Ryuta reluctantly nods, wanting this eval to be over and done with more for Mewtwo's sake than his own reasons.
James, meanwhile has chosen now to slip out of the room and attempt to head back to Domino's room to try and warn her of Hierophant and Jenny's presence in the facilty, but due to the winding hallways leading to her office, he inadvertently almost encounters the two and the odd looking man following after them. Irked, he scrambles into the nearest room he could open and ducks away from the windows to avoid Hierophant spotting and uncovering his identity. Unfortunately, he didn't get a chance to see if anyone noticed him when he almost dove out of the way of a flamethrower flying at him.
Sitting on the floor near the door and looking to the source, he finds himself in the room where they had been keeping the clones; Charizardtwo being the least happy seeing what it thought was another sadistic scientist saunter in to poke it with more needles and pull its scales.
"How...how coincidental...." he mutters with a nervous laugh before pulling himself upright.
"What was that noise?" Jenny yelps as she pokes her head towards the window of the room. James irks and drops to a sitting position below the window, watching as Jenny pans around the room and noticing the cramped confinements the clones were subjected to.
Hierophant poked his head through the other door, though he has yet to notice James due to his focus being on the discomforting positions of the clones larger than the Pikachu and Meowth clones sitting in the crates.
"Should those clones be kept in such cramped boxes?" he asked.
"The regulation of this Institute is almost appalling," Jenny sighs, "I'll have to talk to the Principal while we're here to at least widen the space they were confined to."
She then marches off, prompting Hierophant and Phoenix to follow after her, leaving James to poke his head out the window before sighing with relief and looking back to the clones sitting uncomfortably in their cramped confinements, wondering if he should stick around and keep an eye on them or continue towards Domino's office and warn her of their presence.
(Trying to not imagine Steiner looking at the side of my head while typing this...)
The whirlpool widened and widened until a the water dipped down into a mouth in the ocean, creating a massive rectangular black hole that consumed the water around it. The Superia continued downward until it disappeared below the water's surface. Waterfalls of the oceans fell and splashed upon the greatship as the hole closed up and the fortress descended toward the hangar. Steiner's men did their best to land the ship carefully, all the while sweating bullets from the passings of Kyogre and the subtle shaking from outside. The mad scientist looked on at the inside of his home as it came into view. After all those years of trouble, he'd finally returned without being empty handed. As the ship landed and made a loud thud against the steel floor, Steiner hung out of the open hatch as his followers cheered and roared with applause. He paid no mind to the imminent threats that loomed over his head as he wanted to pour confidence into the heads of his lackeys. He jumped off and was shortly followed by his shadow Froslass at which most of the crowd was amazed to see. Steiner raised his Doomball in the air as if offering it to a higher power.
"Everyone! I return with grand news! I sought out on my quest to find the god that would put us on the map, put us on top of the world! The Universe! I hold here in my hand...that god." Steiner exclaimed to his subjects.
The crowd cheered then grew silent in wonderment as Steiner caressed his trophy. He slightly opened one eye to find himself still in the hangar with these peons.
"Well, I've done my part! Now, clean the ship up, inside and out! I want it ready for my next excursion. Prim and trim her, will you? I also need lab crew to get the bodies off the walls and bring them down." Steiner said as he began to walk through the crowd. "I'm starving as well. Have a meal prepared when I reach my lab. I have much MUCH work to do." Steiner said as he walked down the bay and through a pair a steel doors, leading to an underwater tunnel. The blackened Froslass followed keeping up with its master. It couldn't help, however, feel like it should be taking orders from another as well.
Chariot peeked out the window, barely unnoticed by the band of half-wit boot-kissers cheering the return of their manic science overlord, barely overhearing his joyous speech of capturing a god. His only assumption was that he had somehow managed to catch Arceus as it was the only Legendary Pokemon worshiped like a god.
His contemplation is cut short when Steiner ordered the ship to be cleaned. He had to get Synthis and Jessie out of the ship before they're spotted and bombarded by whatever crazy experiment the mad scientist was intending to subject them to.
Looking out the captain's chambers, he finds Jessie still inputting the override commands, pondering if it was a long process or the ship wasn't accepting any of them. He decides to leave her alone and heads for the bridge exit only to suddenly hear a computerized voice echo throughout the ship.
Manual Override code accepted. Customary authorization has been reset to default ID input for access to ship controls."Jackpot!" Jessie squeals as she flops down in her chair and begins punching in her ID number, "Now it's only a simple matter of retaking control of the Grand Rhydon and taking it back to Team Rocket to be reestablished to a more worthy pilot!"
"Aren't you the least bit concerned about what that guy has in that contraption of a Pokeball!?" Chariot almost exclaimed.
"My mission is to find Mewtwo's 'slave' and bring her back to Team Rocket to lure it back to where it rightfully belongs!" Jessie protests, "Whatever nonsense Ahrzyal has gotten this ship into is her own fault and hers to clean up!"
"Were you even paying attention to what that maniac said!? He has some kind of Legendary god Pokemon in his possession and if we don't figure out some way of getting it out of his hands, he's going to use that Pokemon to take over this planet; perhaps even the organization you hail to!"
Hearing this caused Jessie to stall a bit with her finger hovering over the enter button. Another nut job has gotten his hands on a Legendary Pokemon? If she could phone in back up, nay, steal ownership of that Pokemon and presented to Giovanni herself, not only will Team Rocket be the ones calling the shots, she will be praised as the one that allowed it to happen.
Squealing with delight, she slams her finger on the enter button, causing another computerized voice to blare throughout the ship.
Team Rocket ID Number accepted. Authorization: Jessie."Why chuck one Pokeball at a Pidgey when can chuck two and get the same result!?" she squeals again while looking through the ships menu for weapons, "I'll just bring up some weapons I can use to sink that abomination of a hide out, fetch whatever Pokeball that crazed scientist used to capture the Legendary god Pokemon and fly out of this oceanic nightmare with no less harm done than whatever fate befalls the fool who dared to involve a Team Rocket member!"
Chariot just stood between the threshold of the captain's chambers, unsure of whether or not Jessie's plan was going to work without some other looming threat waiting to crash her party.
"I hope this thing's designed to float...." he grumbles while throwing his hand over his face.
Julia's eyes opened suddenly to the thought of Steiner's smile and cackle. She relaxed a bit as she realized she was on one of the beds in a pokemon center. She laid still but her eyes scanned the room, still groggy from waking up so fast. The only thing she could remember was the smell of crisp air but it was so ominous. Then came visions of Steiner standing over the body of Froslass but she couldn't tell what he was doing. It looked like Froslynn was having a terrible nightmare. Next was him walking over to Ahrzayl. She kept fading in and out of consciousness. He got closer and closer to her. The there was a bright red flash and she was gone. Julia looked up at the ceiling and squeezed her eyes shut, letting a tear drop from them. It wouldn't be long now until a doctor showed up to check on her. She rose her hand to her mouth and the whole bottom of her face was completely wrapped in bandages. Fortunately, the metal brace had been removed but the anger and hate was still there. When she got out, there would be nowhere she wouldn't look for the man that did that too her and took her best friend away from her.
Ryo, Posu and Nega wandered into the hospital to check on the Shiny Charizard. While the two cheering Pokemon were heading towards him, Ryo sensed Julia had woken up and decides to go check on her despite knowing that one of the doctors was already heading over to do the same.
He soon finds the door where her aura was and heads inside, finding her laying in bed with a bandage covering her lower mouth, indicating that they had taken the grotesquely screwed band from her mouth and had transferred her here to let her recover. Though it was against his better judgement, he decides to head into the room and get a better sense of her billowing aura, seeing a mixture of anger and hate among the sorrow of losing her best friend.
Show Posts