SURVIVAL IS A PRIORITY?

KABOOOOOOOOM

CRASH

BOOOOOOOM

Sounds of large explosions and shouting accompanied by the noise of Pokemon fighting. He heard the guards in the room running towards the action.

Lan slowly peeked through the door and saw smoke coming from down the hall. He quickly went back into the room and said to Cyndiquill. "We need to get out of here and the best way for me to do that is for you to come with me. He then held out a Pokeball to the pokemon who was still struggling touched it and the ball shook three times until it clicked indicating it was caught.

Lan immediately made his way out of the room and towards the opposite direction of the explosions. He enhanced his entire body and sped up leaving behind an almost invisible array of sparks. He made his way to a clearing where there were multiple warehouses. He then heard shouting from a battle.

Manager "Team Rocket!!!! You will not get away with this. Our SHADOW Auction house has always remained neutral."

"HAHA is that so?

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We don't need a reason to take out your puny Auction house. It just so happens that our boss received some interesting information regarding some goods that interested him. This is NOT including your new shipment could make us a great deal of profit and useful to our plans"

The man who seemed to be in charge gritted his teeth and yelled into his radio "Guards!!! ALL Guards protocol PURPLE!!!!"

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Lan just silently watched everything play out from the rooftop. He saw numerous armed guards rush out of two warehouses and converge at the Manager's position with all of their Pokemon.

Lan eyes widened and his mouth turned into a smirk "If there are so many guards in those two warehouses then I bet there are some important items there. I might as well take a look at what it is in there and might just 'borrow' a little bit as it's better than if Team Rocket got what they wanted."

Lan quickly and quietly snuck past the stream of rushing guards and made his way into the first warehouse. Inside there were many expensive-looking products and Pokemon goods. Including numerous unused Pokeballs of all types and variations. That kind of stuff didn't interest Lan as much as the lone safe in the back of the warehouse. Lan quickly made his way to the unguarded safe. He then concentrated a lot of Aura into his hand and pulled at the door of the safe while digging his fingers into the cracks.

*Kling*

*Kling*

The metal hinges popped off and Lan once again tried to open the metal safe. After 30 seconds of hard work, Lan was getting tired, and eventually, with a loud crash, the door to the safe fell onto the ground.

Inside was stacks and stacks of money rare gemstones and some Cased Pokeballs, a bunch of papers, and Four Pokemon eggs. He just put everything except the stones in his inventory but got a message from the system.

*DING*

MONEY ADDED TO ACCOUNT BALANCE:

TRAINER ACCT: 274.560 P - 120.000 {Rocks} = 154.560 P

SYSTEM ACCT: 478.000 P + 1.900.480 = 2.378.480 P

(REMOVED FROM LINKED BAG)

://INVENTORY LV3: INSSUFICIANT to Store POKEMON EGGS PLEASE UPGRADE

COST: 100.000 P

UPGRADE BOTH FUNCTIONS TO LV5!! QUICK

*DING*

*DING*

*DING*

*DING*

://UPGRADES COMPLETED

://ANALYSIS LV4: NOW ABLE TO SEE POKEMON MOVES

://INVENTORY LV4: INVENTORY IS NOW 3M x 3M

://ANALYSIS LV5: ABLE TO ANALYZE POKEMON WITHIN 3M

://INVENTORY LV5: INVENTORY CAN NOW TEMPERAIRLY STORE POKEMON EGGS

**WARNING EGGS ARE PUT IN STASIS AND WILL NOT GROW. EGGS ARE ONLY ALLOWED TO BE PLACED IN STASIUS FOR 3 WEEKS OR THE EGG WILL PERISH**

"Good to Know. Now store them! The eggs disappeared and Lan immediately turned around to search for an escape route. He knew he didn't have much time and Aura left so he needed to escape.

He then maneuvered around till he heard a lot of people coming to the warehouse that he was about to leave. Lan circulated his Aura to his feet and jumped like a mad man. After a couple of moments he made it to the top of the other warehouse while intensely sweating and his body trembling.

Lan's enhanced hearing picked up a conversation between what he assumed was two team rocket grunts.

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Grunt 1 " I don't know why we have to protect this warehouse why the others get to fight."

Grunt 2 " What do you know this job is important the warehouse has a lot of expensive things in it"

Grunt 1 " Yeah right it is supposed to just be a bunch of vehicles"

Grunt 2 "But those are important to our boss. He said if we do our job right we can get a new jeep for our team to carry out missions."

Grunt 1" Wow really?"

Grunt2 "Yeah there is supposed to be a new shipment of vehicles in there and if there is anything that Team Rocket cant use we will just sell it and earn money to get stronger Pokemon."

Grunt 1 "Yeah that would be nice all I have is my first pokemon given when I started out"

Grunt 2 "That nasty Grimler?"

Grunt 1 "Yeah it would be nice to have a Zubat or an Ekans at least their evolved forms are powerful."

Grunt 2"Where are the reinforcements? They should be here by now"

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Lan smirked and gave into his greed. He knew that if he got a good vehicle he would have a better chance of getting away so without any hesitation he snuck into the warehouse. He definitely needed an escape vehicle as his aura was going to run out and it was a long way back to Pallet Town since he didn't really plan that much ahead.

Entering the last warehouse, Once again he was stunned at what he saw. "These guys are too Rich!!"

This warehouse was a lot larger than the previous one. In the front near the entrance that the goons where guarding there where four rows of brand new offroading Jeeps the same brand that Lan had seen just yesterday in the high-end showroom. Behind the off-road vehicles were two lines of high-end sports Cars and automobiles followed by many different boats and hot air balloons.

"Man there is some expensive stuff here. Too bad my inventory space is so small." Lan said with a slight smirk.

He then hopped down and started to explore the various vehicles. He hopped into a couple of sports cars and decided that they were not for him. He also didn't find any keys. He had previously learned to hotwire vehicles for ' personal reasons' but decided that he wanted to keep a vehicle even after his escape.

After what seemed the longest time he made his way to the rear of the warehouse avoiding the hidden alarms and such.

Lan finally found the back corner office where the keys where stored. In the space just in front of the office was where twenty or more Brand New Motorcycles where parked. Most of them were very flashy and boldly colored which didn't suit his taste.

Eventually, Lan's eyes lit up as it saw something that definitely suited his taste. He quickly entered the office and started to silently remove the keys without tripping the alarms.

Lan heard the large front warehouse door pulled open.

A SIREN blared in the Wharehouse.

"INTRUDER"

"INTRUDER"

"Sh**, Those **** are here." Lan could hear hundreds of voices coming his way.

He immediately grabbed the keys to the Black Ducati Diavel 1260.

Luckily there were no personal alarms on the bikes. He looked back at the people who were now flooding the warehouse. Being spotted by one of the Vanguards he started to get nervous.

He heard "YOU STOP RIGHT THERE!!! THAT IS NOW TEAM ROCKET PROPERTY!!!"

Lan smiled and with some false bravado, turned around putting some of the last Aura into his mask and while speaking loudly,

"THANK YOU ALL FOR THIS WONDERFULL OPPORTUNITY!!"

All the rushing Grunts stopped and stared at the man in the mask and cloak.

As Lan continued "I SINCERELY GIVE MY UTMOST THANKS TO THE GLORIOUS TEAM ROCKET!!!" pausing for the desired effect.

"YOU ALL HAVE A SPECIAL PLACE IN MY HEART AND I AM SURE WE WILL MEET AGAIN."

A Team Rocket member who was dressed in a higher quality outfit than the ones surrounding him stepped to face Lan as he snapped out of the mass confusion. "Go Houndoom GO CROBAT KILL HIM. NO ONE MAKES FUN OF TEAM ROCKET"

Lan smirked and enhanced his voice "NOW IT IS TIME FOR I ... THE GREAT ...PHANTOM, 'yeah that sounds good' ; TO MAKE A GREAT ESCAPE!!."

Lan immediately stored the motorcycle into his inventory and flooded his system with the last of his aura and jumped.

A huge flame hit where Lan just stood and it engulfed all of the vehicles in the area. Meanwhile, Lan tried to advoid Crobat 's numerous air slashes and the other low-level pokemon attacks.

He quickly leaped up to the upper-level balcony while dodging all that he could and quickly jumped through the window. Right before Lan broke out he felt two large slashes connect with his back. They hurt terribly but propelled him through the window and sent him farther into the dark night.

*Crash*

Lan landed and formed a small crater causing him to spit out a lot of blood. He could feel his back spewing blood and he was quickly lost his remaining strength causing his eyesight to turn fuzzy.

He heard yelling getting Louder and Louder but it quickly dampened as Lan desperately struggled to stand. However, it was no use as his vision completely turned dark.

Team Rocket rushed after him but once they caught sight of their collapsed target they saw him just disappear into many lights.

The Leader screamed "Damn You PHANTOM No one makes a mockery of Team ROCKET. The next time we meet I will personally kill you and feed your bones to my Pokemon!"

Silence engulfed the area with the ringing of explosions and battles in the background

The leader took a moment to breathe and settle himself while commanding"Men gather the remaining goods quickly before things get out of our control."

Unknown to anyone on Lan's chest a mark appeared that pulsed with a silver and black light. (Mark looks like Waver Mark from Fate Zero)

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Thousands of miles away deep within the depths of the ocean a dark spherical object started to grow and emit a black light. It was dim but got stronger and started to pulse in tandem with Lan's mark. The area around the object seemed to grow darker with each passing second then it abruptly went silent.

Seconds later an invisible pulse was sent out and a small crack could be seen on the surface of the object. A small amount of pitch-black smoke started to rise to the surface.

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