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Pokemon Crystal Mind	By : Destroyahirismix666 Category: +M through R > Pokemon Views: 7762 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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A set-up chapter, prepping some of the long-running themes in the story along with readying us for the first gym badge. Hope you all enjoy.

Eon's head rose up, having heard something suspicious. It appeared that something within the woods nearby was stirring, coming closer...
Uncurling from it's ball like-formation, it stretched out it's front legs and back, then circled around it's trainer. Takuya was still on his front, fast asleep while laying atop the sleeping bag, with just a Space-Blanket between him on one side and her 'big brother' figure on the other side, who was similarly curled up but not yet awoken.
There was some crackling within the woods again, and the Eevee walked toward it, turning it's head at an awkward angle before walking toward the noise. Just a few full human paces from the thicker portions of the forest, a set of bushes parted accompanied by human footsteps. The brown-furred creature curious looked up as the male walked into the more 'clear' section of the forest.
“Oh...Hello Little one. I guess you belong to that traveler there?” The firm, yet soothing voice called out, crouching down to get closer to eye-level with the young normal-type. “Well, you're a healthy looking one. It's probably safe to assume that...”
“Step AWAY!” The silverish-blanket was tossed upwards, as Takuya, still wearing everything except his Jacket and his belt as they fell to the wayside, sprung up. In his left hand he held an unsheathed black knife, his right empty but completely rigid. Jupiter roused himself a bit slower, but despite just being asleep, it quickly took an aggressive stance, teeth growling to intimidate.
“Easy! Easy! My name's Brock, the Gym Leader from Pewter City! I was just taking a morning walk...”
Takuya held up a finger from his free hand, rubbing his eyes briefly and refocusing. “Sorry about that mis-understanding. I thought you were one of them.” Takuya crouched down, re-sheathing his knife in a sheath under his sleeping bag.
“Who?”
“Poachers. The ones that are wearing the giant 'R's on their shirts.”
“Oh...Team Rocket was disbanded years ago.”
“I'm not sure about that.” The teenager remarked, standing back up and stretching his arms. “You said you were from Pewter City?”
“Yes. My name is Brock and I'm the Gym Leader for that city.”
“I see.” Takuya walked over to the taller male. “Name is Takuya, Takuya Serizawa.” He grasped the Gym-Leader's hand, shaking it and bending down in respect.
“What were you sleeping just outside of the city limits for?”
“Let's just say that it is cheaper and more convenient. Except for the lack of a Pillow.”
“I see...”
“Your the Rock-Type Gym Leader hmmm?” Takuya smiled. “I was likely going to come and challenge you later this afternoon after a bit more training.”
“I'll be looking forward to that.”
“I'm sure you've already met my main team, Eon.” The blue-eyed male motioned with his hands to the Eeveolution behind him. Since the situation had calmed down, it was left to merely stretching and silently yawning. “That's Jupiter. He's the more aggressive one of the two.”
Brock's right eyebrow raised a bit, observing the two pokemon from a different perspective. “Like I said, I'll be looking forward to that today.” He started walking off toward the main city.
“Before you leave, I have a quick policy question. What do you think of videotaping matches?”
The Rock-type specialist looked over his shoulder. “I, and most of the other Gym-Leaders don't support it. We like to keep our strategies secret. Trainers aren't challenging us to beat us, they're challenging us to prove that they can adapt to any situation, regardless of what it is or what strategy they need to face off against.”
“Make sense.” Takuya waved again as the man began to stroll away.
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“Sit Down.”
The teenager dropped his entire body-weight into the chair. “Thank god, I didn't realize how tired my feet were until I got off of them!”
“This is serious mister!” The officer glared down at the younger man. “You have any idea what you've done?”
“Slept on private property? To hell if I know what I'm here for.”
The blue-haired female turned the computer monitor's screen toward the trainer. “You uploaded this, did you not?”
“Yes. Pokemon Battles have been recorded before, if you want to take me in for filming and promoting animal cruelty, that's a slippery slope.” On the screen was a paused frame of Jupiter tearing into the Sandslash that had been owned by a Team Rocket grunt.
“That's not it. You've single-handedly blown our cover over this terrorist organization.”
“Excuse me? Team Rocket was a organized gang...not a terrorist organization.”
“Officer Jenny...” The woman finally stopped her intense speaking, facing one of her male coworkers. “What is it?”
“How would the kid have known we were keeping a lid on this? To be fair, we might have done our job a little to well.”
Takuya drummed his fingers on the table. “Will someone please take care to explain this to me? That way, if this video does have to get taken down, I have a reason to explain to some...” Takuya took a look at the screen, searching for the view counter. “...20,000 people what is going on.”
“The cat's out of the bag Officer. To think we were able to keep a lid on this forever was stupid. I'm amazed that the various departments kept it secret for even 5 months.”
“...” She opened her mouth for a retort, but shut it afterwards.
“What were you guys trying to hide?”
“Kid, let me tell you something.” The male officer pulled up a chair, sitting in it with his front leaning up against the chair's back, arms resting on it. “This information is classified. While you may have blown our cover, this could still be a salvageable situation. But we'll need you in on this.”
“As long as I can continue my journey unhindered and still earn money, I won't tell...unless it brings me in a lot of dough to 'leak it...” The young man lowered his eyelids, obscuring his blue eyes as he turned his head to face Officer Jenny.
“You wouldn't dare-!”
“Officer!” The man held up his hand. “I'll give you the condensed version, but with all the important stuff still there. Team Rocket disbanded about 3 years ago. Everyone is familiar with Giovanni scandal, his isolation from the world, etc. The organization collapsed without having a strong figure head. Until now.”
“What are you getting at?” The trainer leaned into to the officer just a little bit more.
“About 5 months ago, Blue Oak, the current leader of the Viridian City gym, received a suspicious package in his mail. When he opened it, it revealed a set of explosives that were rigged to go off, but due to a packaging err, the fuse was damaged and it didn't detonate. Since then, about 3 other Kanto Region Gym Leaders have received similar packages, including our own Brock here in Pewter City. I don't know about Johto, their police force works with no connection to ours. Remember about two months ago there was supposedly an accident in the Cinnabar gym caused by a young Rapidash?”
“Yeah. I guess it wasn't true, it was a bomb?”
“Indeed. Thankfully, Gym Master Blaine had been out when that occurred, as was most of his pokemon.”
“Team Rocket was always just a criminal organization, operating on fear, bribery, and a small handful of good trainers. At least, the first Team Rocket did.” The blue-haired woman sat down on the desk, looking up to the ceiling.
“Gym Leaders aside, more then just one or two other explosive packages have been received at people's doorsteps or in businesses. Most of them are detected by guards or Pokemon trained to attune to oddities, such as Arcanine's powerful sense of smell. We had one go off at the lab of a Professor Ivy in the Sevii Islands. All of the packages have been addressed to either gym leaders, professors, or buildings that host anything related to our Government here in Kanto, and our Economy.”
“The economy is almost monopolized by Sliph Co, except for where they have made an executive choice not to intervene, such as transportation and food production for humans.” Takuya muttered. “What are you getting at?”
“We think Team Rocket has been completely reformed. While a quick study did turn up that the heads of Team Rocket, the ones below Giovanni, are all missing again, a slightly more in-depth study showed something else. Apparently, 6 of the 8 of them were Free-Worlders.”
Takuya took just a few moments to process the concept that Officer Jenny had just brought across. “The type of people who think that humans using Pokemon to battle for money is wrong, and that the current economic system should be banished because it is structured off that system? I'm familiar with the type. But not extremists. Are you saying...?”
“I'll put it to you this way kid. Free-World points of view are common with a lot of people, especially those in the lower sections of our 'Upper Social Class'. Usually people who run their own business or are in the middle-level echelons of larger companies such as Sliph Co. It wouldn't be hard for Team Rocket to find new recruits and sympathizers if they want to run that way.”
“Just because they are suddenly planting bombs everywhere and abusing wild Pokemon doesn’t mean they are now a Terrorist Organization running along a disorderly world-view, a view that's a complete 180 degree turn from their original intentions as a criminal and poaching organization.”
“You'd be right, if not for this.” The male officer looked over at the female one, and she reached into a drawer, and pulled out a large manilla envelope. “These letters are the ones that we got from here in Pewter City, just this city alone mind you.” He opened it up and shuffled the contents onto a nearby table. The trainer looked over at the table, seeing about 8 or 10 plain envelopes. “Each one is a terrorist threat. Almost all of the larger cities have received some of these at several major places. The Police Station, the local Poke-Mart, the Pokemon Centers, the Gym-Leaders if there are any in the city, and any other profitable location. For instance, our Natural Earth and Science museum here in Pewter pulls in a lot of tourism funds, and they also received a similar threat about two weeks ago. Another example would be the Pokemon Radio Tower in Lavender Town.”
“Inside of them all were direct demands that within 3 months, changes be made to that company's policy of earning and spending money, removing any relationship with pokemon or Sliph Co. Otherwise, they would be bombed, raided, etc.”
The teen sighed, leaning back in his chair a bit. His eyes briefly fell on the female officer's bust, however, he forced himself to turn away from that.“Trace the letters back and the situation is solved.”
“We can't. The return addresses on all of these are bogus or lead to run down places. Although one that was from...what city was it?”
“Celadon...”
“Yeah, Celadon's Pokemon Center's letter led back to Johto. As you know, normally our law-enforcement offices don't really relate to each-other, and when we attempted to approach them, we were basically told to leave them alone. We can't trace any of these back to even the dumbest members.”
“So what do I have to do about this?”
“Since your little online upload is the first public disclosure of the new Team Rocket, and while it is achieving viral status, most people seem to either think this is a hoax, set up, or more commonly, former Team Rocket Grunts longing for the old days where they intimidated naturally. YOU should know this.”
“Hey, I spent the last several nights recovering from a concussion after my little excursion...” Takuya pointed to the left side of his head where the makeshift Handkerchief-turned-Bandanna still covered the majority of a large pad. “And sleeping in the woods. I don't check the internet daily. The fact that one of my videos is going viral is great, my sponsors will love that. But again, what do you need?”
“Try to avoid any more Team-Rocket related stuff. I know it will pull in the views, but then people will start asking questions. While our market is much more stable then the ones in, for instance, Kalos or Unova, it's still fragile. With a returning powerful terrorist group, having the same name as the one that drove us crazy three years ago, making threats again, fewer business transaction will be made, fewer people would battle pokemon thus meaning fewer bets. Prices go up before long, only the extreme rich and those with special access like Gym Leaders, the Elite Four, and some Professors will have such access. It wouldn't take long for civil unrest to take over, and by that point, this New Team Rocket would have already won.”
“Okay, I get it. Don't rock the boat, otherwise the world as we know it is in jeopardy.” The male sighed, standing up slowly. “I have an afternoon appointment. You guys were lucky to catch me before I got to the gym.” He started to walk out, but just before the door, he stopped and turned around.
“I'm not going to guarantee complete silence. If someone approaches me and flat out asks me what I know, I'm not going to just lie to them. That said, if I plan to make money in more ways then just Pokemon battles and handyman jobs, and if I plan for that money to be worth anything, the economy needs to stay steady. As it is though, I believe this information should come out very slowly, not held back utterly.”
The two officers exchanged glances. “Mr Serizawa, the Kanto Police divisions, including the Pewter division, does not base itself around the ideas of a new-found trainer less then 20 years old.”
“I know, I know.” The teen turned back around, heading back outside as the sliding glass doors closed automatically behind him. “Just let it be known, it will still be MY generation that inherits this world after yours, let us start testing our wings somewhere beyond just the normal battle court.”
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