦ Ball thingy seems to open just fine, so it¡äll open if you have something stored inside, hmm seems like I crushed that part of the Circuit when I cracked mine open. The Light from the Interdimensional Storage suddenly takes shape into something that¡äs about as high as this Bed and it takes the form of a Dog? looking thing. (Giovanni) ¡°This here is as I already said, Growlithe. It¡äs a Fire Type Pok¨¦mon and therefore usually have a higher body Temperature than other Pok¨¦mon.¡± Saying that this Growlithe thing hops into my bed and wow it really is warm the little bugger. (Mira) ¡°This one will help tremendously. Thanks for that, but can you come inside the blanket Growlithe?¡± With an affirmative Bark the Growlithe goes under Miras Blanket and lies itself on her tail. After ten Minutes Mira takes the Growlithe out of her blanket. (Mira) ¡°Thanks, buddy, that¡äs enough I¡äm now on a manageable temperature.¡± Seeing that Growlithe is no longer useful in this situation Giovanni returns it to its Pok¨¦ Ball. (Mira) ¡°Right¡­ so, should we make something up for my personal History?¡± Giovanni slaps his hand right into his face. Wow, what a sound. (Giovanni) ¡°That¡äs what we were talking about before you went off topic and talked about body temperature. So, any Ideas?¡± He¡äs seriously asking me this? Wait I should probably confirm his Idea since he does seem kind of sleep deprived. (Mira) ¡°Let me get this straight. You want me, a person who¡äs on this very planet for one day, at least while conscious, to make up a backstory for herself in a place where she doesn¡ät even know the names of the beasts that roam around here or your Organizations purpose so we can say you found me on one of your activities.¡± He¡äs looking quite surprised. Wow, I must¡äve seriously been under working temperature yesterday if even this guy got so confused from my antics that he forgot I¡äm not originally of this world. (Giovanni) ¡°How the hell did I forget that? Well, I guess Introductions are in order just not for people this time but for this country, my organization and everything else. Okay, so where do I start¡­ Oh, right the country. We¡äre here in a country called Kanto it¡äs basically an Island that¡äs split into two by a large mountainside. The Neighboring country is called Johto with whom we got along very well over the years. Every country has eight Gyms were Trainers which we call people who handle Pok¨¦mon for a living can test their skill. The Gym leaders have to abide by the rule of one Type of Pok¨¦mon only and their teams have to match the strength of the Trainer challenging them. The way they determine this is by the number of Gym badges one has,and eight badges qualify you to take part in a Tournament for glory and fame. Previously we also had an elite four but they got disbanded. Now as to who I am, or more like who I was before becoming Team Rockets Leader. I¡äm Giovanni a former Gym Leader of Viridian City, however from time to time I noticed Pok¨¦mon near my area going missing, which was sad since I knew them since I was a young boy, but also strange since only the rarer Pok¨¦mon disappeared. Then on one day, I noticed one of my own Pok¨¦mon was missing. It was my Kangaskhanthat I had caught in the Safari Zone which is an area of Kanto were we honour old traditions and don¡ät try to weaken a Pok¨¦mon into joining us, we simply feed it and hope it likes us, or we provoke it and then catch it but I¡äm getting off track. So my Kangaskhan was missing and I had no idea where it was. It was so shocking to me that I closed the Viridian Gym down for at least a month. In that month I installed secret cameras on every house that had a rare Pok¨¦mon and from that, I finally got a clue from that when my best friends Venusaur got stolen. That¡äs right, someone had been stealing the rare Pok¨¦mon in Viridian City and they used some pretty sick methods which included hitting them on the head from behind with a metal bat so they fall unconscious and then transport them out with a Truck. A week after that I found the Truck they were using and hid under the Truck with my strongest Gym Pok¨¦mon which specialized in the Ground Type and followed them to their hideout. What I found that day changed me forever. They were Breeders. And not just any type of breeders, they were the Black Market kind that kidnapped rare or exotic Pok¨¦mon and milked them for as many Eggs as they could before getting rid of them. That night I killed around twenty People except for their Boss who I buried up to his Neck in the Ground and helped out as many Pok¨¦mon as I could. Sadly I was too late to save my Kangaskhan, it apparently died two days before I found their base because it became useless to them. After freeing the stolen Pok¨¦mon I tortured their boss to give me information on his Clients because I wanted to see them burn as well. He told me to go fuck myself with a Cacnea. Therefore I poisoned him and left him to his fate whilst turning their base upside down for any clues, turned out they had a bookkeeper which got a hole drilled in his face by my Ace, Nidoking. After searching through the entire room I found their bankbook and was nearly shocked to death, it turned out that the most famous person in Kanto was their backer, his name is Samuel Oak, Kantos Pok¨¦mon Professor. I always wondered where his nearly endless stock of rare Pok¨¦mon came from, turned out these guys bred the Perfect Pok¨¦mon in terms of Strength and gave those to him, the rest were considered ¡®breeding Trash¡¯ and either released or exterminated depending on rarity. The rarer they were the more likely the extermination to keep the price nice and high. When I returned I suddenly got attacked by 3 Police officers, however I got away by tunneling through the ground. Turns out I missed one of the scumbags and he informed Samuel who quickly pinned the crime on me saying I was dealing in illegally bred Pok¨¦mon and killed all those people to cover the Tracks. After that, I was a wanted man who couldn¡ät go anywhere except when in disguise. That¡äs when I remembered my Mother was actually the founder of an Organization called Team Rocket and she was getting old and asked me many times to take over. I always rejected her since I didn¡ät want to wash my hands in the blood of innocent people, but they left me no choice so I accepted her offer when I met her at that time. Now Team Rocket at that time wasn¡ät really a good organization by any means, I¡äm talking extortion, kidnapping, stealing etc. however I started changing that. Extortion became information gathering on Local Breeders, kidnapping became interrogation of Grunts that were Pok¨¦napping in the area and stealing became liberating of the captured Pok¨¦mon and rehabilitation in our bases and stealing from Money drop off Points they used. At one point I even got some of my old Gym Leader Friends to help me out, however, that was a Trap that this slimy old bastard prepared. One of them said he found a huge base of those breeders which hid under Silph Co¡äs building, so I sent five of my best Teams in there, only one of them survived and he¡äs currently one of my executives. He told me what happened, it turned out that one of my old Friends betrayed me and they set a Trap at the Silph Co. Base which killed everyone but him since he was the last to arrive and even then it cost him the Lives of two of his Pok¨¦mon just to get away alive. Since then I never enlisted the help of friends again and founded a place called Rocket Academy for as I like to call them ¡®Smokescreen Teams¡¯ basically they¡äre insanely sturdy in Mental and Physical ability who just cause Mayhem to keep the Law Enforcers from our actual goal to kill every single Illegal Breeder in Kanto and continue to think we¡äre a bunch of thugs and lowlifes. Of course Samuel isn¡ät happy with that and has started making fake Rocket Teams who do the things our people were known for back in the day to keep our Reputation deep in the Mud so we can¡ät return the Pok¨¦mon we freed from those Breeders since they would just capture the Returner Teams. Though we started getting rid of quite a few of them recently. Well, now you know everything concerning this Place and this Country.¡± Wow, I never imagined someone who looks so grumpy would actually have such deep motivations, but he didn¡ät have to tell me his whole life story, his motivations would¡äve been enough. But I guess I can work with this. (Mira) ¡°Have you gone out on a mission yourself in a while?¡±The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings. He looks like he understood what I want to say with it since he now smirks, wow he really does look like a crime boss when he smiles. (Giovanni) ¡°Good Idea Miss Jharmind and yes indeed I recently destroyed a Breeders Tech Lab where he experimented on ways to get strong Pok¨¦mons easier from breeding by drugging the Pok¨¦mon with Gene enhancing Drugs and destroying their free will. We can make your backstory the following: I raided that place with Nelly since we expected a minimal amount of Pok¨¦mon hurt and a bunch of dead ones, however, we also found you there who was kidnapped and got her Spine broken so you couldn¡ät run away.¡± Wow, that¡äs really dark. (Mira) ¡°Are those breeders really that unscrupulous?¡± He looks a bit crestfallen and even has a Tear running down his face. (Giovanni) ¡°Sadly yes. They try to kill most people who rat them out so either we get there in time and relocate them or we find them with ripped of limbs or burned to death with their entire house. At least in the last year, we cracked open nearly 70% of their bases, we even started working together with another Team from overseas named Team Crypto. They invented a way to repress a Pok¨¦mons Memories, however, we lost contact about a year ago, but we can at least seal the Pok¨¦mons Memories of the time when they were in those Breeders clutches.¡± (Mira) ¡°Okay, I¡äll take that Backstory. And by the way how do you usually crack those bases?¡± Wow, that evil Smirk again. Well doesn¡ät look so convincing this time around with the tear still falling down his face. Makes it look vengeful instead of evil. (Giovanni) ¡°Usually that would be a Multi-Team Job however since that betrayal incident I haven¡ät usually sent more than one Team out however we have specially formed Teams named ¡®Breakers¡¯ who specialize in Interpersonal Combat and Destruction of hidden bases. There are only five teams who deserve to be called Breakers currently. Four of them are spearheaded by my Executives Proton, Archer, Petrel and Arianna. The last Breaker Team is led by me and specializes in the biggest Branches in Kanto or R&D buildings.¡± Wow, so I have at least not landed in the hands of someone with evil intentions. (Giovanni) ¡°Okay, since we cleared the Background Issue do you want to upgrade your Wheelchair? Not that it matters since that Team is pretty used to being tortured. They even survived about 30 explosions at point-blank range.¡± Oh, so he didn¡ät notice. And Holy shit they must be freaking strong to survive Point Blank explosions and multiple times at that. (Mira) ¡°Uhm, nothing against you Giovanni, but I already finished working on the Wheelchair while you told me your life story. Also, the clock has gone around one and a half times so I guess that means my escort will arrive in half an hour of your time if I¡äm correct.¡± Giovanni looks at the clock astonished like he can¡ät believe he talked so much. (Giovanni) ¡°Well okay then, strap yourself in the Wheelchair and follow me to my office I will also give you a Pok¨¦mon as your helper.¡± I think he¡äs forgetting something. (Mira) ¡°Could you also give me a Circuit Board? Doesn¡ät matter from what since I see nothing here that can resist my Technomancy.¡± Saying so I lift my tail and press the button on the Wheelchair with it. My Tail once again turns into red light and flows into the Wheelchair. With me now sitting on it the Light once again forms itself but this time into legs and much faster than last time. Why the hell did I think it was a good idea to make the Cells form themselves instead of just manipulating the red Light to turn into legs with a Color change so my Legs are not green like my Tail? Ah, who cares at least it wasn¡ät painful this time so I slowly wheel behind Giovanni. On the way to his office there are a lot of people clad in grey, black or white with a red R on their vest, must stand for Rocket. No wonder that Law Enforcers find them all the time. (Mira) ¡°Ever thought of changing the design? They¡äre way too obvious no wonder Law Enforcers come once they appear.¡± Giovanni slightly chuckles like he expected me to say that. (Giovanni) ¡°Well, that¡äs obvious they¡äre from the Smokescreen Division or Grunts as the public calls them. They¡äre meant to be obvious. When we go out on real missions we only take the old Viridian City Arena badge as Identification.¡± Smart. Also, how big is this base? We¡äve been walking/rolling for around five Minutes of Melrok time since I don¡ät know how long Minutes are in this place. After another three Minutes, we arrive at his office and I roll over to the left of his Desk until I notice a giant white cat with a round red gem on its forehead. (Giovanni) ¡°Oh yeah, I should probably introduce you to my Persian. Say hi dear.¡± (Persian) ¡°Mreow.¡± Following the meowing, it stands up and brushes past my legs while purring like a chainsaw. (Giovanni) ¡°Oh yeah, you said you needed a circuit Board.¡± He presses the Intercoms button. ¡°Steven, can you bring me an object that runs on electricity?¡± I hear a simple Roger from the Intercom and then a click when I suddenly feel something on my hair and Giovanni is suddenly standing up. (Giovanni) ¡°No, Persian, you can¡ät chew on her hair that¡äs not a toy. Come here and lay right next to me like a good Persian. Sorry about that, she gets quite interested in long strands and because of that nothing here has wires or the wires are embedded into the wall since I don¡ät want her to fry herself.¡± Just fabulous¡­ now I have cat droll in my hair. I also haven¡ät bathed since I got here, STOP IT MIRA DON¡äT GET SIDETRACKED AGAIN! Thankfully there¡äs a knock on the door and after that 3 people and a cat on two legs with something sticking on its head enter. (Steven) ¡°Here Boss I got you a Fan. Hope that helps. Oh yeah, Team 142 just arrived and I took them here with me, hope that was okay with you.¡± Giovanni seems kind of happy while I get handed the Fan and start dismantling it. Finally, some low tier Tech that I won¡ät feel bad about when breaking it. (James) ¡°Boss, Team 142 reporting for duty.¡± (Giovanni) ¡°Thanks for coming so fast. I was expecting you to take maybe another ten minutes. Did you get a good drift for the Balloon or what? Oh right before I forget, Miss Jharmind these three are Jessie, James and Meowth from the Smokescreen division.¡± Urgh, can¡ät they wait until I¡äm done here *Crack*,*Crunch* ah finally opened that sucker up? (Mira) ¡°Not now, need to take pieces of this Circuit Board. [Circuit Override]¡± Okay, let¡äs take this and rearrange it into heating the object it¡äs attached to¡­ Now just fuse it with the Mana Tendrils for the fusion with this blanket and done. (James) ¡°What the hell was that boss? And who is she anyways.¡± (Giovanni) ¡°I think I should give Miss Jharmind the honour to explain everything to you since it seems like she¡äs done.¡± Oh just great¡­ self-introductions my favourite. God, they don¡ät look amused but then again, neither do I. (Mira) ¡°Well hi, you three first of all. Name¡äs Mira Jharmind and I¡äm a Technomancer, a subtype of psychics. I got kidnapped around a year ago and got forced to invent new Tech for a Breeder Cartel when your boss broke into the place and killed my supervisor. Well the reason I¡äm currently not standing up to greet you is cause they wanted to make sure I don¡ät run away when they leave me alone for the night so they broke my spine on the lower end so I can¡ät use my legs anymore but still my hands since otherwise, I¡äd be as useful as tits on a Reptile. And what I just did to that Fan was my Technomancy. However, currently, I¡äm not in the mood to explain anything extra regarding that. Oh yeah before I forget, I have a rare genetic defect which turned me cold-blooded, so if I start sleeping for more than 10 hours I¡äm under my regular Temperature and need to warm up otherwise I¡äll probably go into shock and die. And before you ask, no. I don¡ät need help bathing and prefer doing that alone. Also is that Cat really one of your Team members and not just some joke where the third one suddenly bursts through the vents to scare me right?¡± The two of them turned pretty quiet and even the two-legged cat stares at me. Then it suddenly opens its mouth. (Meowth) ¡°Now Lady That¡äs just rude. I¡äm a perfectly capable member of Team Rocket.¡± (Mira) ¡°The fuck? Did I upgrade my translator without noticing or am I still in shock, but did that Cat thingy just now seriously talk?!¡± (James) ¡°Yeah, it went to language school. Well not legally, but by listening from a hole in the ceiling.¡± Wow. So Pok¨¦mon can actually learn their language. This is actually getting interesting. (James) ¡°Well, I guess it¡äs our turn now Jessie. Well then guess I¡äll start, the name¡äs James I met Jessie back in School and we joined a gang together after that we went to Rocket Academy and until we got this new Mission we had to chase an eleven-year-old who has a perfectly bred Pikachu. Now that doesn¡ät sound bad in the first place, however, this bugger has a rare genetic defect from too much inbreeding on the breeders'' side and it¡äll probably only live for around 10 years if it doesn¡ät get treated and the only place where we can do that is here. However, as you¡äd expect we can¡ät just tell the kid the truth and expect him to believe us since to the public we¡äre still criminals.¡± Now the Woman with the Giant purple Hair mass that could fill the inside of my tail walks forward. (Jessie) ¡°Greetings Darling, I¡äm Jessie and as James already said, same school, same gang, then Rocket training School and now last two years Pikachu hunt. However my mother also was a Rocket Member, but that was before the reform happened.¡± Giovanni looks kind of stunned at what she just said. This is probably going to get interesting, too bad I don¡ät have any snacks here. What I wouldn¡ät give for a few crunchy fairies right now. (Giovanni) ¡°Your Mother¡­ what was her name?¡± (Jessy) ¡°Her name¡äs Miyamoto, she sent me to an orphanage before being sent on a mission.¡± He now looks even more stunned. Damn this is like a Drama. (Giovanni) ¡°I remember her. My mother was still the boss at that time and she was sent to search for Mew. We still get Messages from her sometime. Should I ask my Mother to call off her Mission?¡± Jessie has a really dark look on her face right now. Wow, if looks could kill she¡äd slaughter an entire town and wear their guts like an evening dress. (Jessie) ¡°No thanks. She chose Team Rocket over her 5-year-old daughter. She¡äs dead to me. Since we¡äre done here what exactly does the escort of Miss Jharmind encompass?¡± Phew glad to see we¡äre back on track, otherwise I would¡äve fallen asleep in this thing since it¡äs surprisingly comfy. (Giovanni) ¡°Glad you asked Jessie. Okay here¡äs the deal:
  1. Miss Jharmind isn¡ät from any of the Island Nations she¡äs from the mainland and her common sense is completely different from ours since some stuff she does is actually illegal here and vice versa.
  2. She wants to recover from the kidnapping accident so basically you get a paid vacation with a bit of scientist sitting and she chooses where to go. This also includes a pay raise.
  3. She¡äs going to be working in Rockets R&D Section for a while once the journey you go on is over.
  4. You¡äre going Incognito so get your Civilian gear ready and no using the Hot Air Balloon, we¡äve already taken measures to get you to a city from here.
And before I forget Miss Jharmind take this.¡± He hands me an already expanded Pok¨¦ Ball. Based on my observation so far that means it has a Pok¨¦mon inside it. Hmm, let¡äs let it out and see what my goodbye gift is. The Pok¨¦ ball opens and reveals a Humanoid Fox looking thing with a Mustache and strangely enough a Spoon. Why the hell does it have a Spoon? (Giovanni) ¡°That¡äs Kadabra one of the few Psychic Types we had in stock and Steven and I thought it¡äd fit you the best from the list we had.¡± Suddenly the Kadabra gets covered in a White Light which turns into an Oval and comes out with an additional spoon and a longer Mustache. (Giovanni) ¡°Wow. That shouldn¡ät actually happen. Usually, Kadabras should only evolve into an Alakazam if they are traded for a different Pok¨¦mon.¡± Wait, so Pok¨¦mon can also evolve by trading them to someone else? That¡äs pretty cool I must say, and pretty mean if you like that certain Pok¨¦mon but I guess you could always trade it back. (Giovanni) ¡°Well no use thinking too deep about it, otherwise I might go crazy if she stays here for much longer. Just one more thing before I close this conversation and let you be on your way, here Miss Jharmind take this. It¡äs a Pok¨¦ En Credit card to which I will transfer your payment and also your journey budget. It also automatically updates the amount written on the card so you can see how much Pok¨¦ En you currently have. Also should anything interest you Tech wise tell Team 142 to contact me I will prepare it here once your journey ends so you can work on it in peace. Okay with that we¡äre done here, now enjoy your freedom for a year or two Miss Jharmind¡± This guy seriously has a heart of gold. And a wallet of Platinum, but what else would one expect from a Leader of a group of former Gangsters. Let¡äs hope they have more interesting stuff like those Pok¨¦balls, if not I¡äll invent my own. Huhuhuhu this world will be so much fun, even if I had to be betrayed and get my research and achievement stolen by that bastard Jacko here I am more powerful than ever before. (Mira) ¡°Thanks, Giovanni. And I think once I return It¡äd be nice if you called me Mira instead. Well then new comrades, Let¡äs go! Adventure awaits.¡± Following Mira''s enthusiastic Wheeling out of Giovanni''s office, the newly evolved Alakazam follows her first since she now owns his Pok¨¦ball, followed by James, Jessie and finally Meowth who¡äs trying to flirt with Giovanni''s Persian. Once outside of his office Mira notices something of importance. (Mira) ¡°Uhm guys? Where is that vehicle Giovanni mentioned?¡± Both of them look at her shocked. (James) ¡°You mean¡­ you didn¡ät ask him where it is in the first place?¡± Mira now starts to scratch the side of her head whilst looking embarrassed. (Mira) ¡°Uhm¡­ Oops?¡± Jessie in response to that hits her face with her hand, James shakes his head and Meowth starts walking towards Steven. (Meowth) ¡°Hey Steven, sorry to bother you, but we¡äre now this Airheads Escort and the boss said a Vehicle was prepared. Where is that located so we can get there once Jessie and James get their Civilian Clothes?¡± Steven looks through his records and then stands up. (Steven) ¡°I already prepared the Casual Clothes. 3 Sets for each of you, easily washable variant. Also prepared Backpacks and every other necessity for Traveling on foot, car or public transport. Also, I¡äm going to bring you to Vehicle bay 5 since I currently have nothing better to do.¡± (Meowth) ¡°Thanks, Steven, otherwise we¡äd probably have to search each vehicle bay by ourselves.¡± Steven stands up and leads our newly formed group towards vehicle Bay 5 where their ride towards Fuchsia City lies in wait for them. Chapter 4: Prepare for a shopping Trip Their arrival at vehicle bay five is announced by Mira leaking a wow upon glancing at their means of transport. (James) ¡°Wait, you¡äre saying we¡äre going in that thing?¡± (Steven) ¡°Well, not exactly this Transport Chopper will drop you off on the Landing Pad in Fuchsia City. Alibi setting is Tourists from Unova, so even if you accidentally packed a Team Rocket Jacket you can just say you¡äre a fan of the Unova Rockets.¡± After all, is said and done the Transport Chopper opens up in the bag so Mira can be ramped in. Alakazam follows behind her in a short delay while Jessie, James and Meowth climb in from the front door. (Pilot) ¡°This is your Pilot speaking, everyone strap in and enjoy the flight. We should arrive at the target location in around two hours.¡± After the announcement, they all strap themselves in while Mira activates the Breaks and Steven straps the Wheelchair in place. After Mira is secured in the Cargo Bay he leaves while the Pilot closes the Cargo hatch and lifts off. While James takes the opportunity for a nap on the chopper Jessie looks at their Bankcard she notices that there is a Zero more than usual in the last transaction and quickly takes the Pad for Rocket HQ Contact. She presses the emergency contact button and is connected to Steve. (Steve) ¡°Team 142 what¡äs the emergency? Did something happen with Miss Jharmind already?¡± (Jessie) ¡°No, but our Bank account has a few more Zeroes than it¡äs supposed to on Payday.¡± Steven simply chuckles at Jessies Reaction. (Steven) ¡°Negative, that¡äs not an Error. The Boss thought it would be appropriate since you¡äre currently guarding a VIP and she can be pretty taxing physically and mentally. Therefore the boss thought of giving a pay raise and sent the pay raise at once. From now on your pay is increased by 10 times until your guard job comes to an end. Enjoy your new funds, oh and make sure she doesn¡ät do anything stupid.¡± Saying that he hangs up the call and Jessie immediately shakes James awake. (James) ¡°What is it Jessie, I haven¡ät slept since yesterday morning so I could steer the Balloon to HQ, so if it¡äs not something important I¡äm going back to sleep.¡± She looks at him with glee and happiness that basically radiates from her. (Jessie) ¡°The boss sent us 6 Million Pok¨¦ En on our bank account for this guard job and will increase our pay by 2.5 times until it¡äs over.¡± Now James also looks with a mix of astonishment and glee. (James) ¡°Finally we can eat something else than canned food when we¡äre outside the city... wait, I just noticed another thing. We don¡ät have to pay the R&D Team for Mechas anymore to capture Pikachu so we can actually spend this on ourselves instead.¡± Meowth starts to droll from the thoughts of drowning in Magikarp Sushi and other delicacies, while Jessie thinks of the things she always wanted to have on her journey and helping out the Orphanage that raised her instead of her Mother. James then goes back to sleep happily and has a nice Dream about their new possibilities. Meanwhile, Mira sits in the Cargo Bay with Alakazam and is currently in a staring contest with it until Alakazam gets bored and starts using Meditate. Mira seeing this also starts taking a nap since she can¡ät look outside anyway because the cargo bay doesn¡ät have any windows. After an uneventful 2 hour flight of Alakazam meditating, Mira and James sleeping while the rest of Team 142 fantasizes about their new ways to spend money the Pilot suddenly opens the communications channel. (Pilot) ¡°Attention Passengers we¡äve just arrived at a landing Pad of Fuchsia City. Prepare yourself, we¡äre landing now.¡± The Transport chopper arrives on the landing Pad and is greeted by the Airport crew upon which the Pilot opens the Cargo Bay. (Pilot) ¡°Everyone it¡äs time to leave so grab your shit and unlock the Miss¡äs Wheelchair from back there. If you forget anything I won¡ät be flying back and bringing it to you so better check that you didn¡ät miss anything.¡± Hearing the announcement Jessie and James grab their Bag while Meowth walks towards the Cargo Bay to unfasten Mira''s wheelchair. (Meowth) ¡°So, did you like your flight here?¡± Mira looks him in the eyes with a bored expression. (Mira) ¡°I¡äve already flown before so that isn¡ät anything new and who could not enjoy the great monotone colours of this Cargo area that has no windows at all to look outwards from. So all in all, yes I had one hell of a time ha¡­ ha¡­ ha.¡± While Mira was being sarcastic at Meowth he already unlocked the Wheelchair. (Meowth) ¡°Jeez no need to get all sarcastic on me, I was trying to be nice and make a bit of Smalltalk while I unstrap your Wheelchair since that Alakazam was always a quiet one ever since it got rescued. Speaking of which, hey, stop meditating we¡äve arrived.¡± After being cat punched by Meowth Alakazam is taken out of its meditative state and lifts Mira with Psychokinesis so she doesn¡ät have to roll down the ramp and risk hurting her by having her fall out of the chair. Outside of the Chopper Jessie and James are already waiting for Mira, Meowth and Alakazam. (Jessie) ¡°Well, Miss Jharmind,¡± Jessie was about to continue until she got interrupted by Mira (Mira) ¡°Just call me Mira. We¡äre going to be travelling together from now on so no more formalities. Just be yourself and stop with the formalities, I¡äm not gonna bite or tell Giovanni to cut your pay.¡± (Jessie) ¡°Fine. Mira, we¡äre currently in Fuchsia City which is by far the most traditional place in Kanto. Most people who want to honour traditions for catching Pok¨¦mon arrive here for the Safari Zone, or they want to enjoy the traditional Cuisine Kanto provides. From here we have a few choices of where to travel afterwards, but let¡äs discuss this over Lunch.¡± While Jessie talks they leave through the Airport after having their Luggage checked for banned items. Hearing the word Lunch Miras Stomach begins to grumble, however before she can say anything one of the Employees of the Airport looks startled at the Jacket in James Bag. (Employee) ¡°Uhm, Sir this Symbol is banned in Kanto it belongs to a known Criminal Organization.¡± James looks at him shocked. (James) ¡°WHAT?! Oh sorry, I seem to have accidentally packed my Fan Jacket of the ¡®Unova Rockets¡¯.¡± (Employee) ¡°Yes that may be the case, but you still can¡ät go past here with this. How did you get a flight to Kanto with this anyways? ¡± James sighs as if he was annoyed by the question. (James) ¡°Well in Unova we didn¡ät really have to do bag checks since we came here in a private Chopper our boss provided. Oh in case you were wondering, I and my Partner here are Bodyguards for our companies VIP Scientist in the Wheelchair back there.¡± Mira simply waves after being mentioned. (James) ¡°She¡äs decided to take a Vacation and chose Kanto as her destination. We even had to leave every Pok¨¦mon that isn¡ät native to Kanto at home. So what can we do about the Jacket? Do I have to leave this here, or what?¡± The Employee starts talking into his Phone and closes it after about two minutes. (Employee) ¡°The Chief of Staff said we will keep it here in a safe until you return back home so you won¡ät get into trouble because you accidentally wore it. Don¡ät worry, the Jacket will not come to any harm during our Safekeeping, but if it does you¡äre entitled to financial compensation.¡± James grumbles and takes the Jacket out of his Bag and hands it to the Airport Employee. (James) ¡°Fine¡­ but if there is as much as a scratch on it I will be furious. That¡äs top-level Brand Material from a quality Tailor and cost 25 thousand Pok¨¦ En.¡± The employee takes it and passes it on to his co-worker. (Employee) ¡°No worries Sir. We will make sure it won¡ät be harmed, with that we¡äre done with the Bag checks. Enjoy your stay in Fuchsia City.¡± After being welcomed they start moving out of the Airport with Alakazam moving the Wheelchair with Telekinesis.The story has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation. (Jessie) ¡°Okay, Mira. Since you also seem pretty hungry where should we go for lunch? We got Meat, Fish and Vegetarian Cuisine as a choice here. And then there¡äs the choice of going for a Traditional or a newer Restaurant around here.¡± Mira puts her hand under her chin and thinks for a bit. That pose would look pretty intellectual if it weren¡ät for the stomach noises that sound like a cornered Lion. (Mira) ¡°Let¡äs just go where they serve the biggest Portions, I haven¡ät eaten anything in four days.¡± (James) ¡°Then let¡äs go to Snorlax¡äs Snack Palace. Their biggest Portions are 25 Kilograms which is called Snorlax Snack size and it tastes great there as well.¡± 25 Kilos of food does indeed sound very appealing. I can¡ät wait to get a taste. After deciding where to eat Lunch they head towards the Snack Palace. (Mira) ¡°Oh by the way, what¡äs Snorlax? Is that the name of the owner or is it a chain Restaurant?¡± James tries to stifle a laugh while Jessie is snickering and Meowth is holding back his laughter in order to explain. (Meowth) ¡°It¡äs the name of a Pok¨¦mon that eats its own bodyweight which is around 800 kilograms in food and then sleeps until its stomach gets empty again. And sorry for us laughing and trying not to laugh but a person that acts like a Snorlax would never own a Restaurant because he¡äd eat all the food they have in stock. Do they not have Snorlaxes on the Mainland?¡± Mira just shakes her head in disagreement. Well, let¡äs just pull something out of my ass about why I don¡ät know them. (Mira) ¡°Nope. Must¡äve died out at least a few thousand years ago there. I lived in a pretty hot environment and the lowest temperature was around 30 degrees, so slow and lazy things die of Dehydration most of the time, doesn¡ät matter what it is.¡± After their discussion on Snorlaxes, they arrive at the Snack Palace and are greeted by the receptionist. (Receptionist) ¡°Greetings, for how many People and Pok¨¦mon do you want a table?¡± James does a small count in his head and promptly answers. (James) ¡°3 People and 6 Pok¨¦mon. 2 Poison Types, one Plant/Poison Type, one Psychic Type and 2 Normal Types.¡± The Receptionist begins to check through his Monitor. (Receptionist) ¡°Let¡äs see, there is the Munchlax Lounge with enough space, ah¡­ but it¡äs not Wheelchair accessible¡­ that one¡äs also out, that one too. Then there¡äs only the Snorlax Parlor with enough space and Wheelchair access currently available. Sorry we usually let the customer choose the ensemble, but we¡äre currently almost full.¡± (Mira) ¡°No Problem. I can¡ät complain since my disability always severely cuts down choices and I¡äve seen worse places which weren¡ät even accessible to me in the first place.¡± (Receptionist) ¡°That¡äs good then. Just wait here for a sec. Your waiter will show you your table and bring your Menus as well as food for your Pok¨¦mon, but please only let out the Poison Types once you¡äre inside the room.¡± Both Jessie and James nod in understanding when a man with 3 Menus comes over and gestures them to follow him. Once they are seated he hands them the Menus and they start ordering their food. Mira simply takes the Waiters recommendation in snack size, while Jessie gets a medium rare Tauros Steak and James takes a Krabby Omelette in Medium size and Pok¨¦mon food plus Magikarp Sushi for Meowth. Once they order they release their Pok¨¦mon, which swiftly ends in Victribell trying to eat James again until he pries it off of his face. While they are waiting for the food to arrive they start discussing their plans for the following days. (Jessie) ¡°Okay Mira, since we¡äre now waiting for our food to arrive, let¡äs discuss our plans for the following days. The first thing we should do thoughis to get you a Pok¨¦dex for the Island nations so you can know which Pok¨¦mons are native here and what defining traits they have since every Island Nation has different Native Pok¨¦mon. They may be a bit pricy but it¡äs worth it.¡± (Mira) ¡°Sounds like a good Idea. Do they sell other Tech there as well?¡± (James) ¡°Yeah, but only stuff like Pok¨¦ balls and other Gear for adventuring like a camping stove.¡± Oh well, that¡äs kind of disappointing. I hoped that there was at least something high tech. Wait, they don¡ät necessarily have to think of it as high tech. Those Pok¨¦ balls are everyday Items and it has a dimensional Storage so I can get my hopes up to find another gem like that. (Jessie) ¡°Well if we¡äre talking about shopping for anything then I would recommend the Celadon City Shopping Mall, there¡äs everything from everyday Items to high-quality equipment, but let¡äs talk about that later, it seems the food¡äs arriving.¡± Their Lunch finishes rather quietly since all of them give priority to their food. The only noticeable sound is that of eating. Once they are done and pay for the Meal they leave for the store selling a Pok¨¦dex. (Mira) ¡°Say, how long is the journey to Celadon anyways? I¡äm really interested in that Mall you mentioned Jessie.¡± Jessie walks silently while doing a bit of Mental Math. (Jessie) ¡°Well, if we could take a car we could arrive in about 3 hours if we drive around 100 kilometres per hour, but we don¡ät have a car. Other Options would include walking, that would take about 300 hours of only walking and that doesn¡ät even include luggage, sleep, exhaustion, terrain, meals and hygiene so only about maybe 3 hours a day can be spent on walking. Also, it¡äs a lot longer than the car choice since the fast way is a highway and we can¡ät really go and walk on that now can we. One more would be flying, but we left the Hot Air Balloon in the base and Fuchsia has the only Airport in Kanto, so that one¡äs out,so the first two are our only options.¡± Hmm, why is a car such a big Problem? Wait¡­ (Mira) ¡°Let me guess, no car would allow me to still sit in my Wheelchair right?¡± Jessie just nods. Well damn, there goes my hope for a quick way to get there. (Jessie) ¡°No, wait I forgot one. There¡äs a small Harbor where we can take off towards Vermillion City that¡äd take us around 9 hours plus around 21 hours of walking afterwards.¡± Damn, I really hoped they had Jeeps but I guess we should take the Boat then. (Mira) ¡°Let¡äs take the boat then. Oh, by the way, is that Blue Building the store you talked about?¡± (James) ¡°Good Observation Mira. Yes, that¡äs indeed the store we were coming here for.¡± Once they enter the store they walk towards an isle titled ¡®Local Dex¡¯ and both Jessie and James look through some of the Models and pick out 3 different types. (James) ¡°Okay Mira, we¡äve brought over the most convenient types of Pok¨¦dexes they have here. There¡äs the Watch Type Dex that is basically a Wristwatch replacement. The Classic Dex that¡äs about the size of a small Tabloid or big Mobile Phone which gives you the info in text form in as a bonus. And finally, the Holo Type Dex that gives you a holographic Image of the Pok¨¦mon in addition to the traits it has. All three come equipped with a Speaker that give you the most defining Traits of Pok¨¦mon here since we can only get a Kanto Dex from here. If you buy an Upgrade in another Region you can get what¡äs called a National Dex which saves all Pok¨¦mon in regards to the Regions you unlocked with that.¡± Mira sinks deep into thought for this choice. Let¡äs see, the Holo Type would be the best shot for Technology, but I will probably destroy it to get its secrets so that¡äs currently out. That Classic version doesn¡ät look like much, but I bet I can get it open and put it back together again before anyone notices. The Watch Type seems to be the most convenient in terms of travel since they obviously evolved Technology into a Monster Taming society and that means cars got the short end here it seems. Well except family cars and Trucks, but I¡äm not sitting in another Cargo Bay that¡äs just degrading. Wait¡­ what was I thinking of again? Oh right, the Watch! Well since a lot of the people here walk everywhere and don¡ät want to cram it out of their bag every time, so the watch type seems to be pretty popular. (Mira) ¡°I guess I¡äm going to go with the Classic Type. The Holo Type looks a bit too expensive and I don¡ät know if I could hold myself back and look at its insides. And the watch will just annoy me when I¡äm building things and if you didn¡ät notice I mostly forget stuff that I put on which could fry its circuits. Speaking of which, where is Meowth?¡± James and Jessie both don¡ät seem to care much that their talking companion simply went somewhere else without saying anything. (James) ¡°Well, he does that sometimes. He often visits other Meowths in Back Alleys and teaches them how to survive better. You see before he learned to talk he was also from the Back Alleys and knows what they go through. He probably saw a group of ¡äem run in an Alleyway.¡± Wow. Never considered something like him to be from a Back Alley. He seemed pretty well Mannered and knowledgeable. But I guess everyone can change. Except maybe Jacko, that Scum sucking cuntbag. Guys like him never change. (Mira) ¡°Well enough sidetracking. Let¡äs get the Classic Dex and get some Pok¨¦ balls as well, you never know and then let¡äs get our boat ride to Vermillion City.¡± Buying the Classic Pok¨¦dex and 10 Pok¨¦ balls each they leave the store after paying 106.000 Pok¨¦ En and then leave towards the Harbor. Well, I guess Databases are more expensive than such things since no one would like to part with Info on new Pok¨¦mon I guess. Well, that and the fact that it¡äs basically a small computer with an upgrade function for new entries. It even Tracks what you¡äve caught in case you want to collect all of them. Once they are about halfway to the Harbor Meowth joins them again and jumps onto Miras Lap. (Meowth) ¡°Sorry for this but I¡äm pretty tired after all that and I don¡ät want to walk anymore.¡± While Meowth takes the Mira Express they walk through the City when suddenly someone bumps into James. (???) ¡°Oi that hurt man, I think something¡äs broken.¡± Oh great, a Thug with bad acting talent. Even I can see that he¡äs just faking it. (Mira) ¡°Oh piss off, even a Blind person can see you¡äre spewing bullshit and faking it.¡± The Thug clearly gets aggravated by Miras Remark and starts pointing at her. (Thug) ¡°Shut up you shitty cripple. Otherwise, your legs won¡ät be the only thing that doesn¡ät work.¡± Mira clearly pissed at the Thugs attitude begins to rile him up. (Mira) ¡°Oh no, please don¡ät hurt my acting talent by having me contract your stupidity.¡± (Thug) ¡°THAT¡äS IT! I CHALLENGE YOU TO A POK¨¦MON DUEL! 3 POKEMON VS 3 POKEMON.¡± Mira holds her hand before her mouth as if she¡äs troubled. (Mira) ¡°That¡äs going to be hard. I only have 1 Pok¨¦mon right now.¡± (Thug) ¡°Then your friends there take one Pok¨¦mon each as well.¡± Suddenly a bike with Blue and Red Lights arrive. (Officer Jenny) ¡°I heard some loud screaming when I was in the area, what¡äs currently going on?¡± Oh, this will indeed get very fun. (Mira) ¡°Greetings. Well, this dipshit over there thought it would be easy to scam my Bodyguard out of some money after crashing into him and pretending to be injured, but did such a terrible job at acting that I called him out on it. He didn¡ät take kindly to that and tried to threaten me with violence which met my unhinged sarcasm. Now he¡äs challenged us to a 3 Pok¨¦mon Duel.¡± The Thug clearly noticed the obvious provocation. He¡äs even clenching his fist from anger to hold back and not hit me in front of Authority. (Officer Jenny) ¡°Did you agree to the Duel?¡± (Mira) ¡°Well, not yet since I only have one Pok¨¦mon. He then said it¡äs fine if my Bodyguards also use one Pok¨¦mon each. So I was thinking about agreeing to put his face and acting talent in the dirt where it belongs.¡± Officer Jenny then talks into a Walkie-talkie and then nods after a while. (Officer Jenny) ¡°Okay, we have secured a place where you can duke it out with a few viewers and where you won¡ät destroy the streets with your battle, so if you four would please follow me.¡± The four of them follow Officer Jenny with quite a few Spectators following them towards the Battle Colosseum where Trainers can take out their aggression towards other Trainers in a Battle. An Audience also gathered quite fast, since Pok¨¦mon Battles are always enjoyable to watch, but Gyms only allow their Members and the Challengers companions to watch. At the Arena, they were asked what their Jobs and names were so the Announcer could Introduce both parties. Turned out the Thug was actually a Professional Pok¨¦mon Trainer. (Announcer) ¡°Greetings everyone, we have kind of a special battle today. It involves a 3 vs 1 Person Battle 3 Pok¨¦mon each, to win they must knock out all three Pok¨¦mon of their Opponent in a 1 on 1 No Swap Style Battle. The Trainers involved in this Battle are on the red Side Julian. Julian is a pretty good Trainer that already got himself 3 Badges and his experience in Type advantages definitely shows in the three Pok¨¦mon he prepared for this battle. On the Blue side, we have the Scientist Mira and her Bodyguards, Jessie and James. As you¡äve already heard, none of them are Professional Pok¨¦mon Trainers but don¡ät let that fool you, they have a pretty strong Team on their hand as well. Now without further ado, let the battle begin!¡± Chapter 5: Prepare for Battle Julian starts the battle by grabbing a Pok¨¦ ball from his waist and activating it. (Julian) "Let¡äs start with you buddy." The Pok¨¦ Ball opens to reveal the Pok¨¦mon inside it. (Announcer) "Oh, Julian leads off with his Sandslash. They are already known in other cities for a brutal and efficient fighting style. Even when they¡äre up against types that Sandslash should usually be weak against they usually prevail and defeat them." Once the Announcer has finished the Introduction for his adversary in this battle James steps forward and activates his Pok¨¦ Ball. (James) "Let me handle this one. I have the perfect Pok¨¦mon for the Job. Go Victreebel!" However, as soon as it comes out of the Pok¨¦ball it tries to engulf James in its pitcher again, much to James dismay. (James) "Stop it Victreebel! We¡äre not playing and we fed you half an hour ago. There¡äs a battle to win" Peeling the Victeebell of his Face he throws it into the Battle Area. (Announcer) "Seems like James has an unruly Victribell that would rather feed on its Trainer than battle against Julian¡äs Sandslash. Anyways, with that, the first Pok¨¦mon have been selected, so let the Battle commence!" Both Pok¨¦mon looks tense and about to Attack each other, the only thing needed for that to happen is but a simple command from their Trainers which Julian Initiates. (Julian) "Sandslash, start with a fast Slash attack!" Once it hears its command Sandslash breaks out in a mad dash towards Victreebel which is getting ready to counter (James) "Victreebel, dodge it and douse it with Sleep Powder and then follow up with Razor Leaf!" Victreebel dodges the Slash attack by jumping into the Air and unleashing a bunch of Powder into the Air which makes Sandslash fall asleep. Once the Sandslash closes its eyes from the Powders effect, Victreebel begins bombarding it with Razor Leaf. While Mira looks at the fight both horrified and excited Jessie taps her on the shoulder. This makes Mira turn towards her with a ''What is it'' Face. (Jessie) "Since James is currently battling that Sandslash I better show you how to use that Pok¨¦dex." She says as she takes the Dex from Miras Bag. "This thing starts automatically as soon as you open it and then you just point the front at the Pok¨¦mon you want to know more about and that¡äs about it. Oh yeah, the voice will only tell you a bit of trivia about them, the important information is on the screen when you use it." Taking back the Pok¨¦dex Mira opens it up and Points it at the Sandslash. (Pok¨¦dex) "Sandslash, the Mouse Pok¨¦mon. It is skilled at slashing enemies with its claws. If broken, they start to grow back in a day." Mira listens to the description that¡äs given by the Pok¨¦dex with low interest and instead reads the info on the Dex itself. Sandslash Pok¨¦dex Entry
Sandslash - Mouse Pok¨¦mon
Ground Type
Evolves From
Height 3''03" 1.0m
Weight 65lbs 29.5kg
Weakness Water Type Plant Type Ice Type
Resistances Poison Type Rock Type
Immune Electric Type
After a quick read through, Mira once again focusses on James battle against Julians Sandslash which begins with Julian Screaming at Sandslash to finally wake up. After quite a lot of Bombardment by Victreebels Razor Leafs Sandslash wakes up but appears to be quite worn out already. Julian then commands it to use Sandtomb which catches Vitreebel right in its centre. James at a loss of what to do in this case commands Vitreebel to just fire Razor Leafs at every possible Direction which, sadly for them, only hits the Walls and the Ground. Julian already expecting James to just Fire randomly everywhere commands Sandslash to go and Dash into the Sandtomb and finish it with a few Slash attack. Once the Sandtomb settles down there lies a knocked out Victreebel with a tired Sandslash standing on top of it. (Announcer) "Wow, I didn¡ät expect to see that. That was a brilliant move by Julian and his Sandslash to use his own Sandtomb as Camouflage to get closer to the Enemy and getting rid of it in its confusion. And with that Julian takes out the first Pok¨¦mon in this Duel. Now it¡äs about time for the group to send out their next Pok¨¦mon." James steps down from the Battle Area after sending Victreebel back into its Pok¨¦ball and puts a hand on Jessie''s shoulder under the Audiences applause. (James) "Do your best, he¡äs better than the twerp and his Friends. Especially in the Tactics department." Jessie simply walks forward making James'' hand fall down from her shoulder. (Jessie) "No worries James. I can knock that Sandslash out really fast since it¡äs basically on its last legs. I just hope Mira knows how to battle since me K.O.ing all 3 of his Pok¨¦mon will probably be impossible." Now that Jessie is on the Trainer Zone she grabs a Pok¨¦ball from her Belt she unleashes her Arbok onto the Battlefield. Both Trainers command their Pok¨¦mon to attack, Arbok tries to enclose Sandslash in a Bind attack and Sandslash tries to knock out Arbok with a Slash attack. Once Arbok is in Melee range Sandslash tries to land its Slash attack but gets caught by the Bind instead. (Jessie) "Good Job Arbok. Now finish it with a bite attack!" Arbok targets Sandslash¡äs belly with the Bite attack which makes it pass out making the Spectators erupt in a cheer for her while Julian calls back his Sandslash. (Announcer) "That was a beautiful finisher from Jessie and her Arbok there. targeting the Sandslash¡äs belly instead of just Biting and hoping for the best since that could have severely hurt Arbok. Now we¡äre eagerly awaiting which Pok¨¦mon Julian will present next in this duel. Julian takes out another one of his Pok¨¦balls which opens to reveal the Pok¨¦mon inside of it. (Julian) "Okay, Sandslash going down was to be expected. Let¡äs have you do better than him Jynx." The revealed Jynx raises a sonorous battle cry. Mira once again opens her Pok¨¦dex and holds it in Jynx¡äs direction. (Pok¨¦dex) "Jynx, the Humanoid Pok¨¦mon. It talks in a strange, incomprehensible language. It is known for its weird wiggling that causes people to dance.This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it Jynx Pok¨¦dex Entry
Jynx - Humanoid Pok¨¦mon
Ice, Psychic Type
Evolves From
Height 4''07" 1.4m
Weight 89.5lbs 40.6kg
Weakness Fire Type Bug Type Rock Type Ghost Type Dark Type Steel Type
Resistance Ice Type Psychic Type
Immune None
While Mira reads up on Information regarding Jynx the fight already started with Jynx using Powder Snow on the whole Battle Area. (Announcer) "Oh wow, that was a smart Idea from Julian to turn the whole Stage into something that Favors Ice Types and is pretty detrimental towards Pok¨¦mon like Arbok and other Cold blooded Pok¨¦mon." Julian throws a smug Smile at Jessie, making her click her Tongue in annoyance. (Jessie) "Fine. If that¡äs how you want to play... Arbok use Dig." Once Jessie''s command is heard by Arbok it starts to dig down and disappears from the Arena. (Announcer) "And now we have an equally awesome Strategy from Jessie to avoid Arbok from cooling down any more than this by disappearing into the floor. Let¡äs just hope for Julian that he knows how to deal with Suprise Attacks." Now Jessie is throwing back a smug Smile towards Julian making him clench his fist in anger of being Mimicked. (Julian) "Jynx, watch out and hit the place where it tries to come out with an Ice Punch." Jynx starts to focus and looks around her where Arbok could come from when she suddenly starts feeling the ground underneath her coming up. Reacting to the bulging ground she jumps back a step and Punches the bulging ground, but she loses balance since there is no Arbok in the bulge making her drop down into the hole with half of her sticking out of the floor. Jessie is now giving off a sinister Grin that could even scare Dark-type Pok¨¦mon. (Jessie) "Good Job Arbok now hit it with a Double Edge!" Once Jessie''s command is heard Jynx is catapulted out of the hole it was stuck in with Arbok looking out of the hole with its head. The Jynx lands flat on its face but still gets back up. (Announcer) "Oh boy, it seems like the before laid Powder Snow was enough to dampen the fall a bit for Jynx. But that one Hit seems to have taken its toll on her nonetheless." (Julian) "Jynx, go in for a Double Slap but this time dodge Arboks Attacks." Jynx once again rushes into battle in a dance-like motion and Jessie is already starting to yell at Arbok. (Jessie) "Go for another Dig attack." However, before Arbok can start tunnelling Jynx is already slapping it around furiously, perhaps in revenge for that unwanted flying lesson. (Announcer) "Oh, it seems like Arbok is getting affected by the cooled Area and moving slower than usual. Let¡äs see if they can find a way out of this predicament." Jessie is grinding her Teeth out of frustration but then she has an Idea. (Jessie) "Arbok, use Double Edge even if you get hit by Jynx you must connect it." But Julian isn¡ät sleeping around and is instead commanding Jynx. (Julian) "Good job Jynx, now that it¡äs weakened finish it off with an Ice Punch!" Both Pok¨¦mon, perceiving their Owners Orders charge at one another after Arbok placed some distance between it and Jynx by shooting it out of the hole it dug. Arboks hit connects first and slams straight into Jynx¡äs chest, but Jynx is still able to get her Ice Punch to hit Arbok on its side. This ends with Jynx fainting first with Arbok just a second after it, which makes the Audience clap and cheer in excitement for this battle. (Announcer) "And there we have it, the surprise of the day. Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a double K.O. Now it¡äs all down to the last Pok¨¦mon for both contestants with a good counter from Jynx to take down Arbok with it." Jessie and Julian both retrieve their knocked out Pok¨¦mon from the battlefield via Pok¨¦ Ball and Jessie begins her walk back towards James and Mira. (Jessie) "Well, that went better than expected. At least that Jynx didn¡ät have any Psychic Moves otherwise Mira would¡äve needed to beat two Pok¨¦mon." Mira''s eyes are swimming from one side to the other nervously as if she wants to say something but is embarrassed about it. (James) "Is something the matter Mira?" Mira scratches her head and then slowly nods. (Mira) "Well, I never had a Pok¨¦mon Battle so this will be my first time and I also don¡ät know what Abilities Alakazam has." Meowth quickly talks to Alakazam in the natural Language of Pok¨¦mon and is able to answer Mira almost immediately by whispering into her ear. (Meowth) "Alakazam knows how to use Reflect, Confusion, Telekinesis, and Psybeam. But we have no time to explain what they do, our opponent is waiting." Mira rolls her Wheelchair to the Trainer Area and points at the stage, upon which Alakazam enters the designated Battle Area. Meanwhile, Julian takes a third Pok¨¦ Ball from his belt and activates it revealing a Haunter. (Announcer) "And now we have the Final round of this Duel. Mira and her Alakazam versus Julian and his Haunter. Let us see how this last round will unfold." Once the battle starts Haunter simply disappears into the floor. (Mira) "Oh COME ON! How¡äs that fair?" Julian simply laughs. (Julian) "What? It¡äs just the natural advantage of Ghost-types. Anyways enough talking, Haunter use Shadow Punch!" Haunter comes out of the ground right behind Alakazam and tries to connect with a Shadow Punch but Alakazam notices the Haunters Shadow Punch and tries to dodge it. However, tries sadly for it doesn¡ät mean succeeds and he takes a Shadow Punch to the Arm making Alakazam form a grimace in Pain. (Mira) "Alakazam retaliate with Psybeam." However, before Alakazam can shoot the beam of Psychic energy Haunter tries to disappear into the floor once again but gets hit in the back a second before it can enter the ground completely. (Announcer) "Oh man, I¡äm out of words here. Julian battles like someone with at least eight badges, I simply don¡ät believe he only got 3 badges under his belt, otherwise, my Job would be much more exciting." The pattern of Haunter going into the floor to land a surprise attack with Shadow Punch repeats a few times but both party''s dodge since they knew what to expect when Mira has an Idea to get them out of this stalemate. (Mira) "Alakazam when he comes out next time hold him up with Telekinesis." Sadly for Julian before he can react Haunter comes out of the ground to once again try to connect a hit into Alakazam and is lifted high into the Air instead. (Mira) "Good Job, now that he has no way to dodge hit him with a Psybeam!" While Alakazam gathers Psychic energy to shoot at his opponent Julian doesn¡ät just stand there and commands Haunter as well. (Julian) "Haunter this is what we¡äve been waiting for. Use Shadow Ball!" Haunter starts gathering ghostly energy around him and starts forming it into a ball in front of his mouth. Once the Energy they gathered has formed into their intended attack Alakazam is the first to unleash it, however, Haunter shoots it at the Psybeam when it¡äs already travelled about 75% of the way towards Haunter causing the Energies to clash with one another. Both Pok¨¦mon battle for supremacy with their attack and push more and more power into their attack, however, Alakazam is getting forced back slowly. Once the clashing attacks reach a 50/50 in terms of distance Mira starts to notice that Alakazam won¡ät be able to dodge if he shuts off the Psybeam and runs. (Mira) "Alakazam, try to overcharge that Shadow ball and make it explode." Alakazam, hearing the order starts to put disruptive Psychic Energies into his Psybeam, however, the Shadowball only slowly gets more and more unstable until it finally starts exploding when the tables have turned completely and the clashing attacks are now 75% of the way towards Alakazam instead, making the Explosion engulf him and a part of the floor making dust and Powder Snow fly everywhere. (Announcer) "Seems like Mira¡äs Plan ended up backfiring hard on her. That must have definitely hurt and blinded Alakazam. Haunter is also gone again, let¡äs see how this is going to end." Once the dust has settled Alakazam is still standing, but only barely. Meanwhile, Haunter is nowhere to be found. Both Mira and Alakazam are once again presuming that it¡äs going to use the same Tactic as before. That thought, however, is instantly betrayed. (Julian) "Haunter, use Shadow Ball and end this!" Suddenly a Shadow Ball appears from the hole Arbok dug to beat Jynx with a surprise attack and both Alakazam and Mira react too late since they expected another attack from the floor. Due to the surprise Factor, the Shadow Ball hits its mark spot on and Alakazam goes down. (Announcer) "And there goes the battle. The Winner is Julian with Haunter bringing him the final victory and what a brilliant victory it was. Using the Tunnel the enemy Arbok dug in the Duel against Jynx to his own advantage for a surprise attack was just a genius move on his part. And with that, we¡äre done here. Would the contestants be so kind as to leave the Duel Area so we can repair it for the next battle that is taking place here in a bit." With a final applause from the Audience, the four of them leave the Area in defeat and towards the Pok¨¦center to heal their Pok¨¦mon back up. Though once they leave the Arena they get ambushed by Julian coming to presumably taunt them. (Julian) "Hey, sorry for the provocation, but I needed to fight someone and win to get myself some funds and the missy seemed like a good match to make a bit of cash." Mira''s face scrunches up as if she chewed a bug. (Mira) "And what makes you say that? If I remember correctly you tried to scam my Bodyguard with some grade school level Acting." Julian laughs instead of getting angry this time which perplexes the four. (Julian) "Why would I need to scam an insurance company if I could just obtain the money legally by beating you in a battle?" James and Jessie now look at him questionably. (James) "Wait, but professional Trainers don¡ät get money for a win in battle, how come you are different?" Julian opens his Jacket and takes out a hexagonal Badge with an Ace of Clubs on it. (Julian) "I¡äm part of a group called the Ace Trainers and yes our Leader sadly likes puns a lot. Anyways our Group pays for each victory by betting on their members and bodyguards are usually at the strength as a Professional Trainer with 6 Badges, so my current 3 Badges pumped up the chances to a 3 to 1 in your favour. And because of that, I came over to apologize and thank you at the same time." Mira and Jessie look baffled that he acted bad intentionally to bait Mira into challenging him, while Meowth acts like a regular Meowth and starts napping on Mira¡äs Lap. (James) "The way you formulate is though seems more like taunting us instead of thanking us. So we¡äd appreciate if you just went your way and we go ours and never speak with each other again." Julian looks at him with a shit eating grin. (Julian) "Or what? You¡äre going to whine me to death?" Suddenly Julian starts shaking as if someone shoved a Snowball down his Jacket. (Mira) "No, but I¡äm going to build a weapon that will disintegrate you, you insufferable piece of shit. And the only reason you¡äre currently still alive is that I currently don¡ät have the pieces to build a weapon of deadly proportions. So I¡äd advise you to piss off before I build these missing Pieces from your Pok¨¦ Balls and sending your Pok¨¦mon into the void of their Pocket Dimensions." Julian starts to get cocky again and once again displays his Smile at her empty threat until Mira pulls out a Pok¨¦ Ball and crushes it into tiny pieces making Julian run away faster than an Abra in the wild. (Jessie) "Wow Mira, you¡äve got kind of a bad temper at the moment." Mira now swipes away the hull of the Pok¨¦ Ball she destroyed and puts the Circuit Boards back into her Bag with Jessie and James staring at her like a being straight out of a horror movie. (Mira) "Well I never liked to be taunted and I usually have a pretty explosive Temperament. Anyways what¡äre you two staring at me for? Let¡äs get our Pok¨¦mon fixed up already and then it¡äs off towards the Docks. I want to see what the Store you talked about has in stock." Chapter 6: Prepare for a boat Trip We¡äve finally gotten rid of that annoying Prick Julian and while my anger is still not gone, at least threatening to kill him with his own Pok¨¦ Balls was nice, even if I had to break a Pok¨¦ Ball in the process. Well, I might be able to fiddle around with those Pok¨¦ Ball pieces and make a Storage unit for Inorganic Material or even better, store things in general. While I was once again lost in thought we arrived at the Pok¨¦mon Center and handed the Nurse our three unconscious Pok¨¦mon. Now that I think about it, why didn¡ät any of these Pok¨¦mons get injured in that fight? Guess I¡äll ask those three later. Seems like it will be taking some time before the Nurse heals back our Pok¨¦mon so we have to pass the time somewhere. At least they have a waiting room where we¡äre currently headed to. Arriving at the waiting room, it doesn¡ät look really special, just seats and a few tables with brochures on them, like a normal waiting room. However, there are these contraptions mounted on the right wall, which looks like a Tablet embedded in an old Phonebooth with a weird cylinder attached to its side. With my researcher Spirit burning for answers, I tap Jessie on her Arm to grab her attention. (Mira) "Hey Jessie I couldn¡ät help but wonder, but what are those things mounted on the wall? Are they phones or something, or is my guess totally off?" She looks at the Wall-mounted devices and then at me with a surprised look. Seems like those things are pretty common. (Jessie) "Yeah, they¡äre phones. Did they not have those types where you¡äre from?" Now it¡äs my turn to look surprised. She actually thinks I meant the Phone part I should probably correct her on that. (Mira) "I know what a phone is and how it works. What interests me is the Cylinder attached to it on the side." Jessie balls her hand into a fist and hits her other flat palm with it whilst saying ''oh''. (Jessie) "Well, the Device that¡äs built into this phone is there to transfer Pok¨¦balls over to the person you talk to. Most people only carry around six Pok¨¦balls since that¡äs the maximum allowed for official battles so they usually swap them out here to prepare for Gym leaders or important battles... why are you looking at that thing like you just met the love of your life?" YES! I thought it¡äd be much harder to get my hands on a teleporter I even thought that I¡äd have to build one myself again, but without knowing the Materials used to conduct electricity here. That would¡äve been a Nightmare and probably set me back quite a few years if not killed all kinds of progress entirely. If it¡äs only simple applications like a heating blanket then that¡äd be no problem, but I¡äd like some more info on things since the teleporter will literally send my own body on a trip. I¡äd prefer not losing something due to ignoring that fact. (Mira) "I don¡ät care how, but I need one of those. I want to repurpose it for other uses. The means you use to get it don¡ät matter to me so tell me: how do I get my hands on one of those?" Jessie rips her arm out of my grasp. whoops seems I grabbed onto her while I was focussed on acquiring that Teleportation device and didn¡ät quite regulate my strength. But it seems people here are tougher than on Earia so at least I don¡ät have to hold back and can get a bit rougher with annoying people. (Jessie) "No need to get violent, also calm down people are staring. If you want one so badly we have some of those back at the company, so wait until we get back and you can start fiddling around with it." Seems like my researcher Spirit took over my common sense there for a sec. I should probably apologize for the commotion. Bowing down slightly and uttering a single sorry is enough to turn the attention of the people in the waiting room back to what they were previously doing, most having already seen weird people in a Pok¨¦mon Center before and not giving it any more thought. (Mira) "Ah well, I calmed down now. By the way, while we¡äre waiting can you tell me why the Pok¨¦mon only fainted in that battle? I mean most of those attacks would be considered Lethal in terms of damage if they hit." (James) "Well, that¡äs pretty hard to answer since there are three definitions and interpretations on this topic. The religious people think the Pok¨¦mon God Arceus is responsible for this protection while the scientists argue that they have a kind of Field around them that nullifies Pok¨¦mon attacks and instead causes them to faint when it¡äs at critical levels. And last but not least the ones that have their own thoughts and conspiracies on the matter that are too many to list and if I did we¡äd probably be here for a week." Huh, that was shorter than I thought, but at least it took enough time for that Egg on legs to come here with our Pok¨¦balls. While releasing Alakazam from its ball we leave the Pok¨¦mon Center towards the small Harbour. The walk there is pretty uneventful except for me looking at the scenery and Jessy taking small glances at James but reeling away as soon as he looks over to her and trying to make it look as if she¡äs searching for a shortcut or somebody suspicious. Enjoying this cat and mouse with their gazes I didn¡ät notice us already arriving at the harbour until James starts talking to a Sailor, or at least I¡äm assuming he¡äs one in those Marine Blue and White Clothes.This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. (Sailor) "Well there¡äs a ferry goin'' there, but it¡äs gonna cost ya quite a bit since ya can¡ät take any ferry with the missy over there. Ya gotta get on one with a decent width which is more expensive than our regular boats. I¡äd recommend the Sun Diver even if the Captain is kind of an Oddball usin'' mostly Fire Pok¨¦mon since he likes it warm ''round his Boat n'' keepin'' most things away from it by usin'' that. Oh, by the way, ya three should hurry up since he¡äs probably gonna set sail in about half an hour." Thanking the Sailor for telling us where he¡äs docked as well as where the dock actually is, we leave towards the Sun Diver to have the Captain take us with him to Celadon City. (???) "Hey, you three, looking for a particular ship?" Jessie turns around towards the voice coming from behind her. (Jessie) "Well, yes we¡äre looking for the Sun Diver, a Sailor told us it¡äd be around this part of the Docks." (???) "Well then you¡äre in Luck, I¡äm Fernes Smo, Captain of the Sun Diver. Let me guess you want a ride? If so I¡äm gonna go with my regular fee of 35000 Pok¨¦ En per Person and Human sized Pok¨¦mon that''s outside of their ball during the Journey." Huh, this Fernes dude looks really fancy for a Captain. From the Flames on his Black shirt to the Red Hair with Orange streaks and Red Shorts I¡äm getting warm just from looking at him. Also, the price seems really cheap in comparison to Boat trips back in my World, but that might just be inflation taking its course. (Jessie) "Yes that¡äs correct, we¡äd like to book it with three people and one Human sized Pok¨¦mon to help her get around." Confirming Captain Smos question Jessie opens up her purse and hands the Captain the 140.000 Pok¨¦ En to which he simply nods and walks towards the Docks we were walking towards just now and gesturing us to follow him. (Fernes) "Man it¡äs been a while since I had so many passengers at once in the offseason, usually I only get traffic during the Holiday Seasons with Cinnabar Island as the destination and even then they usually board the ship in Vermillion City. By the way, which stop do you want to get off, so I know that I won¡ät have to wait for you three to come back to set sail again." (James) "Oh, we¡äre getting off in Vermillion since she can¡ät really ride on a car with us so we have to go by boat." The Captain looks at me with a pitying expression. (Fernes) "Oh, let me guess the little girl is a psychic? Cause I¡äve never seen any injury like that on a normal person." Hmm, it seems like the fact that people who use mana externally are frailer than those who don¡ät is also present in this world, but they have less understanding of it since they went into a direction where they tame the monsters instead of training themselves... wait, did he just call me little girl? (Mira) "Little girl? Boy you don¡ät look any older than twenty-three, I¡äm probably old enough to be your mother you little shit I¡äll be forty-three this year so I¡äd appreciate if you didn¡ät treat me like an eight-year-old, otherwise, I¡äd have to fry your ass with a bit of electricity." Getting slightly pissed off at being looked at like a small child I release a bit of Electrical type Mana. Oh... why did the three of them freeze all of a sudden? Don¡ät tell me I did a mistake with the power output and showed more power than any of those ''psychics'' possess. (Jessie&James) "You¡äre older than the two of us combined?!" (Fernes) "You¡äre older than forty?! You don¡ät look a year older than ten!" Releasing a bit more voltage towards Fernes released a bit of my frustration at his comment. I mean I know that you can only see the age of a Lamia by looking at the length of their tail, but getting treated like a child still pisses me off. Oops, seems like I hit him with more than intended. Now he looks ridiculous with all those hairs just standing up it reminds me of a campfire. Also, Jessie now looks at me with a lot of pity for some reason, but why? Wait... she¡äs looking at my chest. She probably thinks I¡äm part of the no chest faction, but honestly, I couldn¡ät care less since only mammals need that useless baggage and I¡äm a reptile so why should I care. Seeing me not reacting to her pitying look Jessie seems relieved that I wasn¡ät offended by that. Fernes, however, seems to not have taken my shock lightly and I should probably apologize for giggling like a small child who just pulled a whoopie cushion Prank. (Mira) "*Pff* Sorry about that Captain Smo, sometimes when I *kikiki* get agitated I start releasing electricity and so it some... I can¡ät... HAHAHAHAHAHAHA your hair looks like a campfire I just can¡ät keep a straight face right now I¡äm sorryhihihihi." Hearing my laughter some of the Sailors look over to us and immediately start laughing as well causing Captain Smos head to turn red in embarrassment or rage, I don¡ät quite know which one it is but I couldn¡ät care less since he now looks like a fire on legs. (Fernes) "Very funny... I guess we¡äre even now, I called you a kid and you made my hair stand up and made me the laughing stock of this harbour for at least a few months until some poor dude gets pinched by a Krabby while taking a piss again. Well, the more time we spend here, the more I¡äm a laughing stock to those people so get a move on you three or I¡äm leaving your asses behind." He seems to take this really easy. Those Sailors must be really starved for entertainment when an electrical hairdo makes somebody joke material for a few months. Well not that it matters since we¡äre gonna leave this harbour behind pretty soon anyway. After this small argument, we arrive at the Sun Diver without any more time wasted by stupid stuff and I have to say the Boat looks as flamboyant as its owner with Fire like patterns engraved onto the hull of the ship making it seem as if it is riding on an ocean of fire even though it¡äs sitting in the water. At least I won¡ät feel cold during this boat trip. (Fernes) "Well then, get on and let¡äs go. I got a schedule to keep." Jessie, James and Alakazam walk over the landing stage while Alakazam transports me with Telekinesis and lets me down once we¡äre all on deck. On the boat, I can see quite a few Pok¨¦mon roaming around and consult the Pok¨¦dex for each of them. Seems like his crew is a Fire-type Pok¨¦mon named Magmar, a strange looking pink Magmar and a so-called Charmelion. The Pok¨¦dex just shows a strange Star in addition to the normal info when I look at the Pink Magmar though. (Mira) "Hey James, that Pink Magmar shows up with a white star in the Pok¨¦dex. Does this mean anything special?" (James) "Well yeah, it means it¡äs a rare variant, which trainers have begun to call ''shinies'' since they usually look more vibrant in comparison to their normal brethren and they are extremely rare. Only about one in every 8200 wild Pok¨¦mon is a Shiny Pok¨¦mon so we¡äre currently seeing one of the rarest kinds of none Legendary Pok¨¦mon." While James explains Captain Smo walks up to us behind James. (Fernes) "Well yeah, my little Maggie was a present from my parents the day I got independent even though I told them I¡äd become a captain for a Boat. But hey, at least I get lots of customers from Alola since they prefer it warmer than the usual climate we have in Kanto and boat trips are usually colder." Well somebody found a niche market and a way to use it. (Fernes) "Have you got everything you guys need? Because we¡äre gonna take off now so I hope you didn¡ät forget anything, otherwise, you have to pay the price when you return with my ferry which will be docking in Vermilion City once a week." After confirming that nobody from our group forgot anything Captain Fernes pulls up the landing stage before walking to the Captains wheel and getting the Ship set in motion. Chapter 7: Prepare for a relaxing Trip Boat rides are pretty relaxing. At least if you don¡ät have bad weather, which we thankfully don¡ät have. There are just a few clouds otherwise it¡äs still sunny and judging from the suns position it¡äs about midday. Meowth is staring at the sea and salivating at the possible marine animals in the sea I presume. James pulled out a Fishing Rod from who knows where and it seems to be a retractable version otherwise, I have no Idea where he would hide a two-metre-long rod. Jessie went to the main deck with a chair and a book, I¡äm guessing she wants to pass the time by reading it. I think I¡äm going to get myself a Fire Type at some time in the future. That¡äd help with being cold-blooded and not in Earia where most places are infernal, to say the least. I, on the other hand, got myself a Pok¨¦ball to research, meaning I broke the casing as carefully as I can to not break the inner circuitry as much as possible. To avoid the same thing that happened when I made the Wheelchair and have it snap into tiny pieces. After destroying four of them, I finally have enough fragments in a good enough condition to make a caseless version of that ball since I had to break it open at different points. Well, a few of the connections got broken in the process, but that¡äs easily fixable as a Technomancer. So... let¡äs see if I analyzed anything wrong from just the parts I had for the Wheelchair. Fragments can usually cause a Technomancer to misinterpret some things inside a circuit and I finally have the time to investigate whether my suspicion is correct. The first thing I want to find out is the reason it can expand while still keeping the circuitry intact, though it may just be the unknown material. That might mean the circuit board is also made from an unknown material. It seems that they have the same insulating property my circuit boards have back at home but are made of different materials altogether. This thing has a grey tint instead of the Oztarel Federations usual red-green tint of Girnat Plastids. Oh boy, I¡äm working with an unknown material for the first time in ten years and my only contact in this world is a "Crime Syndicate under new management". This is worse than my three years on Milranos-V. There they at least used Federation normed Materials. Also, I noticed something pretty important. I analyzed this thing completely wrong after all. Was I still groggy after waking up in that bed or am I that stupid not to realize such a giant Error? Back on Earia Milon would¡äve skinned me alive for such a rookie mistake, so I¡äm never going to tell anyone that I made one in the first place. Why didn¡ät I cross-examine this thing with another one when I modified this Wheelchair? Usually, I wouldn¡ät just overlook something of this magnitude, otherwise, my time would¡äve already ended before reaching this place. Oh well, no use crying over spilt milk at least I know it¡äs easier to modify then stuff back home, meaning there¡äs probably no Technomancers in this place. However, it also means I¡äm working with unknown things that could potentially be lethal, explosive or a mix of the two since people forbid that ever since Technomancers were a thing. Ok, Mira, from now on carefully analyze the things you work on to the best of your ability. Starting with this peeled Pok¨¦ball. After activating the Ability of a Technomancer to Analyze Circuits and their function I come to the conclusion... that I have no fucking clue how it expands by just pressing a button. I mean I know it runs on atmospheric Mana in combination with the users Mana, but there¡äs nothing coded on this thing to expand or contract. It might just be the Material in itself because it seems to send Mana into itself once but the function for it actually expanding is missing. On the other hand, the catching Mechanism was quite easy to figure out and the thing I was most wrong about. It encases the Pok¨¦mon in ambient Mana and the Users mana and then imprints the Users mana into the thing that got caught. So that¡äs where the Mana Absorbing Function comes into play, It has nothing to do with the expanding of the Ball but the catching mechanism instead. If the users Mana is weaker then the Pok¨¦mon¡äs, it can break out of the ball if it wishes to do so. They¡äre basically making it think you¡äre something like a Pack Leader slash Boss and know better what to do in a certain situation. So it wasn¡ät mind-control after all... That¡äs good, otherwise, this place would get destroyed as soon as somebody from the Federations Technology Inspection Team sets foot on here and sees this thing. It also means I can use it without concern myself since our location gets catalogued and it¡äd be bad to have found you with a Mind Control enabling device, especially if you¡äre a Technomancer. Well, the Alakazam would¡äve already been a grey zone and depending on the person I¡äd probably be found guilty and either sent to a meat farm or get my mind wiped and work at a factory for the rest of my life. And finally, the Storing mechanism is a different beast altogether. That thing spans about eighty per cent of the entire Balls Circuit and is more complicated than I previously presumed probably because I only had about fifty per cent of the ball in mendable condition. It might take me about half a year of nonstop analyzing this thing to get how it works correctly. At least I know it uses Sub-Dimensions but that¡äs the easiest part to figure out. It¡äs literally the only thing that people would use Space-Type converted Mana for in this case. After finding out that I won¡ät be able to find out the secrets of this machine without at least half a year of actual hard work I do what every other person would do in this situation and that is to enjoy this boat trip and have some nice free time. After putting the ball away I notice a huge Bridge coming up on the horizon. I¡äm guessing that¡äs the highway the three mentioned. At least they know how to build bridges high enough for anything to get past under it. Spinning the Wheelchair around halfway to observe James fishing for who knows what. There¡äs already a bucket beside him with some things already inside. They¡äre ''things'' that looks kind of like an Orange version of the Earian Deep-Snapper just a whole lot smaller, so I use the Pok¨¦dex presuming that it is a Pok¨¦mon and indeed it is. Opening the Pok¨¦dex and pointing it at the thing in the bucket I get the information I want. Turns out it is called Krabby and it uses those oversized claws it has to keep its balance and they also regrow if cut off. Also as soon as I got done looking at that Krabby James stands up with the Fishing Rod and starts pulling hard on it. What flies over his head and on the Deck looks like a bulkier version of those Krabbys. (James) "Nice. A Kingler is a big boon for our pockets. Well, first I gotta Knock it out, go Weezing" The Pok¨¦ball James throws lets out a purple smoking Ball with eyes, craters, a mouth and a skull-like mark on its lower body with another head dangling on its side. On the other side of this competition, this Kingler is about four times bigger than the Krabbys in the bucket and has a claw of its own size to boot. It also has something that looks like a crown on its head since they¡äre too dull to be defensively relevant Spikes. Well, at least that explains the King part of its name. It also looks as inbred as one with that horrible underbite, so the King part fits it even more. Anyways I should just sit back and enjoy the show at a safe distance so I¡äm not going to move from here and besides, I¡äm on the other side of the boat, what¡äs the worst that could happen. (James) "Weezing rob its vision with Smog and then hit it with a Tackle." The Weezing opens its mouth and releases the same brown gas that comes out of its craters and engulfs the Kingler until it flies out moments later face first in my direction. I really shouldn¡ät tempt fate with my thoughts. It is however stopped by Alakazam before hitting me. It is instead lifted into the air by it. If Alakazam was Mind controlled he probably wouldn¡ät have moved, so my first analysis was indeed wrong. I ask the Alakazam to throw it back over to James who has Weezing Tackle it again and this repeats like a twisted version of a ball game until the Kinglers Big Claw starts glowing during the third round of passing it back and forth and smashes Weezing straight off the ship. James seems to quickly react by recalling Weezing back into its Pok¨¦ball and yells for Meowth to lend a Hand in this battle. That reminds me Meowth was staring at the sea by my side when I began researching Pok¨¦balls but now he¡äs nowhere to be seen. I soon find him because he jumped off the roof of the Captains Cabinet and onto the Kingler with its claws extended and pokes them into the Kinglers Eyes. Closing its eyes to avoid being blinded by Meowth''s claws, the Kingler tries to hit Meowth with its glowing big claw again only to smash itself in the face when Meowth dodges just in time. And with that, the Kingler went down and didn¡ät move again. It also has those strange Swirls in its eyes that were there too when Alakazam, Victreebel and co. got knocked out. I¡äm guessing this is their way of showing Mana exhaustion or at least what I presume is Mana exhaustion. Looking over at James he smiles like my little brother when he came home having caught the biggest Desert Tunnelworm he could find. (Mira) "So... what¡äs this big ugly thing good for?" James gleefully takes the Job of explaining what he¡äs gonna use his catch for. Turns out it¡äs a delicacy if prepared by a good chef. Of course, the Rich boy would know that, but he also knows the Sale prices and that this one is one seems to be bigger than usual. After he got done explaining every single detail about this giant Kingler the Bridge I saw when I rolled over to him was no longer in sight.Unlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon. (Mira) "Well then, what are you gonna do with those Krabby? Are they worth as much too? Or was there a special reason you kept those?" He simply urges me to look at the number of those two in the Pok¨¦dex. I think I know where this will be going since I already know Pok¨¦mon can evolve. And Lo and behold they are number 98 and 99 respectively. So this cute thing will turn into that Giant inbred looking piece of ugliness. Talk about puberty hitting you like a Phase Rifle that overheated and exploded because of it. Well, at least the taste makes it good for one thing. However, he still didn¡ät tell me what he needs those Krabby for. After asking him again what he needed the Krabby for he tells me they were just there to bait the Kingler into coming here since it¡äs basically a boss for those Krabby and Wild Kingler sells for more than farm raised Kingler. (Mira) "So, what are you gonna do with the Krabby now that you got the Kingler?" He bends down and grabs the Bucket lifting it up to his chest. (James) "Well, I was just gonna throw them back, unless you want one for yourself." Well, I think they are pretty cute. I¡äd probably have something like this as a pet back on Earia if I wasn¡ät so busy all the time. However, on second thought, this isn¡ät Earia and I don¡ät have to work right now. (Mira) "Sure, just let me get one of the Balls I haven¡ät used to experiment and grab the smallest out of the Bucket for me." While I bend down to get the Ball in the Storing compartment of the Wheelchair James throws one Krabby after the other off of the boat after comparing their sizes. They don¡ät seem to fight back though. Every single one of them is looking disheartened. After James throws off the second to last Krabby he lays down the last Krabby on the deck of the boat. (James) "Well, now you just press the button to activate the Pok¨¦ball and let it drop on the Krabby so it can open up and catch it." Doing as James said I press the button on the Pok¨¦ball making it expand and drop in on top of the Krabby. The Krabby changes into the same familiar red Light I¡äve already seen quite a few times when Pok¨¦balls are involved. Suddenly though the ball starts shaking with a red light flashing on the button which suddenly ends with a ''THUNK'' sound. So that¡äs what a resisting Pok¨¦mon sounds like and it seems to get three chances to get out. After the sound comes out of the Ball James grabs it and throws it over to me. (James) "Congrats, you caught yourself a Krabby. You can give it a Nickname in the first five minutes of catching a Pok¨¦mon by the way, but most Trainers don¡ät get too attached to their Pok¨¦mon since they could die if you¡äre battling in the Wild and an enemy or wild Pok¨¦mon poisons your Pok¨¦mon when you¡äre out of Antidotes and about a day away from the next Pok¨¦mon Center." Well, I wasn¡ät planning on battling again at any time in the future, but I¡äm not going to nickname this Krabby since I suck at naming things since I usually make them way too complicated. (Mira) "Nah, I¡äm good. my naming sense is not the most stellar after all." James just shrugs and walks over to Captain Smo. Presumably, to store this Kingler somewhere until we dock. Since I lost interest in the Kingler I wheel over to Jessie to see what she¡äs doing and whether she¡äs just lying there to relax or continues with reading her book. Turns out it was prediction Number two. (Mira) "Heya Jessie, what¡äre you reading? I¡äm taking a break right now from researching and James caught a Kingler just now." At the mention of the word Kingler, she turns over to me. I swear if her retinas could change they would be money symbols at this point. (Jessie) "Nice, depending on the Kinglers quality, we¡äd be able to get quite the sum of Pok¨¦ En. Then we can finally pay back that damn R&D Team and continue onwards debt free." Wait, the R&D Team of Team Rocket bills its Members? That¡äs a pretty shitty thing to do. And for Prototypes nonetheless. (Mira) "What are they billing you for that you have to sell a Kingler just to get rid of the debt?" Jessie sighs and shows me the book she was reading. (Jessie) "Those are our groups'' finances. You remember that we were tasked with getting that Pikachu? That thing had enough power to blow up one mech after the other. And then it all just spiralled out of control and that Pikachu destroyed about Thirty-Five Mecha and they billed us for about twenty-six Million Pok¨¦ En in total. Usually, we¡äd have to pay this back with our group''s salary of 600 thousand Pok¨¦ En a month meant we were pretty much broke at the start of the month except for the bare minimum of living expenses. But thanks to us escorting you our salary shot up ten times as high and that Kingler will also be a decent sum. We¡äre currently still eight million short but after that, we¡äre debt-free and can enjoy a life that isn¡ät just saving up money only to have it taken from us." Wow, their Researchers are pretty greedy. They probably billed them to get more raw Materials to develop more Mechs and kept the quality low on the sent out ones on purpose to skimp on costs and cash in more profit from the people they send them to. I place a hand on her shoulder before wheeling off and telling her to stay strong. After talking to the two I resume staring out at the open Sea when I see a Cliff coming closer to the left. From the way that Highway/Bikeway was built this is probably my end goal for this trip but not for the rest of this ''vacation''. Not letting it bother me that it¡äs likely gonna take a few days to reach there I continue staring out at the wide blue sea and start thinking about what to do during the rest of the year I¡äm spending with getting used to this world. Somehow this is calming. No annoying superior telling me to get back to work after I just got done working thirty hours in one sitting, no stupid coworkers who push their work on me and no annoying customers who bitch and moan when something just can¡ät be implemented. I don¡ät know when but I seem to have drifted off into dreamland at some point because when I got shaken awake Jessie told me we already arrived at Vermillion City and James went ahead to sell the Kingler and book two Hotel rooms for us since it¡äs already getting dark outside. I¡äm just hoping that this place doesn¡ät have annoying people like that Ace Trainer ''what¡äs his name again'' ah well who cares. It¡äs not like we¡äre ever going to cross paths again. At least I hope we don¡ät. In what feels like half an hour James returned from the selling and booking with a spring in his steps like he came out of a bad cartoon and is about to sing. (James) "The Kingler was top quality guys. The Restaurant paid me two and a half million Pok¨¦ En. We¡äre debt free Jessie and we even have half a million left over for our own purposes once more." Well, that explains his happy mood. Jessie also seems pretty happy about it and Meowth is smiling from one ear to the other. (Mira) "Well then, what about the Hotel Rooms? I¡äm getting cold just sitting here." James looks over to me and gives me a Key. (James) "I got two rooms. A double for you two and a Single Room for me." So I¡äm gonna have to stay on this thing even longer? Screw that. (Mira) "So where¡äs your Key? I only see one Key on this Chain." He grabs into his shirt pocket and pulls out another Key of the same sort I¡äm already holding. (Mira) "Alakazam, bring that Key over here with Telekinesis." The Key gets a slightly blue glow and flies out of James'' hand. With both Keys now in my hand, I hand over the double room Key to Jessie to hold onto. (Mira) "No way in hell am I sharing a room. I want my peace and quiet and had just about enough of people being in the same room as me as I sleep. You two have been a team for longer than you know me so you should be no stranger to sleeping together. And in interpersonal combat, I can easily hold my own so you don¡ät have to keep playing lookout for me." They both begin to blush when I mention them sharing a room. Goddamn Teens. (Mira) "If you¡äre both gonna blush like some middle schooler holding his crushes hand for the first time, why not bring that up in the first place that you want the double room? I mean you both clearly like each other so what¡äs the problem. You don¡ät have to hold back just because I¡äm here." If I had to describe the shade of their faces it would be ''embarrassed to death red'' and they just nod shyly. I tell them that I will take Meowth to my room as well so they can spend the evening unperturbed making them blush even harder. Wheeling behind the two who had been too shy to hold hands in my presence and are now doing so I start snickering about how innocent their love is while we are going to the hotel, making them hit a red in their faces that shouldn¡ät even be possible. The Hotel is a four-floor building with what is presumably the word Hotel in Neon Inlaid Letters in front of the Reception room. The Receptionist greets James as a Mr Baltov and makes the Bellboy call the Elevator for us whilst also grabbing James and Jessies Bags. Arriving on the second floor our rooms are 213 and 225. They are across from each other and mine is the Single room 225 after snatching the Key from James. The bellboy opens the room for me since my arms aren¡ät long enough to reach the Keyhole and I thank him while he¡äs returning to the elevator and also tease James and Jessie to use a condom since a pregnancy wouldn¡ät be that good on a one-year ''sightseeing trip''. Enjoying the last bright red face the two give me I enter the room laughing and petting Meowth while Alakazam closes the door behind me and locks it with the Key. Rolling through the Room I can see it is pretty wide. Wide enough for me to not bump into anything. It looks almost as if James planned this whole thing to have me take the single room. (Mira) "Hey Meowth, how good are you at keeping your mouth shut? Because depending on the answer I¡äm going to drop you off at their room." Meowth begins laughing like I did when I was teasing them. (Meowth) "You can be assured not a single word will pass through my lips to anyone. Not even those two. After all the only one I¡äd answer to in that case would be the boss and I assume the boss knows your secret already." Sighing to myself in relief I decide to trust Meowth since he wasn¡ät included in James'' or Jessie¡äs Pok¨¦ball lineup. I lift myself off the Wheelchair returning my good old reliable tail in a flash of white and having Meowth jump back about two meters. (Meowth) "In Arceus name what the Hell is that?!" I do a few Tail stretches and answer with the simple answer of ''My Tail''. Meowth does a brilliant retorting hand gesture with an almost yelled out ''you don¡ät say''. (Mira) "Well, your boss did say I¡äm kind of important. I¡äm from another planet and landed here by accident. Your boss agreed to help me if I worked for him a bit. This trip is to get familiar with this world, its workings and most importantly its Technology." Meowth now no longer looks as creeped out about the three-meter-long tail but is showing a forcibly composed expression. (Meowth) "If the boss trusts you I have no reason to care or tell anyone, well I¡äm going to sleep now so do what you need to do now because tomorrow you¡äll probably have to camp outside if we have bad luck." I don¡ät know why but I find it reassuring that I can trust Meowth to keep shut about my species. Meowth simply lays down on top of the bed and begins to take another nap. I swear if he slept more he¡äd be comatose, but that¡äs feline species in a nutshell I guess. Meanwhile, I wriggle to the bath to finally get all that grime off of me. I didn¡ät shower in more than five days and forgot to ask Giovanni if I could take a bath or a shower. While waiting for the water to get to a nice forty degrees I slip in slowly into the bath. Damn my Scales are all itchy from not showering and I didn¡ät notice it before because it was in what I presumed to be a sub-dimension and not connected to the nerves of my body. After about an hour I¡äm done with scrubbing my scales to their usual shine. Sadly scale Treatments aren¡ät available in this room, but I guess that¡äs understandable since I presume this is a Human world. Not surprising, Mono species worlds are the norm after all. Even if these Pok¨¦mon come remarkably close to a primitive species themselves. With my Tail slipping out of the bath I return back to the Bedroom and start to coil my tail on the middle of the bed and lie the rest of my body down to sleep after drying myself off with the towels the hotel provided. Before drifting off to sleep I tell Alakazam to put a ''do not disturb'' sign in front of my door and then lock it again after he¡äs done with that. After that, I recall Alakazam into his Ball and drift off to a pleasant sleep with a dream in which the fake Jacko got blown to pieces with the rest of his organization because they trigger the self-destruction every Technomancer puts in their devices accidentally.