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It turns out that in the end Giovanni is only human... but that might just be another thing to worry about.
Don't Give Me Diamonds
Diamond 04: Give me Courage
Giovanni and Delia had been traveling from quite some time. Delia was anxious to treat Shellder, but couldn't do it in the car. The sandy colored egg she had obtained from the Persian sat on her lap.
"I wondered what you did with that egg; I should have known you were taking care of it yourself," Giovanni broke the long silence that had bored him.
"The others are busy, besides, I don't think they want a pokemon egg," Delia explained.
"I'm sure they don't..."
Delia got the impression Giovanni found the egg to be useless and reminded him, "it will hatch one day."
"I suppose so; it doesn't require too much care, does it?"
"Not really..." After being trusted not to run away and moving to the hideout, Delia was given more freedom. She once went to the Pokemon Center in Cerulean City and reassured nurse Joy that the mysterious gang were vigilantes looking out for the pokemon's well being, so she didn't need to worry. She told Joy she would return to continue her studies in Pallet Town with Professor Oak.
Then she called Professor Oak and told him she had become fascinated with the world outside of her small town home and wanted to journey to do some research in other areas. The professor agreed and encouraged Delia, thinking that she might find something while traveling that could be missed in the Pokemon Centers and laboratories. She felt bad about hiding her true intentions, but told herself it was for a good cause.
"Where are we going?" Delia finally asked, they had been driving for some time and had gone past Cerulean City. They would soon reach the coast.
"To my secret get away," he waited for her reaction.
"Your secret get away?" Delia was puzzled, completely missing the hint. "A research laboratory?"
"No, a beach house."
Delia laughed; she didn't even know Giovanni could make silly sarcastic jokes like that. The problem was he wasn't laughing. "You're not really serious, are you?"
"Why wouldn't I be? Even future mafia lords need vacations every now and then. I've been working had and so have you. We're going on a little one week holiday, I'm sure you'll-" Delia slammed her first hard on the dashboard and Giovanni instinctively stomped on the breaks. "What are you doing?!"
To say Delia was furious would be an understatement, "Giovanni Rocketto, pokemon are dying."
He decided it was time for a change of tactics, lest the mood be ruined further. "I was kidding, we are going to my beach house but it's for research purposes." The next part was not really a lie, "Luke told me he found healthy pokemon at the beach. Researchers have been looking at the ill pokemon, trying to find a cause and a cure. Maybe looking at healthy pokemon and their environment will reveal new information. I thought you could make comparisons and see what's present in one situation and not in the other."
Delia took a deep breath and calmed down, "I'm sorry for losing my temper; I've just been so stressed about the pokemon and the virus. The thought of taking a vacation when the pokemon need me the most is impossible. I apologize."
"It's alright; just try to relax, you'll do better in your research with a clear mind and don't forget to stay open to the possibilities." Albeit the possibilities he had in mind didn't involve researching pokemon.
"Yes, you're right, I'll try my best." The rest of the way to the beach was calm and quiet.
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Giovanni and Delia arrived at the secluded little beach house, which stood modest but cozy. "What's first on the schedule?" Delia inquired.
"There is no schedule, just do what you feel you need to do," Giovanni replied.
"Right, then I'll get started right away. I want to check on Shellder, I'll treat him at the beach, I don't think his condition is really serious and he was caught in this area so it should be safe." Said and done, Delia got to work right away.
xoxox xox xoxox
Delia was focused on sealing the cracks on Shellder's shell when a shadow indicated that someone was behind her. "Delia..."
"Yes?" She continued focusing on her work without looking up. She recognized the voice as being Giovanni's.
"This..." He extended his hand over her shoulder, holding out a bottle of sun-block where she could see it.
"Oh yes, thank you," she took the bottle and poured some lotion into her hands then proceeded to cover every inch of exposed skin she had. She was still wearing her Team Rocket uniform so that wasn't a lot.
"You know, there's a shop near here that sells beach supplies. You could get a bikini..."
"To go for a swim and take samples of the water for further study? Good idea..."
"I need sun block too..."
"I'm done, you can take the bottle back," she held the bottle over her shoulder and still refused to look at him. She knew what to expect.
"Aren't you going to help me put it on?" That was the last drop.
Delia stood, seeing that Giovanni was in fact wearing only swim trunks and he had set up a large umbrella, a couple of beach chairs and a cooler near by. She glared at him then pitched the sun-block bottle into the ocean as hard as she could. She then sat next to Shellder and resumed her work.
Instead of getting angry, Giovanni laughed and welcomed the challenge. Delia liked to play hard to get, but she was cute, resourceful and brave, certainly worth the challenge and Giovanni was proud and arrogant enough to believe he could get whatever he wanted. Soon enough, she would come to him.
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After Shellder was taken care of, Delia started taking samples of the sand. She didn't have the proper equipment to analyze them at the Team Rocket hideout and she still had a lot to learn about the process, but maybe she could send some samples to Professor Oak. She did say she would be researching so it fit her story, as for Team Rocket, this wouldn't put them in any danger of being discovered so she wouldn't get into any big trouble, thus would be allowed to continue caring for their pokemon.
Giovanni was swimming around near by, occasionally glancing at Delia to see if she was looking. She was, but only slightly and with annoyance. Then her expression suddenly changed to alarm when she spotted something big heading towards him. "Get out of the water! There's something behind you, get out quick!"
Knowing that she wouldn't give him a false alert of danger, Giovanni tried to get to shore as fast as he could, but felt something pull him underwater. The creature surfaced along with him, revealing itself to be a Gyarados. The Gyarados roared angrily and looked at Delia who was at the beach, furious at her as well.
Delia couldn't move; she just stood there looking at the Gyarados' mixture of rage and agony. Did it seek shelter in this beach running away from an area that was contaminated by the virus? Were pokemon truly that aware of the epidemic, perhaps more aware than researchers? It was as if the Gyarados was blaming her and Giovanni, blaming all humans for this disaster and assuming they were at the beach to spread it.
"Shellder, shellder!" The smaller pokemon argued with the Gyarados, defending the human who had helped him. The Gyarados roared angrily in return, pained and unforgiving.
"Let him go," Delia pleaded with the Gyarados. "Please let him go! We didn't do anything wrong! We're not the cause of the virus; we're trying to find a cure for it! Please believe me, I'm taking sand and water samples to study them, I'm trying to figure out what's going on."
"Shellder!" The pokemon offered his support, but the Gyarados was too angry to listen to reason.
The Gyarados held Giovanni tightly, her long body wrapped around the uselessly struggling human. For a moment it looked like she would devour him, but Shellder jumped towards the Gyarados trying to tackle her and was caught in the massive pokemon's mouth.
"Shellder, Giovanni!" Delia panicked; she didn't know what to do. What could she do? She had no other pokemon save for he egg inside the house, and she couldn't fight the Gyarados herself, it was far too big and strong. Now the angry sea pokemon had them both. It looked like Shellder was about to be crushed to peaces. "Stay strong Shellder, I'll be right back!"
Delia rushed to the house as fast as she could. She dug through her luggage searching for that water stone she packed just in case. She found it, ran back and threw the water stone at Shellder. Unfortunately, Gyarados was moving too much in her attempt to find the strength to crush Shellder and the water stone fell to the sea.
Full of determination, Delia dived after it, retrieving the water stone while Shellder still kept Gyarados busy. She surfaced and climbed on to Gyarados' body where she held Giovanni.
Angered, Gyarados prepared to use a hyper beam, trying to take out the traitorous Shellder that sided with humans and the troublesome humans all at once. When Gyarados aimed, Delia took the opportunity to throw the water stone at Shellder, causing him to evolve into Cloyster. "Aurora beam!"
Cloyster broke free of Gyarados' grip and attacked, defeating the larger pokemon. As Gyarados fell, seemingly unconscious, Delia and Giovanni struggled not to be trapped under her heavy body while Cloyster helped them get to shore.
"Thank you Cloyster, you saved our lives," Delia gave the pokemon her sincere gratitude as she hugged him. "What do you say?" She paused and waited for Giovanni to speak, but he only looked puzzled, "say thank you to Cloyster, he saved our lives!"
"I'm not in the mood to argue, thank you Cloyster," Giovanni couldn't believe what he was saying, though he didn't care too much, it was just to keep Delia calm because he really wasn't in the mood to argue right now.
"Well, it seems Gyarados will need a long rest, we'll be fine for a while. You've done very well; come rest in your pokeball," Delia searched around for the pokeball on the beach and potted it half buried in the sand. "Cloyster, return!"
"That was close; I didn't think there would be wild Gyarados in this beach."
"She was looking for shelter, or vengeance. But she's gone now," Delia felt herself start to cry again, how many had passed away like this.
She noticed Giovanni's confused look, "why are you crying? We're safe now, and you were very brave."
"She's dead; the Gyarados is dead, not just fainted. I didn't want Cloyster to feel bad to I pretended she just passed out and called him to his pokeball so he wouldn't know. She was fighting the virus, she was weak from it. Cloyster is very strong I'm sure, but to take out a Gyarados capable of using hyper beam in one hit right after evolving? Maybe what really makes Cloyster so strong is that he was able to stay healthy."
Giovanni looked at the still Gyarados. She really was dead, that virus was more powerful than anyone thought. He wondered if it would end up wiping out the existence of pokemon completely. He didn't say that to Delia, she was upset enough as it was. He hugged her and allowed her to get her frustration and sadness out of her system, she had been very helpful after all.
They stayed like that for some time, until Delia calmed down. "I want to take sand and water samples; I also want to sample Gyarados scales and a blood sample. I want to send these samples to Professor Oak; I assure you I won't mention Team Rocket. He thinks I'm traveling around doing research so this won't seem odd, all the opposite, he might find it odd if I don't share anything from my research with him."
"Alright, I'll trust you to keep Team Rocket a secret," he could trust her, he somehow knew it. "I'll help you get the samples; we better leave after we're done." Delia's connections might prove useful as well.
They quietly got to work collecting the needed samples. While they worked a Krabby approached them and they noted it looked healthy. The pokemon opposed no resistance to being caught by Delia, as if he had witnessed Cloyster's strength and wished to be trained too.
After the samples were collected, they were packed up, ready to be delivered to Professor Oak. They changed into normal clothes that didn't identify them as being part of Team Rocket and went on their way to Pallet Town.
To be Continued
Disclaimer, I don't own Pokemon.
Don't Give Me Diamonds
Diamond 04: Give me Courage
Giovanni and Delia had been traveling from quite some time. Delia was anxious to treat Shellder, but couldn't do it in the car. The sandy colored egg she had obtained from the Persian sat on her lap.
"I wondered what you did with that egg; I should have known you were taking care of it yourself," Giovanni broke the long silence that had bored him.
"The others are busy, besides, I don't think they want a pokemon egg," Delia explained.
"I'm sure they don't..."
Delia got the impression Giovanni found the egg to be useless and reminded him, "it will hatch one day."
"I suppose so; it doesn't require too much care, does it?"
"Not really..." After being trusted not to run away and moving to the hideout, Delia was given more freedom. She once went to the Pokemon Center in Cerulean City and reassured nurse Joy that the mysterious gang were vigilantes looking out for the pokemon's well being, so she didn't need to worry. She told Joy she would return to continue her studies in Pallet Town with Professor Oak.
Then she called Professor Oak and told him she had become fascinated with the world outside of her small town home and wanted to journey to do some research in other areas. The professor agreed and encouraged Delia, thinking that she might find something while traveling that could be missed in the Pokemon Centers and laboratories. She felt bad about hiding her true intentions, but told herself it was for a good cause.
"Where are we going?" Delia finally asked, they had been driving for some time and had gone past Cerulean City. They would soon reach the coast.
"To my secret get away," he waited for her reaction.
"Your secret get away?" Delia was puzzled, completely missing the hint. "A research laboratory?"
"No, a beach house."
Delia laughed; she didn't even know Giovanni could make silly sarcastic jokes like that. The problem was he wasn't laughing. "You're not really serious, are you?"
"Why wouldn't I be? Even future mafia lords need vacations every now and then. I've been working had and so have you. We're going on a little one week holiday, I'm sure you'll-" Delia slammed her first hard on the dashboard and Giovanni instinctively stomped on the breaks. "What are you doing?!"
To say Delia was furious would be an understatement, "Giovanni Rocketto, pokemon are dying."
He decided it was time for a change of tactics, lest the mood be ruined further. "I was kidding, we are going to my beach house but it's for research purposes." The next part was not really a lie, "Luke told me he found healthy pokemon at the beach. Researchers have been looking at the ill pokemon, trying to find a cause and a cure. Maybe looking at healthy pokemon and their environment will reveal new information. I thought you could make comparisons and see what's present in one situation and not in the other."
Delia took a deep breath and calmed down, "I'm sorry for losing my temper; I've just been so stressed about the pokemon and the virus. The thought of taking a vacation when the pokemon need me the most is impossible. I apologize."
"It's alright; just try to relax, you'll do better in your research with a clear mind and don't forget to stay open to the possibilities." Albeit the possibilities he had in mind didn't involve researching pokemon.
"Yes, you're right, I'll try my best." The rest of the way to the beach was calm and quiet.
xoxox xox xoxox
Giovanni and Delia arrived at the secluded little beach house, which stood modest but cozy. "What's first on the schedule?" Delia inquired.
"There is no schedule, just do what you feel you need to do," Giovanni replied.
"Right, then I'll get started right away. I want to check on Shellder, I'll treat him at the beach, I don't think his condition is really serious and he was caught in this area so it should be safe." Said and done, Delia got to work right away.
xoxox xox xoxox
Delia was focused on sealing the cracks on Shellder's shell when a shadow indicated that someone was behind her. "Delia..."
"Yes?" She continued focusing on her work without looking up. She recognized the voice as being Giovanni's.
"This..." He extended his hand over her shoulder, holding out a bottle of sun-block where she could see it.
"Oh yes, thank you," she took the bottle and poured some lotion into her hands then proceeded to cover every inch of exposed skin she had. She was still wearing her Team Rocket uniform so that wasn't a lot.
"You know, there's a shop near here that sells beach supplies. You could get a bikini..."
"To go for a swim and take samples of the water for further study? Good idea..."
"I need sun block too..."
"I'm done, you can take the bottle back," she held the bottle over her shoulder and still refused to look at him. She knew what to expect.
"Aren't you going to help me put it on?" That was the last drop.
Delia stood, seeing that Giovanni was in fact wearing only swim trunks and he had set up a large umbrella, a couple of beach chairs and a cooler near by. She glared at him then pitched the sun-block bottle into the ocean as hard as she could. She then sat next to Shellder and resumed her work.
Instead of getting angry, Giovanni laughed and welcomed the challenge. Delia liked to play hard to get, but she was cute, resourceful and brave, certainly worth the challenge and Giovanni was proud and arrogant enough to believe he could get whatever he wanted. Soon enough, she would come to him.
xoxox xox xoxox
After Shellder was taken care of, Delia started taking samples of the sand. She didn't have the proper equipment to analyze them at the Team Rocket hideout and she still had a lot to learn about the process, but maybe she could send some samples to Professor Oak. She did say she would be researching so it fit her story, as for Team Rocket, this wouldn't put them in any danger of being discovered so she wouldn't get into any big trouble, thus would be allowed to continue caring for their pokemon.
Giovanni was swimming around near by, occasionally glancing at Delia to see if she was looking. She was, but only slightly and with annoyance. Then her expression suddenly changed to alarm when she spotted something big heading towards him. "Get out of the water! There's something behind you, get out quick!"
Knowing that she wouldn't give him a false alert of danger, Giovanni tried to get to shore as fast as he could, but felt something pull him underwater. The creature surfaced along with him, revealing itself to be a Gyarados. The Gyarados roared angrily and looked at Delia who was at the beach, furious at her as well.
Delia couldn't move; she just stood there looking at the Gyarados' mixture of rage and agony. Did it seek shelter in this beach running away from an area that was contaminated by the virus? Were pokemon truly that aware of the epidemic, perhaps more aware than researchers? It was as if the Gyarados was blaming her and Giovanni, blaming all humans for this disaster and assuming they were at the beach to spread it.
"Shellder, shellder!" The smaller pokemon argued with the Gyarados, defending the human who had helped him. The Gyarados roared angrily in return, pained and unforgiving.
"Let him go," Delia pleaded with the Gyarados. "Please let him go! We didn't do anything wrong! We're not the cause of the virus; we're trying to find a cure for it! Please believe me, I'm taking sand and water samples to study them, I'm trying to figure out what's going on."
"Shellder!" The pokemon offered his support, but the Gyarados was too angry to listen to reason.
The Gyarados held Giovanni tightly, her long body wrapped around the uselessly struggling human. For a moment it looked like she would devour him, but Shellder jumped towards the Gyarados trying to tackle her and was caught in the massive pokemon's mouth.
"Shellder, Giovanni!" Delia panicked; she didn't know what to do. What could she do? She had no other pokemon save for he egg inside the house, and she couldn't fight the Gyarados herself, it was far too big and strong. Now the angry sea pokemon had them both. It looked like Shellder was about to be crushed to peaces. "Stay strong Shellder, I'll be right back!"
Delia rushed to the house as fast as she could. She dug through her luggage searching for that water stone she packed just in case. She found it, ran back and threw the water stone at Shellder. Unfortunately, Gyarados was moving too much in her attempt to find the strength to crush Shellder and the water stone fell to the sea.
Full of determination, Delia dived after it, retrieving the water stone while Shellder still kept Gyarados busy. She surfaced and climbed on to Gyarados' body where she held Giovanni.
Angered, Gyarados prepared to use a hyper beam, trying to take out the traitorous Shellder that sided with humans and the troublesome humans all at once. When Gyarados aimed, Delia took the opportunity to throw the water stone at Shellder, causing him to evolve into Cloyster. "Aurora beam!"
Cloyster broke free of Gyarados' grip and attacked, defeating the larger pokemon. As Gyarados fell, seemingly unconscious, Delia and Giovanni struggled not to be trapped under her heavy body while Cloyster helped them get to shore.
"Thank you Cloyster, you saved our lives," Delia gave the pokemon her sincere gratitude as she hugged him. "What do you say?" She paused and waited for Giovanni to speak, but he only looked puzzled, "say thank you to Cloyster, he saved our lives!"
"I'm not in the mood to argue, thank you Cloyster," Giovanni couldn't believe what he was saying, though he didn't care too much, it was just to keep Delia calm because he really wasn't in the mood to argue right now.
"Well, it seems Gyarados will need a long rest, we'll be fine for a while. You've done very well; come rest in your pokeball," Delia searched around for the pokeball on the beach and potted it half buried in the sand. "Cloyster, return!"
"That was close; I didn't think there would be wild Gyarados in this beach."
"She was looking for shelter, or vengeance. But she's gone now," Delia felt herself start to cry again, how many had passed away like this.
She noticed Giovanni's confused look, "why are you crying? We're safe now, and you were very brave."
"She's dead; the Gyarados is dead, not just fainted. I didn't want Cloyster to feel bad to I pretended she just passed out and called him to his pokeball so he wouldn't know. She was fighting the virus, she was weak from it. Cloyster is very strong I'm sure, but to take out a Gyarados capable of using hyper beam in one hit right after evolving? Maybe what really makes Cloyster so strong is that he was able to stay healthy."
Giovanni looked at the still Gyarados. She really was dead, that virus was more powerful than anyone thought. He wondered if it would end up wiping out the existence of pokemon completely. He didn't say that to Delia, she was upset enough as it was. He hugged her and allowed her to get her frustration and sadness out of her system, she had been very helpful after all.
They stayed like that for some time, until Delia calmed down. "I want to take sand and water samples; I also want to sample Gyarados scales and a blood sample. I want to send these samples to Professor Oak; I assure you I won't mention Team Rocket. He thinks I'm traveling around doing research so this won't seem odd, all the opposite, he might find it odd if I don't share anything from my research with him."
"Alright, I'll trust you to keep Team Rocket a secret," he could trust her, he somehow knew it. "I'll help you get the samples; we better leave after we're done." Delia's connections might prove useful as well.
They quietly got to work collecting the needed samples. While they worked a Krabby approached them and they noted it looked healthy. The pokemon opposed no resistance to being caught by Delia, as if he had witnessed Cloyster's strength and wished to be trained too.
After the samples were collected, they were packed up, ready to be delivered to Professor Oak. They changed into normal clothes that didn't identify them as being part of Team Rocket and went on their way to Pallet Town.
To be Continued
Disclaimer, I don't own Pokemon.
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