C&C: Temporal Disturbance

2: The better of two Evils

Everywhere you looked was barren and desolate wastelands in Yellow and Red Zones, areas of the Earth destroyed by Tiberium outbreak and war. Granted the Yellow Zones were still habitable but it was a hell hole to live in as you lived in a constant fear of Tiberium poisoning or Tiberium growth in your kitchen sink… but not anymore for the unlucky GDI soldiers who wound up in the Pokemon World after the Chrono incident which they now call the Dimension Shift.

It’s been two months since that day, even though some GDI officials were happy to be rid of the dead, poisoned world they used to call home, some weren’t. Some GDI personnel were asking if they could somehow get back as they felt it was their duty to try and save the world they were born into but they were constantly shot down and their hopes crushed.

General Cortes and a group of GDI’s highest ranking officers and scientists made a public appearance at the Saffron City, City Court to address the region about their arrival as well their intentions. The hearing didn’t go too well at the beginning as most people were seeing them like some criminal organisation like this Team Rocket that GDI has been hearing about often. After a few days of trying to convince the general public they managed to gain the trust and support of the people and so GDI was allowed to extent its presence across Kanto. GDI sent out Surveyors across the region, setting up small outposts in strategic locations.

GDI’s military muscle was still strong; they were not going to decrease their armour until they were certain that the Brotherhood wasn’t here in the Pokemon World too. GDI has reason to believe the Brotherhood is around as like themselves, wreckages of Nod vehicles were being found all over the place.

General Cortes stood in the President Office of the Sliph Co Building looking out across the city, his strong features shun in the bright sun. A smaller, older man approached him, his business suit a nice lavender colour and quite noticeable. Cortes smiled softly as he turned to face the man…

“I’m glad we could meet Mr President” Cortes said holding out his hand.

The President accepted his hand with a nod and smile “Yes, it’s a pleasure to meet you to General”

The President then shook his hand before releasing and sitting down in his office chair “What could we do for you?” he asks crossing a leg and intertwining his fingers as he leaned back in his chair.

“Is it at all possible for your company to sponsor GDI, it would be beneficial for both of us”

“In what way?”

“Well, Since GDI doesn’t have the technological support of its former suppliers and citizens we will need to establish a new way to gain support and according to the records we have now your company is the closest thing to match what we once had and with your support your customers may feel reassured that your technology and support is helping to serve and protect the region”

The President thought for a moment before smiling back to the General. “We will see what we can do for you” he smiles as the General nods.

The general looked around the office once again and saw a patch of the wall which had yet to be decorated after its reconstruction. “I do apologise for the damages your building sustained” he says remember how three of the V-35 Transport Aircraft hefted the husk of the Juggernaut that had crashed down onto the building two months ago and how the building crumbled apart as the massive husk was pulled free.

“It wasn’t your fault, I guess it was just the luck of the draw that one of those things fell on my building”

Cortes went to the door ready to leave for the roof “Its been a pleasure doing business with you Mister President” he says with a smile.

“Likewise” the President said with a nod and the General left.

On the roof of the building awaited a V-35 to take General Cortes back to base. The large aircraft took off vertically and then began to thrust forward toward MT Moon. Cortes joined the flight crew in the cockpit and watched as the scenery below them flew past.

Kanto, Mid-day outside of the newly opened Pokemon Centre in Pallet Town.

People had gathered around a makeshift poster of a missing person. According to the poster a girl of 12 years of age disappeared over a week ago without any trace. The parents are worried sick and are begging anyone who sees the poster and knows about their child to come forward and shed any information they have but so far nothing has turned up.

An Officer Jenny pushed through the gang of people to see the poster, she gasped when she saw it “This is the 50th poster this week” she says to herself out loud but wasn’t picked up by the constant chatter of the other people gathered around talking to each other or to themselves. She pushed her way back to her motorcycle and picked up her radio.

“Dispatch, come in” She called into the receiver.

“Dispatch here, go ahead” she heard fizz from the speaker.

“I have another location with the missing person poster, over”

“Another one, is it one of the other missing suspects? over”

“Yes, it’s of young Vyvian Tameside, over”

“Ok, report back with anything, if anything, over and out”

“Affirmative” She ended the transmission and put the radio down before looking back to the crowd. In the last three weeks over six Pokemon Trainers have disappeared and no traces of them have been found, who or what has kidnapped them has successfully hidden themselves beyond detection of the police.

Jenny boarded her cycle and rode off into route 01 before stopping at the security post. Dismounting her cycle she stepped inside of the buff looking at the Kanto map on the back wall where she had marked the locations of the disappearances with red topped pins. As she studied the map to decide which route she should patrol next she saw a pattern with the locations of the disappearances. All of them apart from about two had all disappeared on the route leading out or to Fuchsia City on the Lavender or Vermilion routes side.

She studied the locations a little closely and they did disappear on the route itself but where they disappeared from was just open and empty land. “Shit” she cried punching the wall in a slight fit of anger as seeing the locations to be in the middle of nowhere she believed she just hit a dead end. She was just about to head to her cycle to tell Dispatch about the locations but she stopped and thought “They must of saw this too, its not hard to miss” she tells herself and decides not to tell her superiors about it and so she returns to her duties.

Nod Base, 20:00 hours.

Kane stepped on the balcony overlooking the launch silos of his Tiberium Research Centre smiling widely as he eyed the two T-Seed Missiles. He was grateful to the scientists to have kept samples of Green-T and Blue-T in deep freeze.

He watched as the two missiles were then enclosed into the launch tubes as they were set and ready to launch, this world will now be blessed with the gift of Tiberium and his vision of a Tiberium Future can continue. A tall well built man approached his famed leader with a clip board in one hand.

“Kane, Missiles containing T-Seeds Green and Blue are prepped and ready to launch” He told his leader with a hint of pride.

“Good, at dawn we will launch”

“Very good, the world will once again be blessed with your gift” the man said bowing his head as he backed away to make the final preparations.

Kane smiled “This time no one can stop me” he said with an evil grin spreading on his face. After spending a couple of moments looking at the missiles he turned and began to head for the Secret Shrine complex. He took a moment to watch a Beam Cannon drive by and head for the north-east Obelisk of Light as it used its Charge Beam ability to give the massive defence tower addition range and power.

The Secret Shrine was a small but religious looking building. It stood with tall red glass curved walls and a plume of green smoke emitting from its roof showing that its Tiberium Infusion upgrade had been activated. Kane walked through the entrance and into an elevator. He hit the sub level 4 button which took him deeper and deeper into the Shrine. Several seconds pass and the doors open into a laboratory. He was hit by the clean sterile air as he stepped into the vast room full of equipment, chemicals, computers, etc. He moved slow and causal down one side of the room until he came to a steel door, placing his hand onto a print reader the door opened automatically and he entered the room and he was pitched into darkness.

“Lights” he called out softly and suddenly the room was lit by the numerous lights scattered about the walls and ceiling, all giving off the traditional reddish tint of the Brotherhood’s default red colour. He saw six large tubes all aligned into rows of three. He smiled walking to the gap between the two columns of tubes looking at them but they were in darkness themselves so he called for the tubes to be lit and in seconds the tubes were filled with green light revealing what sat inside them.

Kane smiled as he looked at the tube’s occupant, a small twelve year old human girl, stripped naked and was connected to several cords all stuck into her flesh. Kane stepped closer looking at the girl. She wore a breathing mask to allow her to breath and was fed nutrients through the tubes connected all over her body to keep her healthy.

Kane looked at the plate at the foot of the tube. “Experiment 06: Pokemon Soldier ‘Pikachu’”. He looked back up to the girl and notices fin yellow hairs on her arms and he smiled. “My attempts to make super soldiers using Tiberium failed, lets hope you yield better results with your Pikachu’s genetic material combined with your own” he said to her, aware she couldn’t hear him.

The six tubes housed the missing children, each one had been injected with a DNA Alerting serum that was combined with their best pokemon’s genetic code in an attempt to create humanoid pokemon and use them as soldiers. So far everything looked to be going as planned and as expected. Kane examined the other five with a satisfied smile on his face and soon left the room before heading back to his temple.

Kane sat in his office in the tower of the Temple looking at the files he was given regarding the animal population of the world known as Pokemon. He was up to Pokemon No.25 and smiled as it was the same pokemon that Experiment 06 had been infused with. “Pikachu, an Electric Pokemon” he smiled. He was beginning to like this new world he now inhabited; it seemed that these Pokemon could bring limitless possibilities for the Brotherhood.

Looking over the file he heard a monitor crackle to life, looking up he saw the blue face likeness of himself. “CABAL” he said looking at the face. “Anything to give me?” He asks as he returns his gaze to the file.

“I have successfully infiltrated a computer network of a criminal organisation that operates in this region and the neighbouring region of Johto” he said in his creepy voice.

“That’s important, why?”

“This organisation is very advanced, uses pokemon to do their bidding and could prove to be a good asset to the Brotherhood”

Kane thought for a moment, this organisation could indeed be useful. “I suppose you think we should take it over?” Kane asks the machine.

“It would be beneficial”

Kane smiles “Send the co-ordinates of the organisation’s leader to me” He orders the machine.

CABAL nods before disappearing off the screen and soon a printer on Kane’s desk began to print out the location as well as a satellite photograph of the target. It was a huge mansion.

“The organisation is known as Team Rocket and the leader of the group is a man by the name of Giovanni. The photograph shows his estate” CABAL informs him.

“Good work” Kane says before shutting off the monitor.

He held the photo for a couple of minutes examining the mansion. This Giovanni must be loaded to have such a huge mansion to himself but he smiled again as he formulated a plan.

Early in the morning as planned the two Tiberium Seed missiles launched, the personnel watched with pride as the two missiles turned and began to fly off in different directions as they were to hit ground in open land, out of sight of the local communities. Kane smiled as he watched the missiles leave the stealth field of the Disruption Towers.

”Kane, your Carryall is ready” Came the voice of one of his many assistants.

He turned and headed out of the building and boarded his Carryall. The Carryall was Nod’s mode of aerial transportation for carrying troops or vehicles. Kane’s Carryall was modified to have it’s own Stealth Generator to avoid detection. Kane was soon joined in his Carryall by four Elite Cadre infantry units, they are the best of the best when it came to soldiers but because of how effective they are there aren’t a lot so the remaining Cadres are assigned to protecting important people in the Brotherhood, depending on the people they guard depends on how many of them as Kane is the leader he has four.

The machine took to the air and began to fly in the direction of Viridian City. Giovanni’s mansion is just outside the city close to the neighbouring forest. As the Carryall flew over the War Factories Kane smiled as he saw the assembly of Stealth Tanks that were going to follow them to the Mansion.

T-Seed Missile G struck ground north of Lavender Town, the sudden strike sent Tiberium particles out and around the impact zone and within seconds Tiberium crystals began to grow in the rich soil. The green crystals rose up from the ground around where the missile hit. Like the meteor that hit Earth before, this missile has done the same, repeating Nod’s and GDI’s 57 year long history in the Tiberium Wars.

A few minutes after Missile G hit, Missile B hit open farmland close to the boarder of Kanto and Johto, the same process was repeated but this time with the more valuable and potent Blue Tiberium. Blue Tiberium isn’t as deadly as it used to be back in 2030 but it is still as valuable. Nod Scientists were not sure if Blue Tiberium would remain the same, well, they didn’t know if Tiberium would revert back to what it was back in 1990 as this is a new uninfected planet so the whole process could be restarted, if Tiberium does return to its original state then Blue Tiberium will become deadly. The main fear about it was if it was exposed to flame or an explosion of sorts, Blue Tiberium would detonate and a chain reaction would set the rest of the T-Field off until most of the field had exploded. This effect happened mostly during Ion Storms.

It was now a matter of time before Tiberium is discovered and when it is, how will GDI combat it, what will Tiberium do to Pokemon, would it kill them, or would it mutate them. If mutation, just what could Tiberium do to them, make them dangerous, make them aggressive or will it totally mutate them like it did with the Tiberium Fiends, Floaters and Visceroids. Only time will tell.

Mew is sitting on the cliff over looking the GDI base before she suddenly freezes, sensing a great evil now. “Something is wrong” she says to herself looking down at the base “Its not them I feel, something….more” She looks down closer to be sure and she then looks up feeling something else. “What is happening?” she asks herself again, she is sensing Tiberium but because it’s nothing like pokemon have ever faced before she doesn’t know what to make of it.

Mew takes off from her perch and begins to fly towards the mountain above the Rock Tunnel where she felt the first thing. As she flies around the mountain she was just about to leave it, thinking she had just felt a sudden surge of energy, nothing out of the ordinary until she saw it, the green eerie glow and then the substance itself. “What is that?” she says to herself getting closer but stops feeling the darkness that emits from it. “Whatever that stuff it, its certainly not good”

Celebi appears beside Mew after feeling the same things she did. She makes a horrific look as she sees the green crystalline substance.

“What is it Mew?”

“I don’t know”

“Is this that disturbance we felt?”

“Yes, I believe it is, I can feel the evilness emitting from it”

“Where did it come from?”

“I dunno……….It looks like it fell to the ground” Celebi says as she sees the crater from the Missile impact.

The two legendaries talked about this new element to their world, seeing it as a threat but none of them going anywhere near it as they can feel how black it is. Feeling it seem to get darker they fled, wanting to bide time to find a way to remove it but also wondering if the new humans to their world had something to do with it.

Team Rocket Boss Resident Mansion 10:00am

Giovanni sat back into his study room chair taking a sip from his cup of English Tea while holding a news paper open with his free hand as he read the local news. His hand clenched harder onto the paper as he read some of the news, not good news for him as GDI stopped another Team Rocket operation.

“God damn it, ever since that time anomaly thing all my operations are beginning to end in failure” he almost shouts in anger. “I’m lucky to get mid-level operations done now cause of them”. He was well and truly pissed at GDI; he was beginning to get increasingly angry with them like Nod is. He sighs putting his tea onto his desk and stands up and moves to the large window in the room. He sighs again looking out to the bright sunrise.

He raises a brow seeing a nearby tree had toppled over. “Odd…” he says seeing the uprooted tree. It looked like a tree which had been blown down during a violent storm. He looks around for possible storm effects but doesn’t see anything at all. He narrows his eyes sensing something isn’t right.

Kane’s Stealth Tanks surround the mansion making sure if their target tried to run there was no where for him to go. One of the Stealth Tanks accidentally knocked over a tree as it got into position but luckily he didn’t let the tree fall straight down as he eased it down to prevent it from making a noise. Once all the Stealth Tanks were in position they gave the signal to Kane’s Carryall which then set down close to the front doors. Kane and his Elites jumped out of the aircraft and made their way to the mansion. The Elites taking point around Kane, their weapons trained on all possible ambush locations. Walking up the stairs the Elites stood on either side of the main double doors, two ready to point their weapons into the house and the other two aiming down the walkways on either side of the walls of the mansion. As Kane got to the door he nodded to one of the Cadres who then smashed the butt of his rifle against the heavy wood door.

“What the hell?” he yells hearing the loud smack and the sound of splintering wood. He heard it again this time there was more wood breaking. He hurried to the main stairs that over looked the main hall and the front doors. He stood at the balcony and saw a hole in the door “Who is there?” he shouts in his stern booming voice. There was no reply but another loud smash rung through the house and the double doors burst open. He instinctively grabbed a Pokeball off his belt and held it ready to release the pokemon inside. Before he could do anything else four men ran into the hall and each one held up their weapon, aiming at him directly.

Kane steps inside and smiles “You must be Giovanni” he said in his calm unnerving voice. The man on the balcony didn’t move nor respond. “Whatever it is you are holding, drop it” Orders one of the Elite Cadres and the man drops the ball; it hits the floor before rolling off the edge and lands on the floor in front of them. It pops open and in a blinding flash of white light it releases its inhabitant and a large six foot canine creature stood before them growling. The Elites didn’t move and neither did Kane, two of the Cadres trained their weapons on the unknown animal in front of them.

Giovanni didn’t know what to make of these intruders, men dressed in black, four of them wearing armour and helmets that obscured their faces and a man in a long black trench coat or religious robe and a bald head with facial hair surrounding his mouth stood in the main hall. Giovanni looked down, seeing that his Arcanine had been released from it’s ball. He didn’t want to give his pokemon an attack order as he knew that the men apart from the one in the middle held guns and they would surely kill his pokemon along with him so in the end he held up his arms to show his hands. One of the armoured men began to move up the stairs, his gun always aimed at his head until he was right up to him, the man then lets go of his gun, letting it hang by the strap and he pulls down both of Giovanni’s arms and holds them behind his back before marching him down the stairs so he was then stood in front of the bald man.

Kane puts his hand onto Giovanni’s shoulder like a friend would in a supportive manner and begins to lead him to his own lounge. Giovanni didn’t know how Kane knew the way and everything but again didn’t want to try anything in fear of being shot. “Me and you have much to talk about” Kane says in a friendly way.

“We do?” Giovanni says in his usual voice.

“I heard your organisation is the best there is, it could be of good use to me” Kane smiles

Giovanni narrows his eyes slightly. “There is no way I will give it to you”

Kane now steps in front of him “You don’t have a choice in the matter” he says in a deep, dark voice and Giovanni could see that Kane meant business.

(This is chapter 2, I hope you enjoyed it and what do you think Giovanni will do?)