Giovanni motioned for his associates to stay back. Dreadite and
Car'tos complied, keeping Icy out of sight and quiet.
"I chose Nido-"
"SCYTHER!" A flash of red from somewhere around Dreadite
formed into a blade-armed pokemon.
"Dreadite! Keep your pokemon out of this."
"It's not my pokemon."
"Then what was it doing on your person?"
"I don't know." Almost faster than any of the eyes
present could follow, Dreadite whipped out his sword, beheaded Scyther, and resheathed his
weapon before Scyther could hit the ground. "And I don't care."
Instead of collapsing, though, the Scyther's body staggered for a
bit, while its head made a perfect arc to land on Booga's shoulder, gooey strands of
*something* trailing from severed neck to neck stump. As startled as he was, Booga was
even more surprised when the head whispered, "This is not a safe place for you right
now. Leave."
Giovanni carefully watched the Scyther stagger, nearly straight
and true, towards Booga. When it finally collapsed, it dug its arms into the floor,
carving a roughly circular hole beneath the novice trainer and sending him to the floor
below. The Scyther's head landed on its body.
Icy's nose twitched. That Scyther smelled familiar...
Giovanni abruptly kicked the Scyther into the hole, then walked
out of his office into the hallway where Dreadite, Car'tos, and Icy waited. Only after he
closed and locked his office door did he touch a wall intercom. "Security to my
office NOW! There's a Ditto on the loose." He turned to the others. "Let us
discuss business elsewhere. I suspect our guests are about to get noisy."
"Sir?"
"Dreadite, Car'tos: from now on, scan yourselves for pokemon
before entering our bases. It would seem that our old friend Mimic has picked up a new
trick..."
At that moment, though, Mimic was in the form of an Eevee,
practicing nothing more sinister than sheer cuteness [1] as four girls tried to cuddle him
simultaneously in the Celadon Pokemon Center.
"I'll do what I feel is neccisary, Giovanni." Dreadite
glared at the leader of Team Rocket, and waved his hand. "Not like that would help,
you know. Dittos are amazingly harder to detect than you'd imagine."
Giovanni shruged. "Do it. Understand?"
Dreadite smirked. "Whatever you say."
Icy just paniced, and started to bolt. Dreadite stepped back, and
disapeared as teh teleport pad went into play, flashing bright before calming down. Icy
paniced, and Dreadite reapeared above him on the celing, before dropping down in front of
him. "Hold it."
Giovanni smiled. As much as Dreadite seemed to disobey and spite
him, he WAS an effective member. Car'tos just shrugged as Dreadite kicked at Icy. Icy
dodged back, and stepped right into Giovanni. Dreadite laughed, and Giovanni picked the
Pikachu up.
"Icy, Icy... you make too much of a fuss. You know you can't
win."
As Giovanni picked the Pikachu up, Dreadite pressed the intercom
button.
"This is Dreadite. Have Erich Owens transported to the
Pokémon Island."
