Pepper

## Lee Way (Pepper)

Lee Way (a,k.a. Pepper), one of the Brigadiers of the Dirty Delinquents, as a drawing and colored by me.

### Occupation

Dirty Delinquents Brigadier,Dirty Delinquent Senior Head, Antagonist

## Other

### Appearance

Pokemon: Beginnings - Chapter 24: Genetics Lab

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**Lee Way** (Dirty Delinquent name **Pepper**) is a Pokemon character that appears in Pokemon: Beginnings. He is one of the Brigadiers of the Dirty Delinquents and is considered to be the Senior Head's right hand. He is also the brother of Salt (Chan Way), another Brigadier among the ranks and is the main antagonist of the Dirty Delinquents arc. Born in the Brawling Country where cities were in ruins and Pokemon were fighting amongst themselves in a civil war, he and Chan Way had to do whatever they could to survive.

## Physical Appearance

Lee Way appears as a reddish-orange Hitmonlee with an unusual blond mohawk-style hair and blue eyes, and wears the gray Brigadier's cloak.

Without the cloak, his body reveals past bruises and scars, most of which came from the fights he and Chan Way had to endure with him doing most of the work.

## Origin of Name

Lee Way's name is based on the phrase "leeway", which is the amount of freedom to move or act that is possible. His name may also be similar in the way of how some Chinese people are named without any significance behind it.

## Personality

Lee Way is considered to be a more reserved individual, yet this is considered to be part of his "facade". Unlike most members of the Dirty Delinquents, Lee Way does not address the Senior Head as such by the title and will either call him "leader", or "Senior idiot". He also has a tendency to want to watch places burn, somewhat indicating a darker nature to him as he would sometimes say it casually. He also enjoys fighting, as during his years as a Tyrogue, he had gotten into more fights with the sole purpose of enjoying Pokemon being beaten to near death. This is clearly shown when he and Happy fight for the first time, as both of them share similar passions, although Happy fights more for fun instead of suffering and pleasure.

Around Chan Way, he is somewhat tolerant to his brother, but should he stand in the way of his goal, he wouldn't hesitate to kill him. When revealed to be going around to destroy the world, he threatened to kill his own brother if he didn't move out of his way. As a result of this, it reveals his true nature to be cold and heartless, not even caring about those he serve under or not showing any remorse to who he kills as he utilized three of the organization's most powerful projects (Annihilator, Ogre Darner & HX-1), other than Project Meta to do his bidding.

## Powers & Abilities

### Powers

* **Counter** - Punches the opponent when they move.
* **Close Combat** - Rapidly punches an opponent as they are close to him without any signs of guarding himself.
* **Feint Attack** - A move that a regular Hitmonlee cannot learn under any circumstances. However, given Lee Way's background with his brother, this move was possible for him to learn. Disappears from sight and reappears out of nowhere to kick an opponent.
* **Agility** - A move that is strangely not learned by a regular Hitmonlee in any of the games so far. Lee Way just jumps in place to loosen the ligaments in his springy legs, allowing for faster movement.
* **Stone Edge** - Places two hands to the ground to summon stone-like pillars in a linear path.
* **Thunder Punch** - Throws an electrified punch at an opponent. Can also extend his springy arms to hit airborne opponents.
* **High Jump Kick** - Recoils himself to bounce up and knees the opponent in the air.
* **Spring Kick** - Lee Way's signature move, or rather any kind of Hitmonlee's signature move not really in the mainline games. His legs stretch like a spring, with his feet capable of reaching even airborne opponents.

He has an unused move, which is Revenge. It was forgotten during the writing process.

### Abilities

Lee Way, like any Hitmonlee, is capable of extending his arms and legs like springs, which not only gives him an advantage amongst grounded opponents, but also airborne ones. He is capable of learning moves that are not possible under any means for a regular Hitmonlee. His ability is "Limber", which prevents paralysis, but was never mentioned nor demonstrated in the story.

## Overview

During the brothers' first appearance, Lee Way was giving a report to the Senior Head of a small cargo from an island that would be shipped to the Dirty Delinquent Headquarters within an hour. As they are dismissed to continue their duties, the brothers briefly talk to one another, with Lee Way getting other bases prepared for incognito on Glopol, and isn't seen again until he and the Senior Head make their way to the Terrabenie to abolish laws, jobs and money from the world. There, Lee Way takes on many other guards at the Pokemon World Government's palace and leaves with the Senior Head after he accomplished his goal, heading back to the base on Ogre Darner together.

During their trip home, they met Lasanne, who snuck onboard without even letting them detect her presence. Another place they stopped at was when Barbeque spotted Doctor Sorbet's corpse, which infuriates him and rushes Ogre Darner home to murder the ones that killed him. Two days later, Lee Way, Lasanne and Barbeque along with Ogre Darner had reached the headquarters, with Barbeque assigning Lee Way to catch the fleeing traitor Major Cinnamon inside the base whilst he dealt with the Pokemon escapees. He is then assisted by his brother Chan Way in doing so, where they caught up to her in Block N, which was the Nursery room.

Despite her evasiveness out of the room, Cinnamon was successfully caught due to the brothers' teamwork, throwing her in Block X's holding facility where Moody, Zamenza, Unhaus, Tanner and the rest of the Pokken Arts Fighters were. After the Senior Head's defeat at the hands of the escapees' usage of two Zap Cannons, Lee Way along with Lasanne escorted him to Block H whilst Chan Way buried Doctor Sorbet's body. Whilst there, Parfait gives the brothers information on the late doctor's latest invention located in his lab, which was the HX-1 and entrusted them to use it. Thanks to a scientist in P-2.0's room, he led them to the late doctor's room where Lee Way retrieved it for himself from the desk including the blueprints for it.

A week later from a backstab by the Pokemon World Governemnt as they secretly planned to restore the world from Dirty Delinquent control, Barbeque recovers and leads the brothers along with Lasanne to Block X to vent out his anger, where they were to witness Lasanne kill Cinnamon. Lee Way himself didn't have much to say on it, but some days after her departure, Lee Way snuck into Barbeque's room and shot him with a pistol, to the dismay of being caught by Hummus and more shockingly, his brother. He showed no remorse in doing so and declared himself as the new Senior Head of the Dirty Delinquents.

Moments later as Chan Way made his way to the Genetics Lab to retrieve Annihilator 2.0, it is revealed that Lee Way was the one to brutally beat and kill the scientists as well as taking Annihilator 2.0, along with Ogre Darner to do his deed on the world. He took Ogre Darner and Annihilator towards the Brawling Country, which was the place he and Chan Way grew up in and used Ogre Darner to destroy it all with some Hyper Beams, not knowing that the survivors swam away for safety. His next target was the Mithra Kingdom, where he communicated with every Dirty Delinquent member in the world to set fires and should they oppose his vision, they would be shot by others.

After the destruction of the Mithra Kingdom, he targeted the Electric Country until he was intercepted by Military ships. Whilst he intended on using Ogre Darner, the large creature was brought down by an electrified cannonball to its wings, sinking it into the ocean with Lee Way no longer wanting to use it and instead relied on Annihilator to finish the job by destroying most of the ships with Annihilator's Draco Meteor. Before he was about to target another place, he was stopped by Chan Way, but with his harsh words, he even threatened to kill him, forcing Chan Way to back off and ask for help. Little did he know that he was using him to lead him to his biggest obstacles in the name of "liberation".

As he and Annihilator had made it to Fox Village, he wasted no time in attacking, to which the Porygon trio stepped in to protect it, only to be knocked away. With quick thinking, Norman managed to separate both Annihilator and Lee Way, with Zamenza, Moody, Norman and Metalchemist to fight it whilst Lee Way was to attack the village until Happy, Charles, Unhaus and the Porygon trio stepped in. Whilst they were afraid of fighting in the village, Lee Way agrees and they head towards the island where Happy trained under Norman for a battle. Whilst Unhaus was the first to fight, he was unable to land a hit on Lee Way and was paralyzed, forcing him out and leaving it in the hands of the children.

Lee Way went toe to toe with Happy and Charles, proving to be a skillful Pokemon with power packed into it. However, he proposed an idea to Happy in wanting to conquer the world for liberation with him and allowing him to fight to his heart's content, which he refuses. Whilst fighting, he reveals that he had sent some Dirty Delinquent ships towards Fox Village, forcing Unhaus to leave them behind to save it. Seeing that the Porygon trio were more keen to help Happy, Charles and Unhaus, it forced him to switch gears and unveil the HX-1, which proved to be a strong mech fighter as they struggled to even land a hit on it.

To make sure he could secure victory, he absorbed the Porygon trio's energy, rendering them useless throughout the entire ordeal and preventing further aid for Happy and Charles. He showed off the HX-1's weaponry, and wanting to end them faster, he charged up a Megabeam, which blew up the island they were on. However, to his knowledge, he found out that Happy, Charles and the Porygon trio had survived thanks to the aiding party and his Dirty Delinquent subordinates, which he believed his brother was responsible for. Angered, Lee Way fired a large rocket to blow everyone up, only for Zamenza to redirect it back using Psychic, which went past him and blew up in the skies.

Realizing what he was up against after he couldn't do anything more due to using up too much energy, he resorted to one last option, which was flying away. Unsatisfied with his tactical retreat, Happy and Unhaus followed him, with Unhaus tossing Happy to slam through the HX-1, causing all systems to malfuction. As the HX-1 was short-circuiting, Lee Way met his demise as it exploded, ending the psychopathic Senior Head's reign once and for all. He was mentioned briefly at the end by Chan Way, who wanted to separate from his shadow and is declared the new Senior Head by Barbeque himself should he return to base.

## Trivia

* Lee Way, along with his brother Chan Way, are the only two well known members of the organization to be humanoid.
* Since Lee Way's appearance is different from the well-known image of Hitmonlee, if he was to be introduced in such mainline games, another ability he would have is Quick Feet, and a hidden ability would be Moxie, a trait street fighters tend to show.