Pokemon The Wandering Scientist - Chapter 9 Chapter 9

“It’s time now.” A Team Rocket grunt knocked on the trio’s room door, interrupting the them.

“Alright, got it.” William replied, standing up from the chair he was sitting at.

Gardevoir went ahead and took a blue pill, her skin started to turn blue slowly, and the emotion in her eyes started disappearing, unnoticeable still.

Alex placed her notebook back into her bag, Gengar submerged into her shadow.

The atmosphere was tense, everyone knows what is going to happen next.

After travelling unnoticed, they managed to arrive at the storage room they last met the captain.

“Go put on your uniforms.” The captain pointed at two corners of the storage room.

William and Alex each picked one side, and quickly dressed into their respective uniforms.

Soon, William transformed into Limbo, a mysterious Team Rocket agent with a special uniform that has the iconic logo, the big R, on the position of his heart. There was also a hood that he put on. And not to forget, the white mask gave him a mysterious sense.

And looking at Alex, William swore he almost couldn’t recognise her.

Her beanie now gone, revealed a medium length of blonde hair that crashed over her shoulder. An unusual colour in Kanto.

With her scarf gone, her face is fully revealed. The finale piece to the puzzle was complete, her face was fully revealed.

Before, she looked kind of gender neutral, at most a bit handsome, but now, just revealing her full face and with her hair shown, she’s transformed others opinion from a decently handsome teenager into a gorgeous female.

Other than that, her secondary sex characteristics are also a lot more obvious.

Overall speaking, William just couldn’t imagine a female being able to grow like-so at 15. This also meant that there was no way people could relate her with the shady person that she showed before.

The captain though, only glanced at her a few more times, then proceeded as normal.

“I am Ester. Team Rocket Captain, commander of this operation. In this operation, your goals is to follow me and stay beside me while helping our cause. I will access your compatibility with Team Rocket to decide your future treatment in Team Rocket.” Captain Ester introduced herself for the first time.

“Understood.” Alex and William replied at the same time.

Ester turned back, and went out the door, Alex and William following closely.

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By this time, lunch was just about finished, everyone was almost done with their food, some were planning on a walk on the deck.

Suddenly, the doors that allowed movement between sections of the cruiser were closed all at once. The windows by the side were also locked and the thick curtains were dropped.

The entire main hall was locked.

Just as the trainers were confused, the lights were turned off as well. After a few seconds, a spotlight shone on the middle of the main hall. It was right on a table, where a trio with the talking meowth Alex and William had seen before stood. They were carrying the pokeball sucking machine.

“Prepare for trouble!”

“Make it double!”

Pointing at the trio that was basically a joke for William, he asked,

“What are these guys doing?”

“… Attracting attention.” Ester pulled her hood on, her ruby like eyes scanning the surrounding areas. “Allowing others to position themselves.”

“It works?” William was severely in doubt of such a tactic.

“Meowth! That’s right!” Nevertheless, it actually worked. As the trio finished their motto, the lights turned on, the trainers suddenly realise that there were a bunch of black clothed Team Rocket members surrounding them while carrying a strange machine.

As Jessie, whose name was known in the motto started her machine, the others started their machines as well, as if it was a signal.

The large suction force instantly sucked away some pokeballs from the unwary trainers. Even if there were a few that went ahead and held their pokeballs in place, a Team Rocket member would just go in and strip them of their pokeballs.

The action seemed to went smoothly, until suddenly,

“Pikachu!”

“Pi-kachu!!”

A flash of electricity passed, leaving behind a Team Rocket grunt that was shocked out of conscious and fell onto the ground.

A familiar sound shouted amongst the crowd.

“I’d rather fight to the last than give you guys our pokemons!”

A quick glance from William instantly confirmed the person as Ash.

“Yea! We shall fight to the end!” As Ash brought up the idea, the other trainers were reminded, and reacted from the initial shock. Not long later, all kinds of pokemons started coming out of their pokeballs, and soon enough, dozens of Team Rocket members were attacked and lost consciousness.

“Are we really working with people of this calibre?” William couldn’t help but mumble as he saw the Team Rocket members do nothing but continue sucking pokeballs with their machines as they were attacked. “They’ve already sent out their pokemons and you guys are not taking any responsive action?”

“Squad A to D return fire, squad E continue.” Just at this moment, Ester quickly gave her orders.

The Team Rocket grunts responded quickly, releasing their pokemons except for a few that continued using the machine.

And thus, a chaotic battle began.

As soon as Ester’s orders were given, she pulled out her pokeballs, releasing a gulpin and a weepinbell.

Meanwhile, Alex wasn’t doing nothing. She sent out her Gengar to join the battle, who started blasting Pokemon and trainers alike.

Ester nodded slightly as she saw Alex’s performance. She then turned to her pokemons.

“Weepinbell, use vine whip. Gulpin, use stockpile and wait for an opportunity.”

Gulpin opened its mouth, and as it took a deep breath, yellow lights started converging towards it. Weepingbell jumped into the battlefield, vines that stretched out from its mouth quickly controlled a geodude. Using the geodude as a weapon, it slammed the geodude as if it was a chain ball, causing pokemons and trainers to evade it.

Due to their outstanding performance, those that believe themselves strong enough started to attack Ester and Alex, some even Ace Trainers.

“Charizard! Use Flamethrower on Gengar!” “Skarmory! Use Air Cutter on Weepinbell!”

A pair of teenage trainers dressed in a lover pair T-shirt commanded, showing decent teamwork.

They weren’t the only ones, most skills were flying towards Gengar and Weepinbell, but some were targeted straight at Alex and Ester.

(Gardevoir, establish zone.) William finally took his action, ordering Gardevoir via telepathy connection established before battle.

Gardevoir’s skin that was originally green were now blue, and her ruby like eyes that were full of emotion now void.

Suddenly, she acted. A hollowed cube was constructed on her hand, followed by a faint purple light that constructed the exact cube surrounding most of the main hall. A fitting skill to be referred as Zone.

As the skills were approaching Gengar and Weepinbell, they disappeared, quickly reappearing somewhere in the middle of the trainers, causing damage to them instead.

The space coordinates were reflected in William’s mind, as well as Gardevoir’s cube model. Constants and variables are quickly established as the battle went on, allowing more precise actions.

Alex turned around, looking into Gardevoir. The emotion pokemon that she was familiar with suddenly changed. Her eyes were void, and replaced by flows of data that she could barely understand.

Alex frowned a bit as she saw them attack the trainers themselves she then looked at William with a bit of dissatisfaction.

But in respond to that, William shook his head slightly, indicating that he wasn’t in full control.

Only William himself knows why. It is because the blue pill that allowed Gardevoir to turn blue was actually a decomposing medicine, to remove the green pill’s effects. However, the green pill itself actually works by suppressing a certain DNA sequence, allowing Gardevoir who was originally blue turn into green.

Yet, there are also side effects, as that sequence also allows a more subjective form of self strengthening, this is why most shiny Pokemon could live in the wild, they were given another form of advantage, likely self discipline in compensation for their loss of protective colour.

But for someone like William and Gardevoir, self discipline would mean removing all non relatable thoughts to one objective. Meaning that absolute rational thinking would be the result, and for as long as there’s one target, every action to serve the target would have to be absolute rational.

Here’s where the problem comes in. Gardevoir’s target doesn’t exactly overlap with William’s, her subconscious target was always and forever, to protect William from danger.

Anything else goes aside. And she wouldn’t even listen to William if she believes the action may endanger William by even the slightest bit in this mode.

In fact, the only reason she didn’t just teleport William out of this place was because she knew that the danger of being hunted by Team Rocket and the League was more than the danger of William staying inside.

And for now, her objective was to end the fight as quickly as possible, without losing too much energy to prevent sudden events.

This is exactly why William was not in control of the situation, he couldn’t fully command Gardevoir in this state.

Nevertheless, the battle had to continue.
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