Pokemon The Wandering Scientist - Chapter 7 Chapter 7

As they approached the cruiser, the man that last approached them was standing beside the entrance. They instantly recognised each other.

“Hello sir, please follow me.” He said, bringing them into the cruiser.

He brought them into an empty cargo space.

“Wait here, Captain will come and meet you later.”

He then left the cargo.

But it appears the cargo wasn’t empty. They heard sounds of metals bumping into each other, sounds a person tinkering with metals would make.

Out of curiosity, William snuck towards the source of sound. Alex took a quick glance at him then ignored his actions, staying in place.

As he approached, he saw a pokemon tinkering with a machine.

It was a meowth.

William stood silently behind it, Gardevoir right behind him, her head poking out of his shoulders.

He was observing the meowth.

It wasn’t a common sight for a pokemon to use human technology, not to mention tinkering with it, or even make it.

But this meowth was tinkering said machine.

The meowth suddenly grabbed the machine and held it up.

“Hmph! This kind of machinery is way too easy, why would they need me to fix it meowth?” It spoke.

At that exact moment, it turned around and bumped right into William, who didn’t react in time as he heard the pokemon talk.

“Ah, sorry meowth, I didn’t…-” it raised its head, instantly seeing William.

After staring at each other for about 3 seconds, the meowth suddenly bounced back and took a battle stance.

“You’ve seen too much, hand over your pokemon and stay still here meowth.” It threatened.

“Meowth, stop it, he is one of the newer field agents.” A timely female voice came by, everyone turned over to the source.

The captain William and Alex met before was standing by the side, with Alex right beside her.

“Understood meowth.”

The meowth retracted its claws and its battle stance.

“Well, this is meowth, he is currently in charge of our mechanical tools.” The captain introduced Meowth to them, but Alex was obviously shocked by the meowth speaking, as her eyes widened unnaturally.

“Nice to meet you meowth.”

The meowth’s attitude changed immediately as it learned that the person in front of it is a new field agent.

“Nice to meet you, I’m Limbo, that one over there is Chimera, and this is our team mascot, Gardevoir.”

William greeted the meowth while pointing at Alex and Gardevoir individually as he introduced them.

“A bunch of strange names meowth.”

That was its comment.

“Anyways, show them our machinery.”

The captain gave her orders.

“Well, check this out meowth.” The meowth said as he held out the machine William watched him tinker for the whole time.

It was a giant metallic box with two stripes that allowed it to be worn backpack style. On top of it was two suction tubes with a bell shaped suction cup.

As the meowth wore the machine and pressed a button on his shoulder, a large suction force was generated from the suction tubes. In the blink of an eye, two of the pokeballs on William’s belt was sucked into the machine, William had to held on to the other pokeballs to prevent it from being sucked away.

“How’s it? Good right?” Meowth asked as if he was showing off his own creations.

He then opened the machine to take the two pokeballs sucked into it and handed it over to William.

“And so? What is this for?”

William took his pokeballs back and turned towards the captain.

“We are going to commence operation right after we enter public oceans. We will use these machines to suck the trainer’s pokeballs into it, and steal their pokemons.” The captain gave their plan out.

“It’s too early…” Alex shook her head, “If I were you, I’d commence operation after lunch, which is when most people had finished lunch and is on their lowest guard. Plus, you could drug the food to lower the trainer’s battle force.”

“Logical. I’ll consider your suggestion.” The captain nodded.

“Also, regarding your situations, we plan to make you both backup members.”

“Backup members?” Both Alex and William asked.

“Yes, basically something like a teen scout, that way, you have maximum freedom as you can do anything you like while being able to accept Team Rocket missions.” The captain explained.

Both Alex and William were satisfied by this policy.

“You’re dismissed now, an agent will tell you when is our operation time and location.”

And so, the trio left.

Just as they were walking along the corridor back to the main hall,

“Since when did I become the Team Mascot?” Gardevoir asked,

Unlike the usual telepathy though, Gardevoir was speaking, just like the meowth earlier.

William didn’t noticed that at first, unlike Alex, who already stood still from shock.

“Of course you are, you’re the pokemon that is registered as our team pokemon.”

He replied swiftly, until he suddenly walked slower and slower, before coming to a full stop.

He suddenly realised that it wasn’t telepathy, but instead sound transmitted via vibrations of air, a.k.a. Speaking.

“You can speak?! Since when?!”

William asked confused and excitedly.

“Turns out speaking wasn’t that hard.” She shrugged, not at all caring about the hundreds of thousands of pokemans that couldn’t speak, or the belief built in the human society given to the two in-front of her.

“It’s just simply reprogramming and reworking on my normal battlecry, basically reworking the sound pitches. I have to thank that meowth, he showed me the way to speak properly.” Gardevoir’s eyes lit up slightly.

Alex turned towards her Gengar, pulling it up from her shadow. “You heard the details, try doing that?” She commanded.

Her Gengar looked helpless as it shook its head furiously. Having almost no idea what Gardevoir was saying.

“See? It isn’t a simple feat, I guess learning a bit of science does help a lot no matter what.”

William said as he saw the interaction between those two.

Alex’s eyes rolled as she heard him, and her hands released Gengar, who dived into Alex’s shadow the instant it was released.

“And we are back.” William announced as they reached the main hall.

By this time, the Cruiser was already crowded. Trainers were everywhere, chatting and discussing about their pokemons. Some were grouped up in the middle of the hall, battling it out.

On the side was booths with their owners trying to sell their own respective products to the trainers.

And scattered everywhere were tables full of food and drinks that looks tasty.

Also, waiters and waitresses were traveling all around the place, holding a tray with drinks on it.

William was affected by the atmosphere, and so is Gardevoir. They couldn’t help but look around, finding points of interest amongst the trainers by listening and watching them.

Alex on the other hand, doesn’t seem to be affected by the atmosphere, she was more attracted by the booths by the side.

And so, they planned to meet up after an hour or two, as the time was about 7:30am, meaning they’d meet up at 9:30am. After that, they separated apart, each minding their own business.
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