Rocket: The Prequel

Arman C.

High lab on cliff from top view with R painted on it, nighttime.
Show Scientists working in the ominous factory, with large egg surrounded by mechanisms.  Egg starts to crack which triggers alarm.
Hundreds of Scientists horde out of building.  Bright light flashes. Science lab explodes knocking scientists off the cliff into the sea.

Text: 40 years later...
Background: Huge multi-paneled window behind man revealing a stormycity.

Bulky man with a suit on leans back in his chair. Phone rings.  Bulky man picks up.

Scientist on phone "Roberto.. remember that impossible... scenario that we predicted ...that couldn't happen?"

Roberto (Bulky Man) "Yes?"

Scientist on phone "Our..definition of impossible just...changed"

Scene change

Background: Helicopters with R on them fly around a lush semi-tropical mountain, while tankers and various other automotives cover the foothill of the mountain.
Roberto's helicopter lands and he gets out.  A man comes up to Roberto with a black suit with R painted on it and a somewhat Mafioso cap.

Man "Roberto, I'd like you to meet two workers in sector D. Your mining operation."

Man "Meet Jessie and James. They were the ones who found our little hazard"

Roberto speaks directed at Jessie. "Hello there."

Jessie "Oh..Heh..Hello... 

Boss"Roberto "Please, call me Roberto."

Jessie "Please..pleased to me..meet you"

Roberto with a grin on his face. "And you must be James"

James "Yessir..I mean..Yes, Roberto"

Roberto "Well, by team Rocket policy, I must promote you two to lieutenants."

Man "Sir, aren't they a bit too young? They're only seventeen."

Roberto "Point taken. Well, I suppose we could still let them be promoted, it would do no harm to us. Rocket never fails, and just two rookies aren't going to collapse
our success."

Roberto speaks back to Jessie and James. "Well, You will receive your lieutenant uniforms shortly. Now, back to the problem."

Roberto continues "So during our phosphate mining, you say you heard a vague 'meew'. Correct?"

Jessie and James "Yes"

Roberto "And you heard this sound coming from this cavern which stands before us?"

Jessie and James "Yes"

Roberto pauses to scratch his beard, then continues "Later on, one of the men that was mining with you went to check out the noise. Afterwards, you suddenly 
witnessed a bright flash, and a gruesome scream. That’s when you ran out of the cavern, along with the rest of your troop, and immediately stopped at a nearby video 
phone to alert Rocket officials. Yes?

Jessie and James "Yessir"

Roberto "I see"

Roberto looks like grim death and turns pale.  Roberto walks over to his helicopter, than opens a cellular phone.

Roberto talking through phone "My son, Giovanni, you must come to Cerulean now. We have a crisis."

Text: Later..

Helicopter landing by lush, green, tropical  foothills of mountain.

A young man (Namely Giovanni), about the age of twenty, wearing a black suit with sunglasses, comes out of the helicopter.

Giovanni "Well, father, I see that your "perfect pokèmon" is indeed what it was cracked up to be- A monster."

Roberto "Don’t toy with me, child. If it weren’t for the Mew project, you wouldn’t be a proud member of Rocket right now."

Giovanni "Proud? Ha. The vain life I live is shallow and superficial. What is a rich man, when the richness isn’t earned."

Roberto "Don’t start, Giovanni."

Giovanni "Mob wars are hardly what I would call ‘earnings’. In fact, the most ironic thing is that what you call earnings, most call manslaughter."

Roberto "I didn’t call you here to chat about your horrid life with a richer Mafia than the Yakuza. You posses the ability to capture it."

Giovanni  "How’s that?"

Roberto "If I die, you will have the plans for the master ball, so you will be the only one who can access them."

Giovanni "But father, what if our arch rival gang SILPH steals the plans?"

Roberto "Do not worry, my son, they have no power compared to us."

Text: A Rocket encampment nearby….

James "I don’t believe we’ve been promoted! And we get these white suits too! I never did look good in black, you know."

Jessie "Don’t get cocky, James, we still only have one pokèmon…"

Meowth "Meowth!"

Meowth "Meowth, Meowth Meot-Meoth!"

James "If pokèmon could talk."

Jessie whacks James.

Jessie "Stop daydreaming!"

James "Sorry.."

Ruffling in bushes.

James "Did you hear that?

Suddenly a little girl runs by, through the camp and into the cave giggling.

Jessie "Guards! an innocent citizen just ran through here and into the cave! Aren’t you going to do something?!"

Guards sitting by a tent with their shoes off and a low table with teaand rice.

Jessie "I guess we’ll have to get her out of here ourselves.."

James "Couldn’t I have tea with the guards first?"

Jessie whacks James.

Jessie "C’mon, James, if that little girl tells anyone about us being here, the boss is going to massacre us!"

Jessie and James load a large tubular gun with powder.  Jessie and James start to run into the cave.

James, while sprinting through the cave "We don’t want to blast the girl.. Do we?"

Jessie, while sprinting through the cave "No. Having a big gun is that much more intimidating."

James, while sprinting through the cave "Oh…"

In the obscurity, James trips and tumbles down a cavern, grabbing Jessie’s hand and pulling her with him.  Jessie and James scream as they hit the unusually 
damp floor.

James "Are you okay?"

Jessie whacks James "What do you think?!"

Meowth "Meowth! Meow-Meowth!"

James "I think it’s trying to tell us something."

Meowth points to a faint bright light in the distance.

James "Okay, Meowth, lead us to it."

Text: Moments later…

Huge glowing egg sits on rock.

James "Wha-What is it?"

Jessie pulls out a mallet "We’ll just have to find out!"

Jessie slams the mallet on to the egg, spraying Meowth with green goo.

Meowth "Meeeooowth! Me-owth  I owth!  Ewowth!  Ahhh! I’m covered in muck! My beautiful coat is ruined!"

James "Oh my…. Jessie, am I going insane? Is Meowth talking?!"

Mewoth "Ya better believe it, bud. This coat ain’t nothin’ to luagh about."

Jessie "I think weirder things are happening, James.."

A giant pokèmon bursts out of the cracked egg.

Pokèmon "Mewwwwtoooo!"

Suddenly, from behind a stalagmite, another glowing pokèmon emerges "Mewwww!"

Jessie screams and jumps into James’ arms.

James "Well hello there.."

Jessie whacks James and jumps out of his arms, then grabbing the gun.

Jessie "James, time for some good old fashioned Rocket philosophy.. Blast now, think later."

Jessie shoots the gun and hits one of the pokèmon dead-on.

James "It didn’t even effect it! We’re doomed!"

Suddely Roberto and Giovanni, along with some other troops dropped in through a rope from a higher cave floor.

Roberto "While my men were scanning the area, they heard your screams. Now we’re here."

Roberto "To protect the world from devastation"

Giovanni "To unite all people’s within our nation"

Roberto "To extend our reach to the stars above!"

Suddenly,  one of the pokèmon jumps on Roberto, sending them into a flailing battle of predator versus prey.

Roberto "Someone get the tazers!"

Before anyone could, the pokèmon slashed Roberto, sending him falling down a cliff.

Giovanni "Father, No!"

The pokèmon ran back into the cave,  giving blood curdling screams.  Giovanni falls to his knees crying as the chaos ended.

Text: One year later…

Background: Huge multi-paneled window behind man revealing a stormycity.

Giovanni sitting in chair. Phone rings. Giovanni picks up.

Person on phone "We, Silph, have found your father’s body, and the plans for the master ball. To the public, we are the friendly pokèball producing corporation. 
You have failed, and you can thank your rookie scouts ‘Jessie’ and ‘James’ for it"

The man on the phone luaghs maniacally, then hangs up.