--- Team Rocket Base, Giovanni’s Room Giovanni POV---
By Arceus, that was the most disturbing shit I´ve ever seen. First we get a Human Arbok Hybrid that crashes one of our Hot air Balloons, then she wakes up and tells us she´s from another world and then to top it off she does that shit with the Wheelchair. That´s probably going to haunt my dreams for at least a month.
After trying to calm down for the last hour there´s a knock at the door to which I promptly allow entry. It´s Steven my Secretary.
(Steven) “Welcome back boss. Did you find out anything about that thing?”
(Giovanni) “Yes, I did. Did you know that she´s not from this world?”
Wow he really looks like a Magikarp with that shocked expression.
(Giovanni) “Yes, I know. Sounds unbelievable, however it´s true. Her abilities alone are stronger than any Psychic we´ve seen before, however her abilities are focused on Technology only. The worst part of it is that she´s an Air Head who changes topics at the drop of a hat and doesn´t even test new inventions before testing them on herself without any Fail-Safes. I mean just before I left she used her Ability to make Legs out of her Tail. Now that would not be so bad… if she didn´t forget to shut out the pain and don´t even get me started on the noise. That´s just Nightmare fuel.”
And now I have to get someone to watch over her, I clearly don´t want to do this myself, because I like being Sane.
(Steven) “Well I´m going to go through the register and look who can take the most punishment physically and mentally and send you the options I find. If you´re like this after a short visit I don´t want to know what happens when someone has to be with her for longer than a few hours.”
Ugh. Whoever gets this job has to get a raise and Mira should probably get an allowance as well.
I guess I should start up my PC, it should have finished the updates I installed this morning.
(Giovanni) “No. I think I will reassign one of our currently failing active Teams to her so you can start looking at viable alternatives to replace that Team. However I guess we should supply her with at least one Pokémon right?”
Steven starts thinking for a bit while walking around the room and mumbling something I can´t clearly understand.
(Steven) “Well if she made those legs, can or can she not walk with them?”
(Giovanni) “Can´t. As soon as she stands up they turn back into her tail.”
(Steven) “Well, then I think we should supply her with either a Fighting or Psychic type Pokémon, since pushing a Wheelchair all day long will be exhausting and even the Grunts won´t agree to do this kind of work.”
Right. I should´ve thought of that before.
(Giovanni) “Hmm the choice is going to be hard. Can you give me a List of all the ones we currently have in stock?”
Steven nods. It´s nice to have such a capable secretary. While Steven leaves the room I log into my PC and check the Mail to see if any of the Grunts managed to capture their target. Let´s see… Team 82 took that Kingler from that Fisher who used it to destroy his rivals boats. Team 24 captured the Hypno that was causing trouble. Team 93 got destroyed by the rampaging Nidoking and Nidoqueen, damn guess that´s going to get hairy if we don´t deal with that. I guess Archer should be able to clear that problem. Team 69 captured a bunch of Zubats… Who the hell started this inside joke that Rocket Grunts should have a Zubat or a Golbat I swear I´ll cut that Idiots pay by half for a month, we have way to many Zubats here in the base you could almost call it Zubat canyon. Team 50 was finally successful and liberated all the Dittos of that breeder scum. Gentle old couple my ass, using Dittos as breeding slaves just to get that one perfect Pokémon after another and then selling them all to the black market. Speaking of which how did the Team in charge of capturing it do in the last year?
Ah there it is Team 142 once again got blown up in a Mech the Technology department gave them. How dumb are those two, if it didn´t work the first time it won´t work after 50 times either. Well at least they got enough data for another team. Time to give them their new mission. Whilst thinking I press the intercom button
(Giovanni) “Steve. I think I will reassign Team 142 and have you look for another team to take the Job of capturing that Pikachu. Before that please concentrate solely on what Pokémon we should assign Miss Jharmind.”
(Steven) “Roger Boss. So we´re assigning Jessie, James and that talking Meowth to Miss Jharmind?”
(Giovanni) “Yes. They failed once again to get that perfectly bred Pikachu. But there are also good news. Team 50 got the Dittos out of that Breeding ground. At least now they got stopped and we won´t hear from them again, since Team 50 also burned their breeding ground to the ground.”
(Steven) “Well the Trainer most likely doesn´t even know where it came from originally. Got it as his first Pokémon from that crazy old Professor.”
Urgh don´t remind me of Oak. To think I once respected that Maniac, turned out he got those perfectly bred Pokémon from the black market to give his Town an advantage in the Pokémon League that slimy old bastard.
(Giovanni) “Let´s not talk about that old man ever again. He ruined our reputation and made us look like a criminal organization. Not that some of our grunts make it any effort to make it look differently. Anyway, how many fighting and Psychic types have we got left here?”
Steven seems to be furiously typing into the Database program.
(Steven) “Well Boss, we got quite a bunch of Mankeys and Primeapes, but those are from the aggressive sort, so more like grunt material not assistance. Otherwise the fighting Types are all already in use by other Teams. For Psychic types we have the Kadabra that got rescued from a breeding farm, the Mr. Mime that caused trouble with Barriers in Celadon the Slowpokes that we rescued from those fake Rockets in Azalea and that´s currently it for unused Pokémon.”
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Hmm that´s quite the selection we´ve got there.
(Giovanni) “I think we should provide her with the Kadabra. It could help with the Wheelchair in case she gets tired. Now that we´ve settled that I´m going to leave you to choosing which Team would be able to get that Pikachu and I´m going to send that Recall order out to Team 142.”
After a simple Roger Steven hangs up the call and I start writing the Mail for Team 142.
Team 142,
this Mail is a Recall order, you´re getting reassigned to a different Mission and another Team will take over the Mission you´re currently on, we´re currently deciding who that will be. Anyways head back to the Canyon base ASAP and get the briefing about your newly assigned Mission.
Giovanni
And send. Now I just have to hope they get here soon, since they´re only half a day away. And while waiting for them to come back I´m going to have some quality time with Persian since it waited so patiently for me to be done with work.
(Giovanni) “Come here you little Fluffball. You like it when I scratch behind your ear huh?”
While Persian is enjoying a good petting plus ear scratching Team 142 is reading the Mail they just received.
(James) “Uhm, Jessie?”
Jessie looks over to James.
(Jessie) “Yes? What´s the matter?”
(James) “We have go back to the Canyon base, we got a Recall Order.”
Jessie is visibly shaken from James words and starts shivering.
(Jessie) “Oh please no. We probably failed way too much and are probably going to get fired.”
James hurriedly runs over to her side and pats her on the back.
(James) “I wasn´t finished. The boss pulled us from this mission and is reassigning us to another one. That means no more Twerp hunting.”
(Meowth) “You know James. You could´ve really said that earlier and spared the two of us the near heart attack.”
James simply sighs and holds his hands in the air as if he´s gesturing that he´s giving up.
(James) “Fine, fine. Now let´s get going already we don´t want to keep the boss waiting.”
(Jessie) “Can we at least finish eating or do we have to eat in the Balloon?”
She says as she holds her Meal up at him.
(James) “The boss said ASAP, so I guess we´ll have to eat in the Balloon or do you want to explain to the boss why we´re late?”
Jessie looks at him with a smug expression and swallows her food.
(Jessie) “It´s not like he´ll notice.”
James now looks visibly annoyed and takes out the Pad every grunt gets.
(James) “In case you slept through the end of Rocket Academy this thing has a GPS Tracker on it in case one of the teams gets into trouble.”
Jessie is now no longer looking so smug and color drains from her face, before rushing into the Balloon and starting it up.
(Jessie) “Then what are we waiting for? Get in already and let´s blast off.”
---Meanwhile, Rocket Canyon Base, Secretary Desk Steven POV---
Steven is currently looking through Idle Rocket Teams he can assign the task of getting an overcharged Pikachu from a Trainer who got it as his first Pokémon.
Let´s see… According to the Data we got from all the destroyed Mechs this Pikachu has the Electrical output of a small Power Plant, so let´s look for Grunts with a good Ground Type in their repertoire. Hmm Team 31 has a Rhydon, but they´re known to get violent with the Trainer that owns the Target Pokémon and we don´t want an 11 year old killed for some breeder scums deeds, so they´re out, as well as Team 8, 95, 100 and 123. The only ones left would be Team 130 with their Sandslash and Team 62 with the Golem, but both of them are pretty weak in terms of Pokémon available. Might as well make it a two Team Job then, even if the Boss will hate it.
Pressing the Intercom Steven connects with Giovanni.
(Steven) “Boss, I´m finished with the selection on that bred Pikachu Job. Only two teams would have a small chance. But that´s only if they work together.”
The boss sighs and curses in a small voice. He really hates having multiple Teams on one job. Well it´s understandable, the last time he did a five Team job they had a rat in their midst and all of them got killed except for the rat. But at least that wasn´t for long since the boss took him out personally.
(Giovanni) “So the only way we can get that Pikachu is with two teams huh? Okay then, tell me the Team numbers.”
(Steven) “They´re Team 130 Jack and Lia and Team 62 Harald and Ethan. I chose them because that Pikachus Output is on the Level of a small Power Plant and both Teams have a strong Ground Type Pokémon, the other teams would be way to violent on the Trainer and he´s only eleven but close to twelve.”
(Giovanni) “Yeah… that´s probably for the best. Even if I don´t like it. Since that settles the last affair of today I´m gonna say we´re both done for the day. I need my bed after everything that happened today.”
(Steven) “Roger Boss. Have a good night.”
And with that I´m off to the Bar. At least the boss had this base built that we don´t need to leave the base for anything, well except for brothels but most of us don´t even like them, me included.
When I arrive at the bar I start hearing loud shouting. Oh great… Nelly got drunk again. She´s kind of infamous here in the base as the worst drunk of Team Rocket since she gets loud, violent and abusive in terms of language so I start to back out of the bar where even the Barkeeper has taken cover.
(Nelly) “Who´s the cunt that opened the door? Oh hey it´s Steven the old Killjoy, hows it hangin´ you bag of bones?”
Great… she noticed me. I start slowly backing out of the door when a barstool whizzes past me.
(Nelly) “WHO SAID YOU COULD LEAVE YOU SHITSACK! YOU´RE GONNA STAY HERE AND LISTEN TO MY DAY AND YOU´LL LIKE IT! UNDERSTOOD?!”
Fuck my life. Well no choice around that so I grab the Barstool she threw at me and sit down beside her at the Bar.
(Steven) “Hey Roland. One drink on the weaker side, busy day tomorrow.”
Roland, knowing exactly what I mean serves me my drink in a flash and Nelly is grabbing another glass of what I can only assume is the strongest stuff Roland has here. Wow she and the Boss must´ve been really disturbed by that Snake Woman if she breaks her own ban on anything harder than cocktails.
(Nelly) “So… Steven, this day… this fucking day… I don´t want to remember anything about it. You know that Snake bitch that dropped and smashed into one of our Balloons right?”
Yeah. I had a feeling she´d be talking about her.
(Steven) “Yeah. Boss made me assign her a helper Pokémon and made Team 142 her bodyguards slash common Sense Teachers.”
Nelly sighs out pretty loud.
(Nelly) “THANK FUCK! BECAUSE THAT WOMAN HAS NONE TO BEGIN WITH! She literally destroyed a Poké Ball, took out the capturing Mechanic, and wrote something else into it which converted her tail into legs. Now that wouldn´t be so bad, if it weren´t for the noise, it was like hearing a person being thrown legs first into a fucking wood chipper and the person screams their soul out throughout the entire procedure. I just want to wipe my fucking memory of today and I´m telling you this so you can remind me to tell her to do something about that, because that stupid CUNT will probably do this again. In fact, she did that shit twice. Because the same happened in reverse when she stood up.
Now if you´ll excuse me, I´ll go puke my fucking guts out. BUH-BYE!”
She yells as she wobbles to the toilets and even selects the mens toilet by accident. Wow that really must´ve hit her hard since she´s used to seeing almost lethal burns from fire, acid, frost, you name it. But I guess it´s different if you hear the sounds that lead to it in the first place.
(Steven) “Hey Roland. You got any Paper and a pen lying around? Need to write it down before I forget it. And can you get Nelly to her Room after that? I´m pretty sure she passed out on the Toilet.”
Roland simply grunts, hands me an A5 Paper and a Pen while he gets Nelly out of the Toilet with her leaned on his shoulder, which would look kind of cool if Nelly wasn´t two heads bigger than him. Handing him the Paper with the Notes for Sober Nelly I start walking towards my Room as well. On this day I fell asleep as soon as my face hit the Pillow.