Upon hearing the loud bang of the wall and door exploding as well as the corresponding rubble and the shout of Hana, Anthony's mom, the 2 Pokemons immediately ran towards their direction with 'MIIiii!" and 'ZUUUU!' sound. Obviously, the two Pokemons have been suppressing their fear for quite some time now. Anthony was also doing such a thing; thus, in order to properly convey his 'childishness', he grabbed the panting Mimikyu and cradled it like a child before running towards the hall.
Surely enough, he saw baby and mama Kangaskhan as well as his mom. The two Pokemons of his, even Miltank, that's not so close with Hana, jumped and hugged Anthony's mom, who cradled the supposed heavy Miltank with one hand before running towards Anthony.
_That's ridiculous, that's a fucking cow..._
Anthony said before being lifted up and hugged by Baby Kangaskhan that's also crying like Anthony's two Pokemons, and as he raised Mimikyu, who wasn't able to phase out temporarily to not be implicated by the bear hug of Baby Kangaskhan, Anthony couldn't help but have a deep moment of realization.
_Man, in the end I got abducted without a chance of resisting, huh..._
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After a while of quite an emotional reunion, Anthony was finally cradled by his mother, who seemed to be unaffected by the fact that she had just lifted and held a Miltank with her one hand. Instead, she lifted up Anthony too and sat down in front of the shackled Team Rocket grunts that seemed to be so weak against Supersonic, as they were still not awake, before making Anthony recount everything that happened as if to soothe him by making him tell everything that happened.
"How did you notice that there's something wrong with the unit?"
Hana asked, making Anthony shake his head before answering. At this moment, the Mimikyu is already being tended by Mama Kangaskhan.
"In fact, I didn't notice anything wrong until one of the vents suddenly exploded with a Geodude and a Team Rocket grunt. On the one hand, I'm too focused on the condition of Miltank, which is both hurt and sad, as well as Zubat, which is sad too, and on the other hand, it's normal to be in the hospital as much as possible. It's a good thing that my Pokemons are good at sensing danger, or else the 'as long as they're not dead' principle that's said to me by Elite 4 Agatha will be applied to you and to me."
Hana nodded at this, not one bit disappointed at this; Anthony is just a child, after all.
"How did you get out of the encirclement of the other Rocket grunts that surprised and attacked Mimikyu?"
Instead, Hana continued to ask her son a question while stroking his back gently. It was obvious to Anthony that Hana was trying to ease up his tough nerves by making him vent all of what he did to her.
"It's a run-of-the-mill strategy that relied mostly on the talent of Miltank in battle and natural sense, as well as Zubat's sociability to sense the intent of Miltank and mine. I made Miltank use Rollout and Bide into the sink to destroy the water pipe system and load Bide to '1', after that, to deceive them that I want to use the water to amplify the electric current, I aimed a tasing gun into Miltank that's already about to get attacked by Dark pulses from a Houndoom and an Umbreon before discarding it and cover my ears and commanding Zubat that hid above our head to use Supersonic. The effect made all grunts faint while the two Pokemons were dazed, they then were finished off by the 'Bide Laser' of Miltank in full power."
Anthony said in one breath before he once again silently looked at his mom, who was looking at him with watery eyes. She seemed to be worried as she hugged her son tighter.
"Are you scared?"
For a moment, Anthony wasn't able to answer. In a way, he is scared, but not in the way that Hana thinks; he was scared because he doesn't know how the brains of Giovanni and Team Rocket members in general work, besides making himself firmly abide by the principle of always overestimating your enemy. Anthony is even relieved when he sees that the Team Rocket grunts are just using taser guns and not real ones, though real ones are already replaced by Pokemons in terms of defense, he doesn't know anything about the craziness of the mafia boss Giovanni.
Soon, however, he felt like it didn't feel bad to be comforted for once; in any case, Hana is his mother, and Anthony is her son. Thus, Anthony snuggled himself into the shoulder of his mom and nodded slightly, which made Hana hug her son tighter. After all, while she believes in the principle of learning by doing, she's still a parent.
The mother and son just hugged like that before being noticed by Mama Kangaskhan, who used her big pouch to put Baby Kangaskhan, Zubat, and Miltank to comfort them. The 4 Pokemons looked at each other before also going towards the mother and child and giving a hug.
Anthony doesn't feel like this feeling is something so bad, despite his mental age; humans are social animals after all. Though he should probably get out of the embrace of a 76 kg Miltank, he raised his head and looked at his mom and whispered.
"Mom, while we're fine, there are interns here and their Pokemons that are probably silenced temporarily to hide this operation; we have to help them."
Anthony calculated that 5 sets of matches might have already been over, including their battle with Mary, who luckily went dashing to the bathroom and is probably now with her dad, and the 30-minute break is now in effect before the remaining 5 sets of interns are to battle.
Thus, he believed that at least 8 additional interns are inside the medical unit that's run over by Team Rocket double agents, and more than 16 Pokemons that are probably caught without their consent are now inside Poké Balls. There is also the problem of catching the main organizer of this secret base of Team Rocket, but I felt like that should not be his or his mom's problem.
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In the medical unit of the Pokémon Research Laboratory of the Kanto Region, a place that's already been partly compromised by Team Rocket, in its security camera room, is a woman with red hair and eyes wearing a white security uniform with a Pokeball-themed badge in her right breast. She looked at the recording that let her confirm that a child just outsmarted a bunch of adults ganging up on him, no less with a very cheap misdirection trick.
_Tsk, the target designated by the boss should have been caught if not for the fact that he and his Pokemons have a very good tacit understanding! It's like they were two peas in a pod... not to mention we're too focused on Hana Dover and didn't consider that his son would be able to make the most concise two commands possible to dispel his predicament... as expected of the son of the two person that made us run for our money for so long..._
With this, the powerhouses that would be considered the main force, Hana and Elite 4 Agatha, are already aware of the whole situation, not only in the Lab of Prof. Oak but also of the Interpol.
Specifically, these two monsters already knew that the communication department of Interpol was compromised. This made the Team Rocket base leader sigh, as these two bases are the only ones remaining inside the Kanto region core, meaning they would be without eyes and clout in the region, making them something like a fruit free for the taking of the Pokémon League. All because the leader of Team Rocket, Giovanni, wanted to know why Ben Dover had retired.
_It's a good thing that Ben and Hana Dover will not participate in the purge of Team Rocket bases in different region given that we don't do anything to their son or their business... which is a clause that's quite shaky right now, in any case we only have to worry about the Elite 4, Champion Blue and the gym leaders and well as the new bane of our existence, Red..._
The security room is in the backside of the medical unit, and the windows it has are directly facing a part of the Viridian forest that's connected to the Viridian forest's sparsely populated area making it a good place for escaping. The security personnel named Janna didn't take anything like the Poké Balls of the Pokemons that were about to be stolen with her, this is because she had to run as fast as possible and make her identity disappear.
Yes, the security personnel identify as well as Team Rocket member one.
_I already erased all of my traces in my apartment and here... Team Rocket is already on the verge of collapsing because of this operation failing, Team Rocket doesn't know why Ben Dover retired or if he really is retired or is just tasked to fake it for a one fell swoop of all the bases of Team Rocket. I have to get out of here to not get implicated in all this mess._
Janna is not a loyal person to stick to the bitter end, nor is she upright enough to stick to the bitter end because of all the sins she committed. For Janna, she can bear the sins without atoning for all the hell of it as long as she's alive.
Thus, after some destruction of the evidence that can be connected to her, she opened the window and jumped down, landing quite smoothly. So smooth in fact that if she didn't suddenly feel a chill run down her back as her body froze, seemingly sensing an inescapable predator, she would've already escaped, becoming free from the constraints of Team Rocket.
"By the power vested in me by my position as part of Elite 4, I, Agatha, am obliged to ask you to properly give up and divulge all information you knew about this operation and Team Rocket."
The voice is hoarse, coming from an aged, yet still feared member of the Elite 4, making Janna shudder in fear. Her presence of mind seemed to kick in as she said:
"I... I give up! I... I will cooperate!"
Janna shouted as she put her hands up and slowly turned around to where Agatha was located. However, her eyes again froze as she saw that the iconic staff with the Pokeball of Gengar was being held upside down by the elderly Elite 4: instead of the handle, Agatha of the Elite 4 was using the upper side of the tip as a handle while she made the handle bounce around her other hand.
Furthermore, Janna saw the smile of the Elite 4 that already the letter V, causing her placid gums and teeth that started to rot due to her advanced age to show themselves, not only that, the stretched out skin and seemingly darkened sclera of Agatha sent fear and despair to the very soul of Janna.
The Elite 4 opened her smiling mouth.
"Aww man, you don't want to cooperate? Then I have no c̶̢̨̟͍̘̈́̿̂͋̽̾̍̈͘͜͜͝h̸̨̞͚͇̫͕̤͇̐̔̐͗̎͐̀͝ô̶͉̟͆̊͌į̴̡̢̳̳̠͇̥̞̜͇̳͉̮̈̔̀̔͌c̷̝̦̖̯̗̫̪͓̽̓͐̏̉̽͑̀̏͑̄̋̕͠Ę̸̱́̽͌̏͛̑̏͛͛͊̂͜ͅ ̷̡̰̩̼͈͇͇̭͋͋͑́́͒͊̇̅̐̉͊͘͝͠B̵̛̻͕̻̜̭̩̲̙͖̐̊̌͆Ụ̴̏̌T̴̢͉̲̄̈̋̓̐͜ ̴̧̦̤̪̟̱͂͐͋͐̒̽Ţ̷̮̮͙̩̰̹̻͕̾͑̐̈͘͘͠Ō̵̖̺̘ ̵̡̢̡͖͉̦̦̣̙̜̯̩̜̰͊̎͊̽̎͆́̃̑͝ͅÛ̶̙͆̉̏̃̇̈͌̏͠S̸͖̔͛͋̑̈́̀̓̾͘Ȩ̴̛̼͍̫̺̟̮̹̙̰̞̣̑̈́̈́̂̍͆ ̷̧̰̬͍͕̺̘́̉̅͋̿̔̏̂̾͌͗́̑̂M̶̢̨̢̛̗̞̠̖̫͔̑̽̍̑̽̏̈̄̾͠Ơ̷̧̢̭̺͎̥̻̲͔̫͊̈́̋̆͌͠Ȑ̸͙͓͇͓̣͍̭͕̓̈Ȩ̸̯̲̤̗͙͓̪̞͙͊͐̑ ̵̧̰̖̲̙͇̥̦̹̙̞͈̻̘͔̑̐̊͛͘̚F̸̗̬̫̺̭̳̯͕͔͂̌̍͆̌̊̌̓̂͝͝Ǫ̷̙̫̺̩̲͓̰̗͉̙̝̮̈́̈́̍̈́̌͌͊̂̅͆́̚̚͠͝R̵̢̛͎̥͉̗͓̳̝͖̰̼̻̣̫̐́̀̇͘͜C̵̘͖̻͎͘Ȩ̴̧̣̱͔̟͇͕̪̰̣͒́̓F̴̢̧̬̯̥̞͚̤̥͔̿̍̅́̋́͊͋̇͒̍̐̈́͘͜͜͜͠ͅṴ̴̢̥̥̤͕̮̖͕͔͙͇͌͋͌̃̃̈̾̊́͂͘͜L̶̦̟̫̭͎̓̾͋̓̎̚ ̷̛̦͚̙̓̓̓̍̒̉͌́̆͝͝͠M̵̺̘̠̖̠͉̝̦̻͎̮̙̜̅̉̑̒́̀̿̓̾̕͘͘͠E̷͉̩͇̩̼͎̻̰̦̜̠̫̗͌͑̎̈́̀̑̐͗̑̊̊̕̚À̸̢̛͎͈̹̥̤̺̣͎̞̹̬̟̔̋ͅN̷̨̖̜̠͈̪͙̦̩̩͂͐̇̈́̕͜ͅS̷̰̣̜̮̮̫͍͈̹̼̃̂̈́́̈́̊̔̉͐̀̕͘ ̵̢͓̭̜͚̯̉͋̋͑͐͒̆͠Ț̸̨̬̩̣̣̺̬̲͈̘̐̈́͆̀̿̓̐̒̈͊̍͝͠ͅO̶̰͊́͒̀̒̆͋͊̕͘͘ ̵͎̥̣̟͈̓̀́̿͆͗̍S̴̩̦͖̃̂̄̏̍͒̉̉́͒̀̑̀͝U̷͉͈̺̠͓̤̟͚̫̳͗̐̋͊̄̃̈́͗͜͠ͅB̶̢̼̮̔̈́͌̑̌͐͠͠D̶̡̛̛̗̜͕̞̗̰͚̱͉̦̳̠̯͆̏͗̆̎̍͊̆͊͒̾̚͘Ú̵̼͑́̓̀̇̑̄̒̈̾̐̉̚͝E̶͚̞̠̱̩̓̈́͒͑̇̍̍̿̾̔͜͝͝͠͝ ̵̢̢̧̬̲̮̪͉̹̮̜̊̽̐̀̓͆̑͊̚A̷̡̟̺͚̪̪̰̖̜̠͛̀͆͒͒̏̿͌̆̕͜ͅN̷̩͎̰̰̬̞̩̦̰͐͐́̐̿̕͝D̷̛̞̣̽͑̈́͋̈́̈́̃̔̉̎͆̑ ̸͎̈̑̓͊̀͑̀̀̿͊͑M̷̮͚̬̅͋͑̅́́A̷̧̡̢͖̟̼̲̜̖̮͙̺̾͒̏͑͑̇͑̐̄̽͑̉͜͝͝ͅĶ̴̣̮̝̳̘̹̟͚͙̀͆͛̀͊̏͑̋̽́̐̌̃̈́̒͜E̶͖̝̰̤͔̟̩͔̊̇͐̉́̈́ ̶̨̛̮̘͚͆͐͊̓͆̆̈́̾̂͝Y̵̢̮͇̹̲̯̪̰̱̔̽̾̄͊̈́͂͂͂̍̕̚͝Õ̵̙̙̺̗̒̆̐̓̅̿͠Ȗ̵̡̧͎̤̻̹̙̠̠̞̪̼̯̣̎ ̵̡̨̧̢̗̹̖̤̘͎͚͇́̿̈̐̍́́̏̏̾̿̒̊̕ͅC̸̳͓͖̘̮̟̼͎̥͚͇̙̖͉̊́̇͗̊́̽̓̿̽̂̈́̕͜͝͝O̷̢̡̺̺̦̮͇̞̍͋̎́̂́̕N̸̡̠͚͇̚F̶̺̪̝̿͊͛̑́̉͛͊̐̀̂̂̆E̷̢͉̞̠̮͎̼̪̻͙͉͖̠̾̄̚͜S̴̡͇̹̻͉̹̦̞͖̫̝̫̲̙̲̃̋̓̀̑̐͊̕S̴̮̤̱̾̑̂!̸̢̫͓̯̦̬̺̦̣͈͚̜̺̂͘͜͜!̷̡͎͈͚̟̲̥̙͍͉͈͚̍̊̄̒͒͆̀͑͘͘!̴̛͇͉̿̇̽͊̌͗͠!̸̛̙͊̿͐͗̆̃͝!̵̨̭͎̥̠̣͍̬͔͚̪̬̺͖̩͛̔̇̉͘!̷̺̰̳̘̖̻̘̭͉̼̗̮͊̾̑̔̑̄̽̈́́̊͠!̸̛̤̘̠̅̌̑̒̕̚"
(Aww man, you don't want to cooperate? Then I have no choicE BUT TO USE MORE FORCEFUL MEANS TO SUBDUE YOU AND MAKE YOU CONFESS!!!!!)
At this moment, Janna is unable to run as her pants got stained by the urine that unknowingly leaked out of her crotch. For some reason, as if an epiphany, Janna immediately understood the maxim of Elite 4 Agatha, or perhaps even all Elite 4 members of any region.
Everything is fine, as long as no one is dead.
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Anthony waited outside the security room of the medical unit in puzzlement as to why he was not allowed to enter the room, and her mom needed to fetch the briefcases with the Poké Balls of the Pokemons that were about to be stolen. In any case, Anthony obliged as they were able to free all nurses and doctors inside the place, as well as the interns. Mary also came and asked if he was okay before going to Pikachu. Unfortunately, it was also in a Poké Ball, so they both waited there.
The two silently waited for Anthony's mom, and soon, Anthony's mom went out of the room with 2 briefcases before saying.
"Put out all Pokemons here and destroy their Poke Balls."
Anthony and Mary nodded as they grabbed briefcases.
After Hana instructed the two children to release the almost stolen Pokemons, she walked down the stairs and into the door outside the medical unit and looked at the Murkrow that was circling the medical unit before putting her index finger and thumb to her mouth and blowing a sharp whistle.
This is a sign that the crisis has been averted.