From: Black Hole the Walrus (lanceisnot@home.com) Subject: [PW!] Black Hole Sun, Won't You Come Newsgroups: alt.games.nintendo.pokemon Date: 2000/05/30 It were all too soon before Black Hole had seen ATR again. He remembered when he traveled to the island that concealed ATR's base. There he made "short work" of one of the ATR officers and exited. Now he must pay them another visit. "Sir Black Hole," a rookie ran up to the armor clad man, "Giovanni has a mission for you." Black Hole nodded and started in the direction of the local base of operations on Cinnabar, thinking about the blood he has shed over the years and then the transformations that he had gone through for the sake of Team Rocket. Black Hole than realized that he was at the base, which was deep in a cavern, hidden from any normal man's view. He activated the screen and checked his mail. "Incredible technology and they can't install an e-mail alert or a Spam filter. What kind of idiot needs 2000 ways to get rich quick?? BH snickered as the name 'Car'tos' came to mind, and then he then began searching through the messages. He finally found said message and sighed, "This had better be important." The video popped onto the screen, "Black Hole, you have been chosen to lead a raid on Ivory Island, which holds one of ATR's bases. We have your troops already they're disguised as scientists and will ambush the ATR when the helicopter concealing two new recruits lands." Giovanni continues, "Out Intelligence reports that the two recruits are 'Pokéman', a so-called super hero and Estro, Estro is your main target. He quit Team Rocket and has joined Anti-Team Rocket. This former member is your main target. He knows the interior of our base, so he must be disposed of this traitor. A transport will be sent as soon as this message is completed." Black Hole closed the window and walked out of the cavern, "Estro, eh? A worthy opponent, I suppose." Black Hole stood at the coast, staring out at the sea, "We shall complete this seemingly endless battle with ATR." A boat appeared into view off the horizon, clearly, you could see there were 2 people in the boat one human and one was clearly not human. As the boat neared, wings became visible on the creature. "What is that?" Black Hole thought to himself as the boat approached the coast. As the boat drew closer, BH could make out a golden pike, which the creature clutched. "Tie'Nek," BH muttered under his breath, remembering that fool Car'Tos. The boat docked and soon enough they were on their way. The Tie'Nek continuously glanced at Black Hole and the young rookie that was piloting the boat. "I suppose you two know what the plan is," said the Tie'Nek, "because I sure as hell don't know what's going on." Black Hole peered at the Tie'Nek out the corner of his eye, "All will be revealed soon enough." There was a long silence and then the rookie piped up, "My name's Alistar, who are you?" The Tie'Nek muttered under his breath, "Karusotu". The two looked at Black Hole, "Names are not important as what is at hand. You will understand all in good time." They arrived at the island and traveled through the dense forests to rendezvous with the undercover Team Rocket agents at Raven's Nest, the main control room. "As you all know," Black Hole began, "This base was raided a couple weeks back by our undercover agents. They then locked the ATR in the basement of this very base." "For you who don't know, I am Black Hole, and I am in command for this battle, if you do what I say it will reduce the chances of you winding up dead," Black Hole added, "Our plan is to find and destroy the leader and to make sure Estro doesn't have the chance to leak any information." He then turned to the leader of the undercover unit, "What does this base have in the way of heavy weaponry?" The leader laughed a bit, "This place is more guarded than Fort Knox, its got all kinds of stuff in the armory. I think I saw a rocket launcher in there." "Excellent. I must warn you, with Estro is Pokéman, a 'super hero' and should be considered dangerous if he is sane. Karusotu, you are in charge of the unit in the base. I and Alistar will travel into a clearing and prepare the launcher." Alistar and Black Hole retrieved a rocket launcher from the armory, "I didn't realize that our enemies have this much weaponry," said Alistar in awe. "We'll need to make sure it can't be used against us." The two moved through the darkness, into the dense forest, and out into a large clearing and set up the rocket launcher. "They'll never know what hit them," BH thought. "I hope that this plan works," said Alistar ", this is my first mission in which I wasn't only observing." The rookie grinned and glanced at BH. "Keep your guard up. If all goes well as planned we'll be out of here soon enough." Alistar returned to his watch, but the two didn't have any idea what they were getting into... TBC