---Team Rocket Base, Infirmary, Mira POV---

Waking up I see a white ceiling making me realize, this is not my home. Wait, I get a sense of Déjà vu from that… Oh right, I fainted yesterday. Okay, that wasn´t part of my plan for fitting in with the people of this world. Well, I could probably kill off the Pain receptors in my Tail and therefore new legs since I can´t use them anyways and put a noise cancelling barrier over it while it transforms. Hmm, I could´ve also integrated it into my Tail in the first place, not the first time I upgraded myself. No, wait that won´t work I don´t have a storage Medium if I integrate it into my tail since that´s what has to be stored and converted in the first place.

I really should warm up, otherwise, I might get stupid Ideas again. Let´s see, is there any kind of circuit around here that I can abuse borrow and reprogram it into a heating module for this blanket…

(Giovanni) “You´re up early Miss Jharmind.”

Oh, there´s the guy from yesterday, what´s his name again? Gio- something.

(Mira) “Oh G´morning Gioventi.”

(Giovanni) “It´s Giovanni, but close enough, at least you didn´t try to sit in that Wheelchair again as soon as I came here. I even had to use a Drowzy to get rid of my Nightmares, but that isn´t what I´m here for. No, the reason I´m here is so we can get you a background that others can actually believe.

To be honest I put out a gag order for what happened when you landed here so only about 12 people know that you´re a Human Snake Hybrid. So… any Ideas?”

Ugh… Question and Answer as soon as I wake up and not even time to get heated up in peace.

(Mira) “Ugh, can we do this later? My body temperature is way too low for that right now. I´d need about 3 more hours to be functional in terms of thought process. You´re probably asking yourself why and the answer is simple: I don´t want to repeat what happened yesterday because if I don´t get my body temperature up my mind gets muddled and I start drifting off from the original topic we´re talking about and stop thinking things through completely.”

Giovanni sighs, wow he really has that one down. It´s just the right mix between apathy and disappointment.

(Giovanni) “I´d like to do just that and not lose any more brain cells from your airheaded antics, but your new escorts arrive in about 2 hours and I have to explain to them who they are escorting slash guarding and teaching. Therefore I brought a Fire Type Pokémon with me, Go Growlithe.”

That Poké Ball thingy seems to open just fine, so it´ll open if you have something stored inside, hmm seems like I crushed that part of the Circuit when I cracked mine open. The Light from the Interdimensional Storage suddenly takes shape into something that´s about as high as this Bed and it takes the form of a Dog? looking thing.

(Giovanni) “This here is as I already said, Growlithe. It´s a Fire Type Pokémon and therefore usually have a higher body Temperature than other Pokémon.”

Saying that this Growlithe thing hops into my bed and wow it really is warm the little bugger.

(Mira) “This one will help tremendously. Thanks for that, but can you come inside the blanket Growlithe?”

With an affirmative Bark the Growlithe goes under Miras Blanket and lies itself on her tail.

After ten Minutes Mira takes the Growlithe out of her blanket.

(Mira) “Thanks, buddy, that´s enough I´m now on a manageable temperature.”

Seeing that Growlithe is no longer useful in this situation Giovanni returns it to its Poké Ball.

(Mira) “Right… so, should we make something up for my personal History?”

Giovanni slaps his hand right into his face. Wow, what a sound.

(Giovanni) “That´s what we were talking about before you went off topic and talked about body temperature. So, any Ideas?”

He´s seriously asking me this? Wait I should probably confirm his Idea since he does seem kind of sleep deprived.

(Mira) “Let me get this straight. You want me, a person who´s on this very planet for one day, at least while conscious, to make up a backstory for herself in a place where she doesn´t even know the names of the beasts that roam around here or your Organizations purpose so we can say you found me on one of your activities.”

He´s looking quite surprised. Wow, I must´ve seriously been under working temperature yesterday if even this guy got so confused from my antics that he forgot I´m not originally of this world.

(Giovanni) “How the hell did I forget that? Well, I guess Introductions are in order just not for people this time but for this country, my organization and everything else. Okay, so where do I start… Oh, right the country. We´re here in a country called Kanto it´s basically an Island that´s split into two by a large mountainside. The Neighboring country is called Johto with whom we got along very well over the years.

Every country has eight Gyms were Trainers which we call people who handle Pokémon for a living can test their skill. The Gym leaders have to abide by the rule of one Type of Pokémon only and their teams have to match the strength of the Trainer challenging them. The way they determine this is by the number of Gym badges one has, and eight badges qualify you to take part in a Tournament for glory and fame. Previously we also had an elite four but they got disbanded.

Now as to who I am, or more like who I was before becoming Team Rockets Leader. I´m Giovanni a former Gym Leader of Viridian City, however from time to time I noticed Pokémon near my area going missing, which was sad since I knew them since I was a young boy, but also strange since only the rarer Pokémon disappeared. Then on one day, I noticed one of my own Pokémon was missing. It was my Kangaskhan that I had caught in the Safari Zone which is an area of Kanto were we honour old traditions and don´t try to weaken a Pokémon into joining us, we simply feed it and hope it likes us, or we provoke it and then catch it but I´m getting off track. So my Kangaskhan was missing and I had no idea where it was.

It was so shocking to me that I closed the Viridian Gym down for at least a month. In that month I installed secret cameras on every house that had a rare Pokémon and from that, I finally got a clue from that when my best friends Venusaur got stolen. That´s right, someone had been stealing the rare Pokémon in Viridian City and they used some pretty sick methods which included hitting them on the head from behind with a metal bat so they fall unconscious and then transport them out with a Truck.

A week after that I found the Truck they were using and hid under the Truck with my strongest Gym Pokémon which specialized in the Ground Type and followed them to their hideout. What I found that day changed me forever. They were Breeders. And not just any type of breeders, they were the Black Market kind that kidnapped rare or exotic Pokémon and milked them for as many Eggs as they could before getting rid of them.

That night I killed around twenty People except for their Boss who I buried up to his Neck in the Ground and helped out as many Pokémon as I could. Sadly I was too late to save my Kangaskhan, it apparently died two days before I found their base because it became useless to them. After freeing the stolen Pokémon I tortured their boss to give me information on his Clients because I wanted to see them burn as well. He told me to go fuck myself with a Cacnea. Therefore I poisoned him and left him to his fate whilst turning their base upside down for any clues, turned out they had a bookkeeper which got a hole drilled in his face by my Ace, Nidoking.

After searching through the entire room I found their bankbook and was nearly shocked to death, it turned out that the most famous person in Kanto was their backer, his name is Samuel Oak, Kantos Pokémon Professor. I always wondered where his nearly endless stock of rare Pokémon came from, turned out these guys bred the Perfect Pokémon in terms of Strength and gave those to him, the rest were considered ‘breeding Trash’ and either released or exterminated depending on rarity. The rarer they were the more likely the extermination to keep the price nice and high.

When I returned I suddenly got attacked by 3 Police officers, however I got away by tunneling through the ground. Turns out I missed one of the scumbags and he informed Samuel who quickly pinned the crime on me saying I was dealing in illegally bred Pokémon and killed all those people to cover the Tracks.

After that, I was a wanted man who couldn´t go anywhere except when in disguise. That´s when I remembered my Mother was actually the founder of an Organization called Team Rocket and she was getting old and asked me many times to take over. I always rejected her since I didn´t want to wash my hands in the blood of innocent people, but they left me no choice so I accepted her offer when I met her at that time.

Now Team Rocket at that time wasn´t really a good organization by any means, I´m talking extortion, kidnapping, stealing etc. however I started changing that. Extortion became information gathering on Local Breeders, kidnapping became interrogation of Grunts that were Pokénapping in the area and stealing became liberating of the captured Pokémon and rehabilitation in our bases and stealing from Money drop off Points they used.

At one point I even got some of my old Gym Leader Friends to help me out, however, that was a Trap that this slimy old bastard prepared. One of them said he found a huge base of those breeders which hid under Silph Co´s building, so I sent five of my best Teams in there, only one of them survived and he´s currently one of my executives. He told me what happened, it turned out that one of my old Friends betrayed me and they set a Trap at the Silph Co. Base which killed everyone but him since he was the last to arrive and even then it cost him the Lives of two of his Pokémon just to get away alive.

Since then I never enlisted the help of friends again and founded a place called Rocket Academy for as I like to call them ‘Smokescreen Teams’ basically they´re insanely sturdy in Mental and Physical ability who just cause Mayhem to keep the Law Enforcers from our actual goal to kill every single Illegal Breeder in Kanto and continue to think we´re a bunch of thugs and lowlifes.

Of course Samuel isn´t happy with that and has started making fake Rocket Teams who do the things our people were known for back in the day to keep our Reputation deep in the Mud so we can´t return the Pokémon we freed from those Breeders since they would just capture the Returner Teams. Though we started getting rid of quite a few of them recently.

Well, now you know everything concerning this Place and this Country.”

Wow, I never imagined someone who looks so grumpy would actually have such deep motivations, but he didn´t have to tell me his whole life story, his motivations would´ve been enough. But I guess I can work with this.

(Mira) “Have you gone out on a mission yourself in a while?”

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He looks like he understood what I want to say with it since he now smirks, wow he really does look like a crime boss when he smiles.

(Giovanni) “Good Idea Miss Jharmind and yes indeed I recently destroyed a Breeders Tech Lab where he experimented on ways to get strong Pokémons easier from breeding by drugging the Pokémon with Gene enhancing Drugs and destroying their free will. We can make your backstory the following:

I raided that place with Nelly since we expected a minimal amount of Pokémon hurt and a bunch of dead ones, however, we also found you there who was kidnapped and got her Spine broken so you couldn´t run away.”

Wow, that´s really dark.

(Mira) “Are those breeders really that unscrupulous?”

He looks a bit crestfallen and even has a Tear running down his face.

(Giovanni) “Sadly yes. They try to kill most people who rat them out so either we get there in time and relocate them or we find them with ripped of limbs or burned to death with their entire house. At least in the last year, we cracked open nearly 70% of their bases, we even started working together with another Team from overseas named Team Crypto. They invented a way to repress a Pokémons Memories, however, we lost contact about a year ago, but we can at least seal the Pokémons Memories of the time when they were in those Breeders clutches.”

(Mira) “Okay, I´ll take that Backstory. And by the way how do you usually crack those bases?”

Wow, that evil Smirk again. Well doesn´t look so convincing this time around with the tear still falling down his face. Makes it look vengeful instead of evil.

(Giovanni) “Usually that would be a Multi-Team Job however since that betrayal incident I haven´t usually sent more than one Team out however we have specially formed Teams named ‘Breakers’ who specialize in Interpersonal Combat and Destruction of hidden bases. There are only five teams who deserve to be called Breakers currently. Four of them are spearheaded by my Executives Proton, Archer, Petrel and Arianna. The last Breaker Team is led by me and specializes in the biggest Branches in Kanto or R&D buildings.”

Wow, so I have at least not landed in the hands of someone with evil intentions.

(Giovanni) “Okay, since we cleared the Background Issue do you want to upgrade your Wheelchair? Not that it matters since that Team is pretty used to being tortured. They even survived about 30 explosions at point-blank range.”

Oh, so he didn´t notice. And Holy shit they must be freaking strong to survive Point Blank explosions and multiple times at that.

(Mira) “Uhm, nothing against you Giovanni, but I already finished working on the Wheelchair while you told me your life story. Also, the clock has gone around one and a half times so I guess that means my escort will arrive in half an hour of your time if I´m correct.”

Giovanni looks at the clock astonished like he can´t believe he talked so much.

(Giovanni) “Well okay then, strap yourself in the Wheelchair and follow me to my office I will also give you a Pokémon as your helper.”

I think he´s forgetting something.

(Mira) “Could you also give me a Circuit Board? Doesn´t matter from what since I see nothing here that can resist my Technomancy.”

Saying so I lift my tail and press the button on the Wheelchair with it. My Tail once again turns into red light and flows into the Wheelchair. With me now sitting on it the Light once again forms itself but this time into legs and much faster than last time. Why the hell did I think it was a good idea to make the Cells form themselves instead of just manipulating the red Light to turn into legs with a Color change so my Legs are not green like my Tail? Ah, who cares at least it wasn´t painful this time so I slowly wheel behind Giovanni.

On the way to his office there are a lot of people clad in grey, black or white with a red R on their vest, must stand for Rocket. No wonder that Law Enforcers find them all the time.

(Mira) “Ever thought of changing the design? They´re way too obvious no wonder Law Enforcers come once they appear.”

Giovanni slightly chuckles like he expected me to say that.

(Giovanni) “Well, that´s obvious they´re from the Smokescreen Division or Grunts as the public calls them. They´re meant to be obvious. When we go out on real missions we only take the old Viridian City Arena badge as Identification.”

Smart. Also, how big is this base? We´ve been walking/rolling for around five Minutes of Melrok time since I don´t know how long Minutes are in this place. After another three Minutes, we arrive at his office and I roll over to the left of his Desk until I notice a giant white cat with a round red gem on its forehead.

(Giovanni) “Oh yeah, I should probably introduce you to my Persian. Say hi dear.”

(Persian) “Mreow.”

Following the meowing, it stands up and brushes past my legs while purring like a chainsaw.

(Giovanni) “Oh yeah, you said you needed a circuit Board.” He presses the Intercoms button. “Steven, can you bring me an object that runs on electricity?”

I hear a simple Roger from the Intercom and then a click when I suddenly feel something on my hair and Giovanni is suddenly standing up.

(Giovanni) “No, Persian, you can´t chew on her hair that´s not a toy. Come here and lay right next to me like a good Persian. Sorry about that, she gets quite interested in long strands and because of that nothing here has wires or the wires are embedded into the wall since I don´t want her to fry herself.”

Just fabulous… now I have cat droll in my hair. I also haven´t bathed since I got here, STOP IT MIRA DON´T GET SIDETRACKED AGAIN! Thankfully there´s a knock on the door and after that 3 people and a cat on two legs with something sticking on its head enter.

(Steven) “Here Boss I got you a Fan. Hope that helps. Oh yeah, Team 142 just arrived and I took them here with me, hope that was okay with you.”

Giovanni seems kind of happy while I get handed the Fan and start dismantling it. Finally, some low tier Tech that I won´t feel bad about when breaking it.

(James) “Boss, Team 142 reporting for duty.”

(Giovanni) “Thanks for coming so fast. I was expecting you to take maybe another ten minutes. Did you get a good drift for the Balloon or what? Oh right before I forget, Miss Jharmind these three are Jessie, James and Meowth from the Smokescreen division.”

Urgh, can´t they wait until I´m done here *Crack*, *Crunch* ah finally opened that sucker up?

(Mira) “Not now, need to take pieces of this Circuit Board. [Circuit Override]”

Okay, let´s take this and rearrange it into heating the object it´s attached to… Now just fuse it with the Mana Tendrils for the fusion with this blanket and done.

(James) “What the hell was that boss? And who is she anyways.”

(Giovanni) “I think I should give Miss Jharmind the honour to explain everything to you since it seems like she´s done.”

Oh just great… self-introductions my favourite. God, they don´t look amused but then again, neither do I.

(Mira) “Well hi, you three first of all. Name´s Mira Jharmind and I´m a Technomancer, a subtype of psychics. I got kidnapped around a year ago and got forced to invent new Tech for a Breeder Cartel when your boss broke into the place and killed my supervisor. Well the reason I´m currently not standing up to greet you is cause they wanted to make sure I don´t run away when they leave me alone for the night so they broke my spine on the lower end so I can´t use my legs anymore but still my hands since otherwise, I´d be as useful as tits on a Reptile.

And what I just did to that Fan was my Technomancy. However, currently, I´m not in the mood to explain anything extra regarding that. Oh yeah before I forget, I have a rare genetic defect which turned me cold-blooded, so if I start sleeping for more than 10 hours I´m under my regular Temperature and need to warm up otherwise I´ll probably go into shock and die.

And before you ask, no. I don´t need help bathing and prefer doing that alone. Also is that Cat really one of your Team members and not just some joke where the third one suddenly bursts through the vents to scare me right?”

The two of them turned pretty quiet and even the two-legged cat stares at me. Then it suddenly opens its mouth.

(Meowth) “Now Lady That´s just rude. I´m a perfectly capable member of Team Rocket.”

(Mira) “The fuck? Did I upgrade my translator without noticing or am I still in shock, but did that Cat thingy just now seriously talk?!”

(James) “Yeah, it went to language school. Well not legally, but by listening from a hole in the ceiling.”

Wow. So Pokémon can actually learn their language. This is actually getting interesting.

(James) “Well, I guess it´s our turn now Jessie. Well then guess I´ll start, the name´s James I met Jessie back in School and we joined a gang together after that we went to Rocket Academy and until we got this new Mission we had to chase an eleven-year-old who has a perfectly bred Pikachu. Now that doesn´t sound bad in the first place, however, this bugger has a rare genetic defect from too much inbreeding on the breeders' side and it´ll probably only live for around 10 years if it doesn´t get treated and the only place where we can do that is here. However, as you´d expect we can´t just tell the kid the truth and expect him to believe us since to the public we´re still criminals.”

Now the Woman with the Giant purple Hair mass that could fill the inside of my tail walks forward.

(Jessie) “Greetings Darling, I´m Jessie and as James already said, same school, same gang, then Rocket training School and now last two years Pikachu hunt. However my mother also was a Rocket Member, but that was before the reform happened.”

Giovanni looks kind of stunned at what she just said. This is probably going to get interesting, too bad I don´t have any snacks here. What I wouldn´t give for a few crunchy fairies right now.

(Giovanni) “Your Mother… what was her name?”

(Jessy) “Her name´s Miyamoto, she sent me to an orphanage before being sent on a mission.”

He now looks even more stunned. Damn this is like a Drama.

(Giovanni) “I remember her. My mother was still the boss at that time and she was sent to search for Mew. We still get Messages from her sometime. Should I ask my Mother to call off her Mission?”

Jessie has a really dark look on her face right now. Wow, if looks could kill she´d slaughter an entire town and wear their guts like an evening dress.

(Jessie) “No thanks. She chose Team Rocket over her 5-year-old daughter. She´s dead to me. Since we´re done here what exactly does the escort of Miss Jharmind encompass?”

Phew glad to see we´re back on track, otherwise I would´ve fallen asleep in this thing since it´s surprisingly comfy.

(Giovanni) “Glad you asked Jessie. Okay here´s the deal:

1. Miss Jharmind isn´t from any of the Island Nations she´s from the mainland and her common sense is completely different from ours since some stuff she does is actually illegal here and vice versa.

2. She wants to recover from the kidnapping accident so basically you get a paid vacation with a bit of scientist sitting and she chooses where to go. This also includes a pay raise.

3. She´s going to be working in Rockets R&D Section for a while once the journey you go on is over.

4. You´re going Incognito so get your Civilian gear ready and no using the Hot Air Balloon, we´ve already taken measures to get you to a city from here.

And before I forget Miss Jharmind take this.”

He hands me an already expanded Poké Ball. Based on my observation so far that means it has a Pokémon inside it. Hmm, let´s let it out and see what my goodbye gift is.

The Poké ball opens and reveals a Humanoid Fox looking thing with a Mustache and strangely enough a Spoon. Why the hell does it have a Spoon?

(Giovanni) “That´s Kadabra one of the few Psychic Types we had in stock and Steven and I thought it´d fit you the best from the list we had.”

Suddenly the Kadabra gets covered in a White Light which turns into an Oval and comes out with an additional spoon and a longer Mustache.

(Giovanni) “Wow. That shouldn´t actually happen. Usually, Kadabras should only evolve into an Alakazam if they are traded for a different Pokémon.”

Wait, so Pokémon can also evolve by trading them to someone else? That´s pretty cool I must say, and pretty mean if you like that certain Pokémon but I guess you could always trade it back.

(Giovanni) “Well no use thinking too deep about it, otherwise I might go crazy if she stays here for much longer. Just one more thing before I close this conversation and let you be on your way, here Miss Jharmind take this. It´s a Poké En Credit card to which I will transfer your payment and also your journey budget. It also automatically updates the amount written on the card so you can see how much Poké En you currently have.

Also should anything interest you Tech wise tell Team 142 to contact me I will prepare it here once your journey ends so you can work on it in peace. Okay with that we´re done here, now enjoy your freedom for a year or two Miss Jharmind”

This guy seriously has a heart of gold. And a wallet of Platinum, but what else would one expect from a Leader of a group of former Gangsters. Let´s hope they have more interesting stuff like those Pokéballs, if not I´ll invent my own. Huhuhuhu this world will be so much fun, even if I had to be betrayed and get my research and achievement stolen by that bastard Jacko here I am more powerful than ever before.

(Mira) “Thanks, Giovanni. And I think once I return It´d be nice if you called me Mira instead. Well then new comrades, Let´s go! Adventure awaits.”

Following Mira's enthusiastic Wheeling out of Giovanni's office, the newly evolved Alakazam follows her first since she now owns his Pokéball, followed by James, Jessie and finally Meowth who´s trying to flirt with Giovanni's Persian.

Once outside of his office Mira notices something of importance.

(Mira) “Uhm guys? Where is that vehicle Giovanni mentioned?”

Both of them look at her shocked.

(James) “You mean… you didn´t ask him where it is in the first place?”

Mira now starts to scratch the side of her head whilst looking embarrassed.

(Mira) “Uhm… Oops?”

Jessie in response to that hits her face with her hand, James shakes his head and Meowth starts walking towards Steven.

(Meowth) “Hey Steven, sorry to bother you, but we´re now this Airheads Escort and the boss said a Vehicle was prepared. Where is that located so we can get there once Jessie and James get their Civilian Clothes?”

Steven looks through his records and then stands up.

(Steven) “I already prepared the Casual Clothes. 3 Sets for each of you, easily washable variant. Also prepared Backpacks and every other necessity for Traveling on foot, car or public transport. Also, I´m going to bring you to Vehicle bay 5 since I currently have nothing better to do.”

(Meowth) “Thanks, Steven, otherwise we´d probably have to search each vehicle bay by ourselves.”

Steven stands up and leads our newly formed group towards vehicle Bay 5 where their ride towards Fuchsia City lies in wait for them.