Ambush

As the raging winds and thunderous roars of lightning stormed through the forest, Landrick slowly and sneakily walked through. The chaos around him didn't stop him from having a wide grin on his face as his eyes, filled with greed, focused on the enormous thunderbird in the sky.

"Almost there… Zapdos, you will be mine" Landrick blurted out loud as he grabbed a pokeball from his pocket.

He called out the pokemon from inside the pokeball. Suddenly, the figure of a purple pokemon with two spherical heads connected by a thin tube with another sphere in the center. Small clouds of poisonous gas surrounded its body as it let out a cry

"Weezing!"

"Let's do this, partner!" Landrick said as his mouth curled up to a genuine smile in front of Weezing.

Weezing was his starter pokemon. He obtained it from the Team Rocket recruitment. Since then, he trained with it and caught other pokemon. He became stronger along with it and successfully completed countless dangerous missions as he climbed through the ranks.

Eventually, he was given the opportunity to become an executive and he straight out grabbed it. Currently, he's an executive but his position isn't stable yet. Most of his subordinates don't have any redeeming qualities while the other executive teams are filled with talents.

When he finally lucked out and got himself a really talented fresh recruit, he turned out to be so outstanding that given time, his position would eventually be threatened. Fortunately, the potential of this fresh recruit was so good that even Giovanni noticed him and transferred him to the special division.

Afterwards, he was given a chance to stabilize his position as a Team Rocket Executive. That would be the mission to capture Zapdos. Failure would mean demotion but he had no room for demotion.

As a newly promoted executive, he had a fair share of enemies within the organization. They would surely target him once they learned of his demotion. There were some vicious members in the organization that would surely sabotage him and his missions.

Therefore, he can't afford to fail this mission. Anyone who gets in his way of completing this mission has their days numbered in his mind.

…

At this time, three figures can be seen running in the forest with the blue figure of a pokemon leading the way.

Naturally, they are the Folker, Chelsea, Farlan, and Lucario as they headed for Landrick's location.

"We're close" Lucario said through telepathy.

"Prepare for battle" Farlan said as he grabbed a pokeball from his hands. Folker and Chelsea nodded and grabbed their pokeballs.

They will be facing a Team Rocket Executive soon and the plan is to gang up on him. Koichi had already exhausted his team and he most likely didn't have any more healthy pokemon left.

Not only would they gang up on him, they would also do so sneakily. It doesn't matter how strong Landrick is as a trainer. In front of their carefully laid out plan, he can only wait for Zapdos' assault.

They only have to watch out for some unknown high tech device. After all, as an executive of the largest criminal organization in the world, he doesn't lack any of those high tech devices.

Shortly afterwards, Lucario stopped and opened its eyes.

"Up ahead is Landrick… He's with a powerful pokemon" Lucario said through telepathy.

"Doesn't matter how powerful he is. We just have to hold him down and send a signal to Zapdos" Farlan said.

The trio then nodded and crouched down as they silently approached Landrick.

…

Currently, Landrick was walking through the forest when suddenly, he felt uneasy. He then looked at Weezing who just floated in front of him. Weezing looked back and nodded.

Suddenly, Landrick's eyes lit up.

"Weezing, [Smokescreen]" Landrick said.

Weezing let out a sharp cry and exhaled an obscuring cloud of smoke around it.

It was then that a blue ball of light shot through the cloud of smoke from the bushes. It was followed by embers of flames from a different direction.

"Weezing!"

The Poison type pokemon turned around, looking worried.

"Don't worry. I'm okay" a voice rang out. Weezing recognized the voice and heaved a sigh of relief.

When the cloud of obscuring smoke cleared, the figure of an unharmed Landrick was revealed.

'The attacks came from different directions. It's difficult to coordinate attacks when hidden, their number must not be less than two. Humph, regardless of their numbers, I'll pulverize them all the same' Landrick sneered in his mind.

Weezing let out an angry cry. To think that his trainer would actually be targeted instead of it. Such an underhanded tactic, those ambushers deserve death!

"Who are you? Reveal yourselves" Landrick shouted with a dark expression on his face.

However, silence followed afterwards.

"Humph! I knew you wouldn't reveal yourselves!" Landrick said with a mocking tone.

He then grabbed a gas mask from his bag and shouted "Weezing, use [Poison Gas]".

As a trainer with multiple poison type pokemon in his team, having a gas mask is a must. Otherwise, he would die by his own pokemon.

Weezing then sprayed a cloud of poisonous gas around it and spread it around the forest. The raging winds blew the poisonous gas away but Weezing didn't stop spreading it around.

However, the ambushers still didn't reveal themselves.

"Now, use [Sludge Bomb] and spread it in that direction" Landrick shouted.

Weezing then hurled a filthy sludge in the northern direction and spread it.

Suddenly, a ball of blue light and embers shot through, threatening to annihilate Weezing. However, Landrick's lips curled up to a lopsided smile.

"[Protect]" Landrick said.

Just when the ball of blue light was about to hit their target, a small glass-like wall revealed itself and protected Weezing.

"Now, use [Thunderbolt] in that direction!" Landrick said as he pointed towards a certain direction.

Weezing then let loose a strong electric blast towards the direction that Landrick pointed at.

The [Thunderbolt] was then met with a blue ball of light and disappeared. The figure of Lucario was then revealed afterwards.

"Finally revealed yourself, huh?" Landrick sneered.

However, once more, he was met with silence. His mocking expression then turned into a puzzled one.

"Where's your trainer?" Landrick said.

...

[Author's note]

Sorry for the lack of updates. I was not sick or anything. I was an intern but not particularly busy. I was just being lazy. This time, I just graduated and was promoted to jobless rank in life. One of the privileges that come with being jobless is that I have a shit ton of free time so I might as well write.