Chapter 3: Chapter 3: An Unexpected Event
Three days later, by night fall-
"Gardevoir, one last time."
Gardevoir swung her arms in front of her in a pattern similar to a crescent facing downwards, along the path, 5 small balls the size of a ping pong ball were created.
After a few seconds, the balls suddenly started to expand, up until the size of a football.
Gardevoir then thrusted her arm forwards, the shadowballs moving towards at a different speed, which then struck the training dummy one by one.
After the dust cloud created by the attack settled down, the training dummy was revealed. It had bits and pieces missing all over it as a proof of Gardevoir's training.
"That about sums it up, good job Gardevoir." William was about to grab his backpack and leave.
(Wait, I still want to try one more thing.) Gardevoir stared at the training dummy.
"Alright, what should I help with?" William placed down his backpack, and turned towards Gardevoir.
(Help me look for possible errors.) Just as Gardevoir finished her sentence, she dashed sideways with her feet off the ground and her hands raised towards the training dummy.
Small shadowballs were sent out in her trajectory, targeting the training dummy. As the shadowballs were flying towards their target, they started growing larger. When they finally arrived at the target, they were already as big as a football.
As Gardevoir stopped her momentum, the shadowballs collided with the training dummy, finally snapping it off its supporting frame.
After all of this, Gardevoir is panting slightly from over usage of energy. After recovering slightly, she turned towards William.
Clapping sounds interrupted William before he could even say anything. Both William and Gardevoir turned towards the origin of the sound.
"Wow, what a unique pokemon!" A man expressed with a smile on his face, while slowly walking towards the two.
"You are?"
"Team Rocket special recruiter Jason, it's both my pleasure and yours for me to serve you." Jason said as he took off his cap and bowed slightly in a polite manner.
"Team Rocket...?" William's eyes narrowed slowly. "What business do you have with me?"
Gardevoir went beside William and put up a stance, her body sideways, left arm slightly bent inwards in front of her chest, and upper right arm cocked outwards with her lower right arm and hand facing towards Jason.
"As you may already know from my intro, I recruit new blood for Team Rocket. And you! My dear, seems like a good candidate."
"And why should I join Team Rocket?"
"Because!" Jason suddenly stretched 3 fingers. "Firstly! If your pokemon wasn't a Gardevoir, what might've happened is it gets stolen by us instead."
"And how does it ma..." before William could finish his question, he got interrupted again.
"Shhh... stay calm young man. Let me finish first." He covered his lips with his fingers after he said that.
"Secondly! Do you really think we'd let someone with decent talent stay on the league's side if possible?" He then looked around, signalling that there is no one around the training ground.
"Lastly! Its of course because I'm the one serving you!"
The whole world seemed to stop at the moment Jason gave his final reason. Until, William finally spoke.
"Let me guess, if I joined at this moment, and was thinking of betraying someday, then my information would be sent to the league or Team Rocket would base on that information and deal with me."
"Correct! I'm glad there's someone with a brain around here..." Jason sound relieved. "You know, the last time I met someone a brain was about 30 days ago!"
"Just think of the frustration! Arg!!!" He started grabbing his own head firmly, shaking in anger. "And there's freaking 10 candidates in within this period!!!"
(His emotion is extremely unstable. I suggest avoiding him, also, connection is established.) Gardevoir gave her warnings to William.
(Got it.) William glanced at Gardevoir.
"Oh my, sorry, where's my manners?" Jason suddenly stopped, as if he switched personalities. With only the messy hair as evidence of him being the same person.
"Anyways, I believe it's necessary for me to tell you what's special about having me recruiting you and going the normal way through recruiting."
"Honchkrow!" Jason suddenly shouted.
A black bird suddenly flew towards William from his back at a immense speed from an angle that William couldn't see.
The honchkrow then struck William by his neck, cutting a shallow and narrow wound on his neck.
By the time William and Gardevoir was able to react, the damage was already done, and the honchkrow disappearing in mid air.
A necklace then suddenly appeared in Gardevoir's right hand. Her eyes glowing bright blue and 3 lines representing the x y and z coordinate made by dim blue energy appeared on her left hand.
A cube suddenly appeared within that coordinate, responded by a dim light blue rectangle that had walls and ceiling appearing on the field, covering both William and Jason.
Suddenly, the necklace started to seemingly emit a visible gas, which is then absorbed by Gardevoir. Which in turn made her eyes grow even brighter.
A bright blue energy bulb then transformed into the shape of a knife, using the necklace as its handle.
Gardevoir suddenly disappeared, reappearing behind Jason, with her knife placed in front of Jason's neck.
Jason immediately headbutted Gardevoir by first leaning his head slightly to gain momentum, then slamming it into Gardevoir. In the meantime, his right arm raised to grab Gardevoir's right arm.
While Gardevoir was stunned from the headbutt, Jason grabbed Gardevoir's right arm to prevent the knife from stabbing into him, his left arm raised and by using his armpit, he managed to lock Gardevoir by her neck and jumped backwards, knocking the both of them over.
As Gardevoir recovered her senses, she teleported next to William the moment they landed. The both of them downed but neither side suffering huge injuries.
"Nice effort, your pokemon is more suited to Team Rocket than you ya know." Jason said as he stood up, with his each of hands placed on a different pokeball in his waist.
William helped Gardevoir up, when she got up, her eyes started to show signs of missing emotion, as though all the anger disappeared, leaving behind only absolute ration thinking.
Suddenly, Gardevoir swiped her right arm, which created a space distortion, connecting it to a relative space right beside to Jason. As light passed through the space distortion, a weird phenomenon seemed to be created, where if you looked towards the right from Gardevoir's point of view, you could see something like a picture of a different place held in mid air.
Honchkrow suddenly appeared flying laterally upwards right next to Jason, tightly evading Jason's head. As soon as it gained back momentum from its sudden change of direction, it turned invisible again.
(Stop it, we don't necessarily need to win.)
"I surrender." William shouted.
"Nicely done! That was a test for your pokemon's strength and trainer's situation analysis ability, you passed with flying colours!" Jason took his hands off the pokeballs.
As Honchkrow landed on Jason's shoulder, signalling the battle was over, Gardevoir reverted her state, the necklace stopped emitting energy and signs of emotion reappeared inside her.
(Sorry, I failed us both.) Gardevoir apologised.
(It was also my bad, I was a burden in the fight.)
"Now, as someone that joined as my recruit, you are given a special authority. You are a field agent, Team Rocket won't care about your daily actions, and all you have to do is reply when Team Rocket calls for you, bonuses will be given depending on your performance."
"That's all? I thought Team Rocket has a strict agent filtration?" William can't help but wonder.
"Of course! But that's an exception for recruits under me. I do have to take responsibility if something does happen though, but I believe you have a functioning brain right?" Jason smiled slyly towards William.
"Of course."
"Great! Now, Team Rocket has a rule that states field agents must work in a trio group, consisting of a pokemon and 2 agents. But regarding your situation, I believe it would be best if you just let Gardevoir be the pokemon in that group, since that would save a lot of trouble for me. Oh right, give me a min." Jason grabbed his cell phone from his pocket and called someone.
In the meanwhile, William and Gardevoir were discussing about something.
(Can we conceal our identities if we have to work under Team Rocket?)
(I'd say no, but it's only by the files, I can still use a mask when in operations.)
(And me? Do I use the blue pills instead then?)
(Yes, and maybe I could use a hooded uniform instead?)
"Done." Jason interrupted the two.
"What is your name anyway?" Jason finally asked.
"Real name, or Team Rocket name?" William asked, as there's a different in these two.
"Oh?" Jason chuckled, before he continued, "Team Rocket name, William."
William's pupils shrunk a little hearing Jason calling out his name, but he still managed to give out a name.
"Limbo."
"Alright, agent Limbo, you have 10 days to travel to Pewter City to meet your partner. Your partner is also a recruit of mine, I'm sure you'll love having her as your partner! Your confirmation code is Chimera, as that's her Team Rocket name." Jason said as he put away his phone.
"Oh, last thing. Here's a tip for you." Jason walked away, leaving behind echoes of his voice. "What something seems may not be exactly what it is."
After William and Gardevoir watched Jason away, had to decide what to do.
(Are we really joining Team Rocket?)
(I'm afraid so, otherwise, we'd have big troubles seeing as how he knew my name. I fear he might have my other informations as well.)
(Understood, And things might not be as bad as we believe, he did say we are field agents, and that might mean that we don't have to openly use the Team Rocket status and we're still able to use our normal trainer status in normal times.)
(You're right on this one, but we still have a partner to deal with, I'm guessing we have to find her out?)
(And possibly quite hard as well.)
(Judging from the tip he gave me, it might mean that we have to use the tip to find her?)
(The chances are high.)
(Still, we'd have to go to Pewter City no matter what then. Do we still have time for the Celadon Gym?)
(I'm fear not, we might even have to travel in night to get there in time.)
(Then lets have a good night's sleep. We need the energy to move.)
As William and Gardevoir decided on their next move, they went back into the Pokemon Centre and finally enjoyed their well deserved rest.
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