No, they weren't. I say they weren't, so they weren't. Halfway done the next chapter, but prbly won't finish it until after x-mas.
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Lucky people. I cut it a little short, but I finished the next chapter. I'll probably make it longer after Christmas, but it should suffice for now. I have no idea what chapter it's really supposed to be, so it's name is just question marks for now. Enjoy.
Chapter ???
Lightning lost track of the time she had spent in the tiny steel cage the Rockets had imprisoned her in. All she knew was that every minute of it was torture, and when they took her out of her cage it was even worse. After running several painful tests that had involved multiple blood samples, long tubes being attached to her so that they could inject strange fluids into her bloodstream and computer scans, she decided that the cramped conditions of her cage were better than being experimented on. She was especially worried that the harsh conditions and getting little to no food once a day was going to kill her.
“Hey, did you hear the news?”
This was just one of the many Pokémon that was in a cage near hers.
“No, but I’m not sure I want to hear it. Did another Pokémon die?”
“No, but an Admin did. He just got back from doing computer work at some airport and was reporting a spy when he dropped dead. Apparently some Raichu and its trainer were attempting to find where we are now, the Rocket’s HQ, but died of poison before he could describe the human. Nobody knows how he got poisoned, but that’s one less of those scum around here.”
Lightning’s spirits had risen momentarily when she had heard there was a Raichu, but had sunk again just as quickly when she heard it had a trainer.
“Even if it was Spark,” She thought, “He couldn’t come after me. His trainer would stop him.”
Silence was instant when the Pokémon heard the loud, metal door open to admit some Rockets. Dressed in his grimy, blood stained lab coat, the Rocket’s head scientist walked into the large dark room. Going over to a flickering computer screen he looked at the statistics, started yelling. Tripping in his haste, the Grunt who had responded to the outraged calling fell onto a table, breaking several of the liquid filled beakers onto his face and knocking the rest onto the floor where they shattered. Horrible screaming filled the air as the unfortunate Rocket clawed at his face, trying to get the liquid off, but failing. Quickly freezing up, the man’s face hardened into that expression of agony and became harder than steel. Rolling off the table, the Rocket landed face up on the floor, his mouth frozen open. His eyes widened in terror as he saw a drop of that same liquid that had caused him so much pain fall off the table and into his open mouth. Sliding down his throat until it had been absorbed, the droplet made his entire throat hard so he couldn’t breathe. Stomping over to the dead Grunt, the scientist only glanced at him before turning to the caged Pokémon, who were trying to keep from laughing at the scene.
“Now I know some of you can understand me, so listen up and tell all your disgusting little friends over there too. That’s what would happen to you if any of my liquid dropped down your throat. Think of what it would do if it hit your stomach too. Now where are those Rare Candies?”
These last words weren’t directed at the Pokémon, but to himself. But that didn’t stop the Pokémon who had learned a lot of the human language to overhear him. Since the walls of her cage were solid, Lightning couldn’t see the others, but that didn’t stop her from feeling every other Pokémon in the room from turning towards her.
“Looks like today’s the day they’re going to Rare Candy you up to level one hundred, Lightning.”
“Yeah, of course the new shipment from wherever they get them would come in today. What’s the point of calling them RARE Candy if they can get enough to level me up from level twenty to level one hundred? Obviously they’re not that rare.”
But her rant was abruptly cut off as a Grunt came in and carried her cage away, presumably to the testing area. The poorly lit hallway looked even darker to the Pikachu as the crack riddled concrete floor quickly passed underneath her, shadows flickering with the lights, as she was transported to the hard, steel table where she would be held and force fed Rare Candies until her level hit its max.
“I wonder why they’re leveling me up to level one hundred and not some other more powerful Pokémon. I can’t be that strong.”
Arriving at the testing room, the Rocket opened the heavy door with a grunt of exertion and walked inside. Multicolored lights flashed on and off around a large computer screen in the big, concrete room.
“Everything here is either made of steel, concrete or both.” Lightning thought before her cage was dropped on the table that the room was centered around.
Lightning tumbled out of her cage when it was opened and was quickly immobilized by steel clamps, her head was forced to face front and watch the Rocket’s scientist spin around in his chair and softly begin to speak to her.
“Now you obviously can’t understand me because you’re a dumb animal, but I’m going to explain my evil plan anyway because that’s what the evil geniuses do in stories, and quite frankly how this is working so perfectly, it feels like we’re in a story.”
Pulling out what looked like a strange multi-holed flute, he started pacing back and forth in front of Lightning and continued.
“This is an near finished Azure Flute. Carved from the gem which makes up Starmie’s core, this flute has been dipped in that liquid you saw earlier, so it is almost indestructible. You won’t know that the only way to summon Arceus, the most powerful Pokémon there is, is to play this flute at the top of Mount Cornet. That will cause the flute to crumble into dust, but it will create stairs that lead to the Hall of Origin. Once that is accomplished, Arceus will appear. I’m telling you because when that does happen, it'll be the end of the world as you know it. But just carving the flute isn’t enough. It needs to be dipped in magma then frozen at sub zero temperatures. Once we do that, we need it struck by electricity so powerful it would kill living creature if exposed to it for more then a few seconds. At this moment Team Rocket is endeavoring to wake Mount Cornet from its dormant state to that of an active volcano so we can fulfill the magma requirement and we have already frozen the flute, so all that will be left is the electricity, which is where you will come in.”
Pausing, he walked over to the computer’s keyboard and pressed a complicated series of numbers and letters and walked back over to the struggling Pikachu and continued his lecture.
“Once you are level one hundred, we will give you a Light Ball and forcibly extract your electricity and use it to complete the Azure Flute. We will then proceed to use your electricity to capture Arceus and rule the world, just like we would if this was a story.”
Even without knowledge of human speech, Lightning caught a few words, namely Arceus, electricity and Light Ball. Putting the three together, she realized that they were going to get a Light Ball somehow and give it to her. Then, with her heightened power, they were going to capture Arceus, but how would they find Arceus? Trying, and failing, to shrug, she watched the human begin to cackle. Until, that is, a bug that was unfortunate enough to get close to him when he inhaled was sucked into his throat causing him to double over and start emitting huge, heaving coughs. Giggling to herself, the Pikachu knew that this would probably be the last time she’d laugh for sometime.
There ya go. R&R please, and until I expand it, Merry Christmas. The addition well probably be sometime in early January, but might be as early as the 26th.