Chapter no.318 Red Envelopes

[ Celadon City - Team Rocket Base ]
[ Women's Bathroom ]
[ Jessie's POV ]
I felt a hazy fog lifting from my mind. As I become aware of my surroundings, which seemed unfamiliar and strange to me. I felt disoriented and confused, unsure of how I got here or what has happened.
I looked around and saw that I was in a small, brightly lit room with no windows. I felt a sense of panic and fear rising within me as I tried to make sense of her surroundings. I reached out to touch the walls around me, but they felt cold and unyielding.
As I started to panic, I tried to call out for help, but no sound came out. It felt as though I was trapped, unable to move or escape. I struggled to remember what brought me here, but my memories are hazy and fragmented.
I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, trying to calm myself down. As I did, I felt a strange sensation in my mind, as if something was trying to push its way in. I resisted, but the pressure grows stronger and stronger until I can no longer hold out.
( ~ Snap~ )
As if a knot had been cut, I awoke with my mind clear as I looked around myself.
I was in a bathroom stall ?
A little confused and disoriented as to what was happening I stood up and pushed on the door as my feet gave way and before I could touch the disgusting bathroom floor, I managed to hold onto the stall door before pushing myself up and slowly and steadily I made my way out.
( ~ Chuckle ~ )
Hearing the sounds of chuckles, I turned to see a few team rocket grunt girls chuckling as they glanced at me.
" Take a picture, it'll last longer !" I screamed out causing the girls to hurriedly leave before I turned towards the mirror on the wall where I saw the words " Room " written on my forehead with lipstick.
My eyes widened in horror at my precious makeup having been ruined. I tried to remember my last memory.
' James and Meowth, I was eating with them before I tried to pick up the fallen spoon before.... I found myself here.' I blinked a few times before turning on the faucet.
" James and Meowth should know how this happened? ... right?"
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[ Team Rocket Base - Mesh Hall ]
" Hey, what's taking Jessie so long ? Did she fall in ?" James asked while eating his mashed potatoes.
" How'd I know ?" Meowth replied as glimpsed at a shimmer of light from James's lap.
" Hey, what's dat ?"
James looked down at his lap and saw a red envelope with a 1960's limited edition red velvet shake cap bottle.
James immediately picked it up excited as Meowth could see the utter joy in his eyes.
James picked up the bottle cap and saw the words, " Read in private " etched onto it.
" What's wrong ?"
" It's ruined, this masterpiece has been ruined by the greatest scum in the world !" James screamed out as he looked at the bottle cap with a melancholic look.
" Open da envelope, maybe there's money inside from a secret lover."
" Humph, whoever destroys the sacred body of the bottle caps, isn't someone I want to be with."
James's statement caused Meowth to sweatdrop as he used his claw to open the envelope.
Meowth and James curiously looked inside as Meowth looked disappointed at the lack of cash but his disappointment turned into confusion as he saw the image of a woman that looked eerily like Jessie but she wore an extremely fancy dress. The image of "Jessie" was attached to the image of a Growlithe sitting under a tree.
Meowth glanced up to James who had a blank expression on his face as he suddenly stood up and hurriedly left.
" Hey, what's da matter ?!" Meowth exclaimed as he saw James disappear from the hall.
" Meowth, where's James ?"
Meowth turned to see a furious Jessie with a red patch on her forehead looking at him.
( ~ Gulp ~ )
" He suddenly went in da direction of our rooms." Meowth replied causing Jessie to stop as she remembered the word," Room"
Getting a gut, feeling that something was wrong. Jessie hurriedly went towards her room leaving behind a confused Meowth.
Meowth looked at the remaining food and exclaimed," More for me!"
.....
( ~ Sticchh ~ )
Jessie flicked on the lights to her room as she saw a bright red envelope on her bed.
As she picked it up, a sense of dread filled her stomach.
The last few minutes of her memory was missing and it was all connected to this envelope.
Just what was happening?
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( ~ Cling ~ )
Green in her Lisa disguised walked out the Celadon City Gym as she quickly moved towards the alleyway before suddenly stopping as a dark ultramarine-blue, bipedal Pokémon that resembled a poison dart frog with yellow eyes, which were surrounded by black markings. There were orange, expandable pouches on its cheeks and a black marking encircled its upper arms and chest, and there are white bands around its chest. It had three fingers and toes, most of which were black. The only digits that were not black were its center fingers, which were orange instead.
" Croagunk !" The Pokémon exclaimed as it stood in front of Green.
" Hands in the air !" Someone screamed out from the back as Green glanced to find looker standing with a gun in his hand.
Green slowly raised her hands up.
" This is the international police, you are under arrest. Turn around slowly and hands where I can see them!" Looker shouted causing Green to slowly turn around but stop mid way as Looker saw Croagunk being launched at him at high speeds.
( ~ Crash ~ )
( ~ Thud ~ )
Looker gritted his teeth as he looked at the alleyway only to find it empty.
" Fuck !"
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[ Omake Paragraph ]
It is said that in the age when the Indigo Plateau was merely another geographical feature, Moltres itself made its nest there. It is said that the Pokemon League's legendary founder captured Moltres itself in an epic struggle, built the Hall of Fame on the site of its former nest, used it to win many battles, and when he grew old and felt death approaching, ordered a secret cavern in Victory Road to be constructed as his strongest comrade's new home.
This, of course, is legend, although it may also be fact. What is certain is that, as soon as it enters the historical record, the Pokemon League carried the flame of Moltres as its eternal torch. Pokemon trainers of the highest echelons have often worshiped it, not as a sky god or a flame god, but a god of power and victory.
Unlike many other legendary Pokemon, the existence of Moltres is not in serious doubt, although most skeptics consider it merely a rare and extremely powerful pokemon but not a god, and a few believe it to be a Pidgeot whose wings had caught fire. This is because many powerful trainers have challenged it to test their own strength, each of them seeking to be acknowledged as the greatest ever. Most fail, some perish, and others are dragged out to the Center by trainers who stumble upon Moltres' lair, or ocassionally the next challenger to come. No one since the League Founder has captured it, only Red has defeated it in combat, and even he had to use all six pokemon to do so.