Hierophant was following between the group and the officer, Genbu and Excalibur not too far from his pace. As they were getting in line with some of the other officers, he quickly noticed the oddly familiar lawyer sitting at one of the tables, waving towards him.
"That couldn't be...." he mutters mostly to himself.
A violent shaking rocked Steiner up and out of the captain's seat, falling to the ground in a heap. He was blown back into reality and adjusted his glasses, cursing the event. The mad man rose himself up to the console and brought up a 3D damage report model of the ship and focused on the large hole in the hull. He narrowed his eyes and wondered why exactly this had come to pass. The intruders in the other room had been blown to pieces, the annoyance in the engine room had more than likely been taken care of, and no one else had been on board unless a couple of those tiny pokemon had snuck on and started causing trouble.
"Nothing my Shadow pokemon...can't.....handle...." Steiner almost finished saying but became immersed in disbelief at the sight that trailed along in front of the ship.
A slithering green pokemon passed by the front of the ship, all the while Steiner looking on as he'd never actually seen this sight in person before. Why was it attacking the ship? He hadn't done anything wrong....more or less. Maybe it was trying to destroy his Pokemon and saw it as a threat! As the Superia neared a swirling whirlpool, spinning out in the middle of the ocean, Steiner needed to see what was going on in the back of the ship. He grabbed his doomball and ran out of the room.
Chariot poked his head towards the window on the door of the captain's chambers, making sure Steiner was completely out of the room.
"I hope this thing's on autopilot," he mutters, "I don't trust the strength of that whirlpool swirling out the front window...."
Jessie suddenly shoves the door open, bouncing out and pointing his finger towards the front of the ship, "At last! The ship shall be mine!"
"What makes you so sure you can control this ship better than I could...?" Chariot grumbles.
"This ship is the property of Team Rocket!" Jessie proclaims while resting the back of her wist against her chin, "All ships designed by them must have a universal protocol to override control from whomever originally took ownership of it, ensuring that any Team Rocket member aware of the betrayal can easily steal back control of their property and return it to proper Team Rocket hands!"
Chariot cocks his puckered lips to the side as Jessie bounds over to the front console and begins inputting the override codes into the controls.
Nearing Cerulean City...
The black Charizard followed the Clefable down the route with the other pokemon to the nearest city. Hopefully there, someone would be able to help Julia. It was too nice of a day for what had gone on.
It wasn't long before they reached Cerulean City. Clefable points to a hospital next to the Pokemon Center, beckoning the Charizard to follow her while pointing another finger towards the Pokemon Center, seemingly commanding Ryo and his two cheering partners to take the following Clefairy and Clefa to the lobby to be looked over by the Nurse Joy there.
Once the latter had made it inside, and a group of Chansey rush over to help with the barely conscious, Clefable follows the Charizard inside to try and help explain the situation to the doctors almost irked by its sudden presence and the sight of Julia laying in its arm.
With a simple point between Julia and one of the stretchers, the doctors seemingly understood and moves to help Julia onto its bed, carting her off to the emergency room to look her over and attempt to screw off the plate without causing too much harm.