Chapter 3: The Dark Future Foreseen Part II

AN: Well. it has been some time since last Chapter, so I figured that this would be a perfect time to update. I've been especially busy the last two weeks so I wasn't able to finish Chapter 3. Well, anyways here we are with Chapter 3 and we're finally nearing the end of Part 0(The beginning/Black City arc!)

Aside from that, a Guest review asked me a good pending question. When I first planned out this fanfic, I planned to only have Bianca and maybe Nancy(She might just end up being a friend of Ash and Hilda) be Hilda's personal friends and rivals, but the Guest suggested having Rosa be Hilda's rival and love competition for Ash. I have taken this into consideration, but I'm wondering what Pokemon do you want her to get? She is going to have a Snivy, but I'm curious as to what Pokemon you would like to see Rosa using. I may not use all of them, but you definitely will see me using most of your suggested Pokemon for Rosa.

Also, to those who are curious on whether or not Nate will be appearing, he will as Rosa's main love interest later on and as a member of the International Police and as Ash's rival(Like the manga.) and he'll have an Oshawott and some other Pokemon I have planned out for him, but you're welcome to suggest new ideas on what Pokemon to give him.

Anyhow, be sure to let me know what you think and to suggest new Pokemon for Nate and Rosa. Hope you enjoy this chapter!

Human Speech - "Hi"

Aura/Pokemon Speak - "Hi"

Proton let out a sigh as he examined the papers set out in front of him. He was going to have a very interesting evening if his boss agreed to the proposal right in front of him. For the sake of it, he simply hoped that his boss would disagree with the proposal, but knowing his boss, he would actually be fool enough to accept the offer from the proposal. He would do anything to "improve the strength of Team Rocket."

Proton leaned back in his chair as his left eye twitched. How long was it going to take him to respond? In all honesty he had much better things to do right now.

Laughter echoed throughout the room. "Never would have expected someone like you to get angry, Proton. You always were the calmest out of all of us."

At that moment, Proton froze in his chair as an expression of horror was written on his face. The voice he had heard belonged to one who had the exact same amount power as his boss. That voice was the one thing that he feared the most, the kind that could give him nightmares that would forever haunt him. But most of all, that voice belonged to someone who was able to read others like a book. And that someone happened to be Tobias, one of Team Rocket's Chosen Executive.

"T-Tobias…," Proton stuttered, unable to move.

The long haired Rocket smiled a sickly smile at Proton. "I believe that you forgot the proper way to address me? Are you perhaps getting sloppy?"

Proton took a deep breath before speaking. "Sir, forgive me. I am not getting sloppy. I am just impatient. I could be doing other things to benefit Team Rocket right now, yet the boss has insisted that I wait instead of doing something productive."

Tobias looked down upon Proton. "Is that so? Well, since the boss told me that he was 'doing something productive,' he gave me permission to act as his voice when regarding issues such as the proposal here."

Proton glanced at the papers in front of him. "…I see. What does he have to say about the proposal sir?"

"The boss agrees to the proposal," replied Tobias as he narrowed his eyes, trying to carefully observe the executive's reaction.

Proton frowned. "Why would he? Isn't it clear that this group or organization only wants to team up with us in Unova, so they can take advantage of us?"

Tobias laughed, his laughter becoming louder and louder. This soon came to halt once Proton shot Tobias a questioning look? At first glance of Proton's expression, he chuckled and his face darkened.

"I'm sorry. Did you just say…," Tobias trailed off, his eyes crucially examining Proton's body language and expression. "Did you just say that the boss and the rest of the organization might get taken advantage of? Do you honestly believe that?"

Proton gulped and shook his head as beads of sweat formed on his forehead. "No I didn't."

Tobias grabbed the green haired executive from behind the neck and slammed the man's face onto the papers. Upon, looking at Proton horrific expression, Tobias sneered, his hand on one of his Rocket balls. "Do you honestly believe that the boss wouldn't agree to a proposal without getting anything out of it?"

"N-No," stuttered the mint green haired man.

"Oh, but you did, grinned Tobias evilly. You even admitted it yourself. But now you go back on your opinion and gave up. I never would have guessed how weak willed one of the cruelest members of Team Rocket actually is.

"Please stop," pleaded Proton with fear creeping into his voice.

"Do you know what Team Rocket does to the weak willed Proton?," asked Tobias.

"Please…"

"We dispose of the weak and feed off of them, boasted Tobias. It is the true way to become strong."

"Have mercy…"

"Pathetic, sneered Tobias. I'll do you a favor and end your pitiful existence."

"No…"

Tobias smiled and yanked one of the Rocket balls off his belt and threw it into the air. Unlike a regular pokeball's bright light, the Rocket ball released a burst of dark and shadowy energy that boomed around the room. From the darkness a black demonic and ghost like figure with blue eyes and white smoke streaming out of it's head appeared. one could also see a pair of flat slender arms and a bright shade of red in the shape of an ellipse right before the figure's head appeared.

Proton took a step back. While, he didn't know what the Pokemon was, he was scared regardless. The ghost like figure in front of him emanated a powerful and dark aura that promised one thing: Pain.

The executive began to sweat. He was known as one of the cruelest Rockets to ever exist. He was cruel and hateful towards Pokemon and tortured them in any way possible. Furthermore, he even did some of the jobs that Giovanni himself said were very unmoral by his standards. In other words, he was a sadist. He was the one that caused great pain to others. He enjoyed inflicting pain. But, if there was one thing that he hated, it was feeling pain. Oh how he hated feeling as if his entire body was on fire. He would give anything to make sure that he never ever experienced pain. He would even make a deal with Giratina or also known as the devil.

"Darkrai use Dark Void," commanded Tobias.

"Yes Master," the death angel like Pokemon laughed evilly and threw a black sphere with a purplish outline that radiated an evil aura at Proton.

The sphere hit Proton and did… nothing?

The executive blinked. "Was that supposed to do something?"

Tobias smiled and walked away with his Darkrai, trailing not far behind. "Let this be a lesson to you Proton, that Team Rocket has no sympathy for the weak willed and for those who question their superiors." Tobias closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Despite being feared in Team Rocket for his mercilessness, there were still some things that even scared him to an extent. To be more specific, it was what he was going to do next. "Darkrai… echo his pain."

Darkrai let out a boom of insane laughter before flicking his fingers.

Within a split second, Proton let out an inhumane scream before flailing rapidly like a fish without Oxygen and his eyes rolled into the back of his head, and his eyes slammed shut.

"Proton, I know that you can hear me, sneered Tobias. Just be glad that you happened to be executive material or executive material in the boss's opinion. Be glad that this is only a nightmare. Be glad that you managed to blend in with the strong… weakling."

Tobias laughed and returned his Darkrai back to his Rocket Ball.

Ash sighed and examined his receipt. "This is going to put a dent in my account. Isn't it?"

The Riolu laughed and fell off the chair, resulting in him landing right next to Ash. To this, Ash flash a look of annoyance and threw the blue jackal like pokemon a look that promised pain.

Riolu winced in discomfort. "Sorry about that… it's just that I find it really funny that you walked into a a very high end restaurant and expected a small bill."

"Yeah, but this is the Pokemon Center's restaurant. "It's not supposed to be expensive!"

The laughter that Riolu stopped, slowly began to revive starting from a small chuckle to a loud laugh.

Ash's eye twitched in annoyance. "Pikachu use Thunderbolt. Now."

In response Pikachu shook his head and broke out into fits of laughter. "Sorry Ash, but I'm going to have to agree with Riolu on this one. This just happens to be one of those classic Ash moments."

Ash sighed and stood up. "Ever since I was young, I've always wondered why people couldn't understand Pokemon. But now I see that there is a very good reason."

Pikachu and Riolu simply kept on laughing madly.

Ash sighed again. "Whatever. Now that we've had lunch, let's go pick up the other three members of our team."

Pikachu broke his spell of laughter and nodded with Riolu following second. "Sure. Why not?"

"Alright then, Ash began and then paused to pick up his backpack. Let's go check on our friends!"

Pikachu and Riolu eagerly nodded and jumped off of their seats. Then they began to trail behind Ash with excitement shown in their faces.

Ash's smiled to himself as he tried to contain his excitement. Ever since four months ago, he had been training himself and his Pokemon to the extreme. Four months ago, Ash realized that if he were going to continue on the path to becoming a Pokemon Master, then he would have to take things more seriously and learn how to be more independent. In the past, he had been too reliant on his friends when it came to planning his team of Pokemon during gym or league battles, setting up camp, and many other things.

The Ash that would have been overly reliant on his friends wasn't him anymore. He had matured. He could take care of himself now.

Ash and his two partners came to halt once they had approached Nurse Joy's counter. Normally, he wouldn't have stopped so suddenly. Normally, he would simply rush over to the counter and request his other Pokemon, but something had gotten his attention this time. That very something happened to be a very familiar person. The very same person happened to be the exact same person that he had bumped into on the cruise that he had taken to Black City.

"Hugh…," Ash muttered.

Hugh shot him a look of annoyance and rolled his eyes as he gratefully accepted three pokeballs from Nurse Joy. Then after muttering a 'thank you' to Nurse Joy, he spun around and proceeded to head to the exit.

Well. Hugh certainly would have left, only if Ash hadn't stopped him at that moment.

"Hugh wait," Ash called.

The spiky haired boy muttered something and proceeded to walk away until Ash stopped him again.

This time instead of ignoring Ash like in the past, Hugh turned around flashed him an irritated look before placing both of his hands on Ash's shoulders and shaking Ash violently. "What the hell do you want asshole?"

Ash was taken surprise by the boy's reaction and leaned back. "Well I just wanted to say that I was sorry for-"

Hugh cut him off with a sigh and then snapped at Ash. "Whatever. I already got over it. Next time, only bother me if you actually have something worthwhile to talk about."

Ash sighed. "Well yeah, but…" Ash paused for a second, trying to find a way to change the subject. It took a few seconds, but eventually Ash was able to figure out a way. "Well I was wondering if you wanted to battle with me or something?"

Hugh normally would denied the chance, but he figured that this trainer probably had tons of experience. While there were sightings of numerous Riolu in the region, they were incredibly rare, so he doubted that this trainer had gone through the trouble of going to find one. And, there was that Pikachu of his. You can't find a single Pikachu in Unova no matter how hard you looked. Therefore, he must be an experienced trainer. "Battle?," questioned Hugh in an intrigued tone as he put on a friendly look for the first time in Black City.

"Yeah, nodded Ash. You could be my first battle in Unova! Plus, you seem like a good warm-up before I challenge the Black Tower."

Hugh chuckled. "Normally, I would decline, but…" Hugh glanced at the Riolu and Pikachu that stood side by side Ash. "You don't seem to be from here, especially considering the fact that you have two Pokemon that are very hard to come by in Unova. So if I can beat you, then I can say that I have come a long way in my Pokemon training. Despite only having won one gym badge, I have started my training five years ago because of… uh… personal reasons."

Ash sweatdropped at the last statement, but put on a smile regardless. "Yeah. I'm from Kanto and I've competed in many leagues. Unova is going to be my fifth attempt at winning the league!"

"Hmm, smiled Hugh. I guess that I'll battle you in that case."

Ash nodded with eyes full of excitement. "Right. Just give me a second to ask Nurse Joy for my Pokemon and then we can find a place to battle."

Unbeknownst to the two trainers a teenager with a gray athletic sweatshirt stepped narrowed his eyes and brought out the same gadget that he had used to call his boss earlier that day. After a deep breath, he pressed a button and began to speak quietly. "Boss. I know that you told me to wait, but ever since you mentioned that the boy might cause a problem, I was thinking… what if I could get him to join Team Rocket rather than get rid of him?"

Laughter rang from the phone like gadget, the moment he mentioned such an idea. After the laughter died down, the cold and rough voice began to speak once more. "That isn't going to work. He's not one of those people that you can persuade or charm him into joining a criminal syndicate. If you met him in person, then you might observe that he has the traits of a Pokemon rights' activist. While, it could benefit Team Rocket greatly, he's unfortunately not willing to just join Team Rocket."

"I see, muttered the teenager before a devious smile formed on his face. In that case, I'd like to make him an offer that he can't refuse!"

The voice sighed, seeing that it was useless to talk the teenager out of this. "Fine then. You can do whatever you want, but if you can't persuade or blackmail him into joining us, then you'll have to get get rid off him."

The teenager nodded with a hint of disgust shown on his face. "Right… because of that I'm going to go to Team Rocket's HQ in Black City and request four grunts as back up in case things have to get a little dirty."

Giovanni smiled cruelly in his office. "Right… You don't wish to get your hands dirty, but…"

"What?," questioned the Chosen Executive.

"One of these days, you'll be tasked with a similar situation, but when that time comes, no one will be able to help you," said Giovanni bitterly.

The teenager bit his lip. "I'll make sure that things never come to that."

A sigh could be heard from the device. "You can't control everything that comes your way."

"yes I can, hissed the teenager. Everything has been going my way and it will continue to!" The teenager paused for a moment with his eyes glancing at Ash accepting his Pokemon from Nurse Joy. "Everything will go my way." With that, the teenager pressed a different button and began to speak once more.

"I would like to request four grunts for back up," said the teenager.

"Understood sir, replied a muffled voice as if programmed to. Where will you be in the next few minutes."

The Chosen Executive sighed. "Not sure. Just use the GPS tracking system method to pinpoint my location."

"Understood sir," responded the voice once again before hanging up.

The teenager smiled to himself. Things would go his way for sure. Everything always went his way.

AN: Alright. Be sure to let me know what you think of this chapter and I wish you guys a Happy Holidays!