It was a beautiful day in Vermillian, the sun was shining the birds were flying, the ships were sailing on the

sea, and pokémon were fighting. Yes as usual the blood thirsty tendencies of pokémon trainers was still

completely at a max. The sounds of electrical zaps came from Lt surge's gym, they lighted up the windows

every now and again. Many trainers were walking through Virmillian every day to travel to Johto or head to

Saphron. The capital city Sapphron attracted the attention with it's neighbour Celadon city.

One of these trainers was a small boy from Pallet town. He was called Ash Ketchum, and he was

aiming to be the greatest pokémon trainer in the whole world. He had the face of a angle and the voice of a

kid who had smoked a thousand cigarettes a day for two years. (This may explain why he never gained

some height, or his pikachu evolve).

Ketchum was the kindest trainer in the world, his favourite pokémon was his pikachu which smiled

adoringly up at him. Ash had a small cap on his head and a rucksack attached to his back, in the rucksack he

had a whole list of items he had never bothered to purchase but which seemed to be there anyway.

His pikachu sat adoringly on his shoulder as he walked across the bank of the sea. With him were two

of his greatest friends, Brock. A Rock hard trainer and gym master from Pewter, and Misty, a water

pokémon trainer and gym master from Cerulian. Ash himself didn't have a gym. But sitting in a stinky

building all day for not very much money and losing most of the time isn't most people's favourite hobby.

Misty had orangey hair, which was tied back in pigtails. It looked slightly messy with a few split ends

that day. Brock's was spiky and simple and stuck up, his eyes narrow slits in his head. He had a darker skin

couler than his friends. They had all joined Ash for their own reasons, and hopefully through their journey

together they might have eventually solved their problems.

Misty stopped and looked at the waves for a few seconds.

"So Ash" murmured Misty "where are we heading next?"

Ash paused. He had been travelling for a long time now with his friends but he just hadn't thought

about that next question. They had been all over Kanto, seen the sights done everything. They could re visit

a place, but where? Suddenly it came to him, the capital!

"Let's go to Sapphron!" exclaimed Ash "see the delights of the capital. The silph co building and it's

research! We could visit the Azure heights level!"

"I guess that could be fun" murmured Brock "I remember a lovely gym near there in Celadon"

Brock stopped and started gaping.

"Brock!" Complained Misty "come on!… Urggh!"

Slowly he staggered forward after Misty. The gym leader of Celadon happened to be full of women

trainers who liked to look nice. Beautiful women, however was one of Brock's weak points.

"It's such a nice day" murmured Ash

"It would be if Brock would hurry up!" complained Misty

"Today's the kind of day" started Ash "that absolutely nothing can go wrong on, no stress, no

annoyance, no trouble…"

"Double trouble there will be!"

"Sorry Misty?" replied Ash turning around

"Wasn't me Ash" muttered Misty looking for the source. Brock ran up to the others.

A shadow past over them suddenly. Ash looked up to see a gigantic metal smooth hover craft fly over

their heads and hover in front of them.

"What the heck is that!" exclaimed Brock looking up

The glass covering of the cockpit slowly rose up on electronic hinges.

"Prepare for trouble!" said a boy with blue hair

"And make that double!" continued his feminine accomplice who had long flowing red.

Immediately the continued into a long flowing motto that they had learned by heart.

"To protect the world from devastation!"

"To unite all people within are nation!"

"To denounce the evils of truth and love!"

"To extend are reach to the stars above!"

"Jessie!" exclaimed the girl

"James!" followed the boy with blue hair. They continued in unison.

"Team rocket blast off at the speed of light! Surrender now or prepare to fight!"

"That's right!" shouted a Meouth pokémon leaping up from behind them. The two people had white t

shirts on them which had a big R painted in red on them.

"Oh no" moaned Ash ",it's these losers again"

"Your not gonna ruin are day!" shouted Misty

"We didn't want to anyway" said Jessie "We just wanted to ruin it for your pokémon! James! Pull the

lever!"

A second later the glass shutter came down again with a slam. Suddenly pokéballs shot out of funnels

either side of the wings towards pikachu.

"Pikachu!" exclaimed Ash but it was too late. Pikachu dissapered in a flash of white light. A

electronic hand wrenched forward and picked up the pokéball just before Ash could stop it.

"Don't worry Ash!" exclaimed Brock jumping forward "let's see how they handle one of my

pokémon!"

As fast as he could Brock took out a pokéball and through it forward. It flashed red and a onix came

out. Onix a giant rock snake stretched forward at the ready.

"Onix! Use rock throw!" exclaimed Brock pointing forward.

Onix lifted it's tail slowly and batted some rather large rocks towards the ship. They hit straight on

and knocked a wing off. Sparks flew everywhere and fire leapt out from the sides. Another rock hit the

electronic hand and the pokéball fell to the ground.

Ash hurried forward and thankfully released his pikachu from captivity.

"Pikachu!" exclaimed Ash "use thunder shock attack!"

"I think we're in trouble Jessie" murmured James trying to extinguish fires with a milk shake.

"Shut it!" said Jessie pulling levers here and there "I'm trying to concentrate!"

A few seconds later there was a stream of thunder and the ship exploded backward into the air fire

and sparks going everywhere.

"Looks like team rockets blasting off again!" moaned the three villains as they blasted off into the

sunset. There was a little twinkle and then silence.

"Every time I give you a chance you mess it up, but this time I'm gonna put my foot down for good!

This is the last warning you two! Mess up, and you won't see the light of day again. I'm warning you, I want

that Pikachu, and if you won't get it, I'll kill you my self?"

It was a dark, badly lit room with a low hanging light bulb, on a fragile piece of string. The master

crime boss, head of Rocket the crime organisation sat in a comfy red fabricked chair. In front of him were

two very unreliable subjects. Jessie, a long red haired girl, and James, with untidy blue hair. Both were the

rocket screw ups, who nobody had bothered to get rid of because it took too long and wasn't worth it.

Giovani looked down through the darkness his underlings grovelling before him.

"Yes sir Giovani sir!" squealed James

"Clear as crystal!" squeaked Jessie with a false smile

"I mean it! I don't want anymore bad news. I have bigger fish to fry at the moment, just get rid of Ash

and bring me the pikachu. Now! Get out of my sight before I throw up" shouted Giovanni stroking his pet

persian a little too roughly.

The black uniformed men quickly escorted the two out of the well unlit room to the corridors outside.

They almost booted them out but a little gentler. Meouth was waiting, a small cat pokémon with sharp

claws. The black uniformed men slammed the doors shut and continued with their meeting.

"So, how did it go?" asked Meouth

"We really blew it this time" replied James solemnly

"If we mess up this time the boss is gonna murder us for sure" moaned Jessie

"That's cos you guys don't listen to me enough! I'm the brains around here, how many times ave I said

I've told you so?"

"Meouth" murmured Jessie

"What, can't you see I'm talking here!"

"Shut. Up!"

"Saarry"

"I think, Ash is in Sapphron right now, that's where he was talking about last" said James ",if we're

gonna get that pikachu before next month we might as well start now"

"Did they give us any vehicles this time?" asked Meouth

"No" complained Jessie ", apparently we took most of them already. They're constructing a new lot in

the factories right now"

The two (("criminals")) Jessie and James had a very bad reputation of ruining vehicle while chasing

a trainer's pikachu that the boss had his eyes on. It was commonly known for them to come back with the

remains of a million dollar vehcle and ask for a better one.

"Oh no"said James his head in his hands "I can't stand having to walk all the way there."

"Well you'll just have to unless we find anything else!" informed Jessie irritatingly

"Hey can you people move along!" said a black uniformed rocket pushing everyone aside ",your

crowding the corridor here!"

"Hey!" shouted Jessie who had fallen on her back after being pushed aside ",come back here!"

James and Meouth quickly restrained their colleague while the rocket got away.

"How dare you tell us to move it!" screamed Jessie.

"Calm down Jessie!" said James as passively as he could "he was only trying to get past"

"Yes and he pushed me over on the way!" shouted Jessie sending a echo down the corridor. Suddenly

the double doors to Giovani's chambers slammed open again. A rocket came and walked up to James.

"Will you people SHUT UP! We're having an important meeting here, a valuable pokémon has gone

missing somewhere in Cerulian city and we need quiet!"

"Hey you!" shouted Giovanni from inside the dark room.

"Yes master" replied the rocket a shiver going down his back

"Don't tell those fools anything! They're bound to mess up or do something wrong. Come back here,"

. Slowly Giovanni's eyes turned to Jessie and James "hey clowns! Get going, just remember you've got one

month to return with that pikachu, and if you don't bring it, shik" Geovanni made a decapitation gesture

across his neck "your a waist of time and money, and your a stain on the face of rocket. Now remove your

stinking carcasses out of here before I change my mind and get rid of you now!"

Quickly the rocket slammed the doors shut again entering back into the dark room. Two clouds of

dust shot out as the door slammed shut and it made James cough. Jessie wiped her brow with a sigh of

relief.

"Come on already!" moaned Meouth "let's do what he said!"

Hurrying along the passage the three villains marched along the corridor until they came to the lift.

It was a dingy dirty lift, which had a reputation for braking down. The buttons were old and the

basement one which needed a key had the button missing.

Quickly they entered and Jessie pressed the surface button. The lift started moving at a nice gentle

speed upwards with a soft hum as it went.

"Hey" exclaimed James all of a sudden "haven't we still got the rocket balloon on the top floor?"

The doors opened and Jessie got ready to get out.

"Hey! That's right!" replied Meouth "I think that's still working, we haven't destroyed it by accident

yet!"

"Excuse me" complained a rocket "your blocking the doorway"

Jessie had managed to put her self in a position which crowded the whole lift entrance. Jessie

however was in no mood to let him passed

"Oh" laughed Jessie "so I am" quickly she pressed the top floor and the doors closed

"Hey!!" shouted the rocket banging on the door "you can't do that!"

"You showed him Jessie" said James fiddling with a rose idly.

"That felt good!" murmured Jessie with a smerk. After awhile the doors opened and the group came

out on the roof. The balloon was waiting , tied to the flag stones with a white cord. The rockets jogged over

to get it working. Jessie climbed in first and then Meouth. Quickly James cut the cord which held them to

the ground and the balloon took off. Hurriedly James leaped and grabbed on to the basket edge making the

whole balloon sway violently. Jessie pulled him up before he caused an accident.

The day was just beginning, and the sun was only just coming up as the team left the rocket secret

hide out. Meouth looked over the horizon.

"Sapphron here we come!" exclaimed Meouth waving his paws. They were leaving unknown

territory towards a unknown direction. Meouth looked out with interest at their new attempts and futere

failings. Slowly he waved his paws around again. Unfortunately the way in which he did this happened to

go astray. His claw swung aside and gouged a mark down Jessie's face.

"Why you stupid pokémon!" shouted Jessie smacking Meouth over the head with a large mallet.

"Jessie! Please! Don't kill Meouth now, he's one of the few pokémon we've got!"

What followed was a long struggle.

After awhile James managed to restrain his partner Jessie from throwing Meouth off the balloon

which was much to the happiness of Meouth. They were a silly bunch of people really.

The secret hide out of team rocket was soon left far behind. The day had only just begun and team

rocket was ready for another duel with Ash, the master pokémon trainer. Legend has it that he once beat a

rydon with his pikachu using a strange tactic nobody had ever known or used in existence in the history of

the world.

The day began to get on and James realised that there was going to be trouble ahead this time. While

he stood their he began to think that the only way they would ever defeat that kid would be either a change

of charicter and intelligence or over whelming odds. None of these seemed very likely.

This time however, they had to get the pikachu or Giovanni would get rid of them for good, but

how was it possible in one month? Giovanni had personally shown them their death papers in their meeting

which wasn't very promising for their career.

James didn't really want die at the hands of team rocket, and he didn't want Jessie and Meouth to

either. Though their teamwork was purely business orientated James had grown and affection for the other

two team mates over the years.

They had one month to complete their task, a task they had tried many many times and never ever

succeeded. Every time they had gone out to take pikachu it had failed miserably. The likely hood of them

succeeding was very not likely, but somehow they had to try. The sun shone bright now in the sky as the day

passed.

"This time must be different" murmured Jessie

"What's that?" asked Meouth

"We've gotta win this time" replied Jessie ", it's life or exile"

"Or death" murmured James

"Dontcha guys be such pessimists!" complained Meouth "Your all usually so full of energy for the

task! What's happened to ya?"

"No" said James "Jessie's right, if we don't win this time it's not worth living, I dread to think what

Giovanni will do to us. We're gonna have to give it all we've got. If we don't win , we will lose for good. "

Jessie looked across his team mates, James, how could he die? It was impossible to imagine. And

Meouth was such a cute character in his own way. Team rocket would butcher the two of them if they

failed. James felt inside his pockets.

"Another one?" muttered James. He took a rose out of his pocket and threw it off the balloon

"Well we're certainly not gonna give up are we!" said James

"No way!" exclaimed Jessie", let's make that kid really suffer!"

"We'll never give up!" said James ",this will be are final effort, and it's going to be the best!"

"What's got into you guys? Yave gone all soft on me. We're not in that much of a pickle, are we?

Well I guess we could always flee to Johto if we didn't get that pikachu in time. I hear It's nice in Johto"

The journey to Sapphron was a long one by balloon. It took several hours, morning rolled over to

day, and day to afternoon, to evening to night. The stars came out and James looked up to see them.

They were so pretty. A million million miles across the never ending space, bulging forms of

nuclear gas and Hydrogen. He felt so insignificant, looking up at them. His stomach growled. There was

hardly any food in the balloon and the team had eaten most of it already. But still he felt very hungry,

perhaps he'd have some small morsel left in his pocket?

He felt inside his pockets, the others were asleep. A piece of chewing gum, a pokéball, a leaflet for

joining Cerulian police. How that got there James had no idea what so ever. Carefully he took out a single

rose and looked at it. He just couldn't work out how the things kept getting there, it was a complete mystery

to him.

But still, the thing was so pretty. There was a full moon up in the sky, James held it up the sky and

stared at it. It reminded him of something long ago but he couldn't think what. It was a tv program, about

sailors or something. He cursed him self for being sentimental and then threw it over the edge, the sharp

thorns gleaming in the moonlight.

"Ow!" muttered a faint voice below. Quickly James looked over the edge, it was Sapphron city.

Quickly he woke Meouth and Jessie up and pointed down below.

"We're here!" he exclaimed waving his arms madly down at the sleeping pokémon and human.

Meouth stirred rubbing his eyes with his paws.

"Alright alright" moaned Meouth "I think the whole of Sapphron will know that by now!"

Jessie got up slowly and looked over the edge.

"Argggghhh!" she screamed. Slowly she pointed forward. Directly in front of them the silph co

sky scraper gleamed in the moonlight

"James! I thought you were watching the skies!"

"Oh dear" murmured James

"We can't stop it now!" moaned Meouth "there's nothing for it, take these parachutes!"

Meouth handed the other two large parachute bags and quickly they strapped them on. It was too

late to steer clear. Quickly the rockets jumped out and parachuted slowly down. A couple of seconds later

there was an explosion from above and pieces of glass reigned down on the air born rockets. The pieces

started shredding the balloon fabric and the three rockets started to gain speed as the parachutes failed to

operate properly.

After awhile the three team members hit the ground and were flung down onto the floor. They had

arrived in a back alley behind silph co. It was immensely dark and the team sent a good few minutes

fiddling with the parachutes. Flames roared above them and they could distantly here people shouting. After

they had disentangled themselves they took their parachutes and hid them in garbage bins near by. After

they had come to a dead end and turned around they approached the street. Everyone leapt into the shadows

suddenly as a whole load of fire brigade vans drove past at an incredible speed. Quietly and whistling the

three stepped out of the alleyway and walked along the street. Jessie felt a tap on the shoulder.

The three turned around to find officer Jenny standing with her growlith ready. The animal

growled fiercely and snapped it's Jaws at James making him flinch.

"Is something wrong officer?" asked Jessie innocently a big smile appearing on her lips.

"Only the Silph co building just had something crash into it!" exclaimed officer Jenny pointing up

to the flames

"Oh my!" exclaimed James

"Meouth meouth!" meouthed Meouth, innocently pretending not to know two languages

"Yes," sighed Jenny "I'm afraid I'll need to check your identity cards"

Jessie fiddled around with her bag and took out a card quickly, she held it out quickly, ready to

hit the officer over the head when she realised there was nothing on it.

"Ah, that's fine" said officer Jenny quickly turning "I was just testing to see if you had one, you

look so harmless, it couldn't possibly be anything to do with you" and she walked off quietly.

Jessied sighed a great sigh of relief.

"Hey!" muttered Jessie "We're not harmless!!!" A second later James took her by the hand and

dragged her away half running half fumbling.

"Let's get out of here!" he whispered running down the pavement

The three hurried along ducking away into an alleyway every time they saw someone. Eventually

they found a hotel and paid the fair to stay there for the night.

The three were not in good spirits and found it hard to get to sleep. The beds in the hotel were

comfy but it didn't make any difference. Meouth slept on the carpet in Jessie's room as neither would pay

for a separate room for him like he wanted. Each of them was worried about being found out of their

accidental terrorist activities, and perhaps being silenced by team rocket in prison.

In the morning the three got up from the comfy beds and walked down the bed and breakfast's

stairs. In the entrance a TV was held up in the corner of the room and everyone was watching it intently.

It was an urgent news broadcast.

"Just in, urgent news has arrived that a master terrorist organised operation has happened in

Saphron city. Last night a hot air balloon crashed into the silph co building of studies, luckily no one was in

the building at the time. The balloon had an estimated six tanks of hydrogen gas in it and also landed on the

floor where the most explosive items were kept. The building did not fall, I repeat, it did not fall but

meanwhile while this happened the grand bank of Saphron was broken into and had most of it's money

stolen! It is clear that this has been a master terrorist organised strike. Team rocket is suspected to be behind

this!"

The people watching were outraged and started complaining to each other about all the bad things

team rocket had done.

"We didn't rob a bank!" complained James to Jessie suddenly. The room was silenced.

"Shut up!" complained Jessie dragging him away from the room.

Unlike the beds of the hotel the breakfast wasn't up to standard. The rice was all grisly, and there

was only a tasteless tinned peach for afters. The two did not eat well and even Meouth wasn't keen on it.

After ahwile Jessie thanked the owner and swiftly left the building.

Outside James and Jessie stopped with Meouth to discuss what to do next.

"Gees!" cried out Meouth "We really screwed up this time! What else could go wrong!"

"I suggest we get out of town!" said James worriedly looking from side to side. Police cars roared

past every few seconds.

"But where should we go?" asked Jessie ",hey, is that who I think it is over there?"

Meouth turned with James to look across the road.

"Bull 's eye!" murmured Meouth ", now shall will get that pikachu now or later?"

Across the road three people were walking along the pavement. One was a girl with orange hair in

pigtails, another was a tall man with flat eyes and another was a small kid with a cap and a rucksack. He had

a pikachu on his back and all three were happily walking along the pavement with big smiles.

"It cannot be!" muttered James "there they are! Ash Misty and Brock! Let's follow them!"

Quickly the team hurried across the road dodging cars and started to creep behind their targets.

"Hey Misty" said Ash as he comforted his Pikachu. It purred cutely and looked up at him "I think

I might be able to buy you a new bicycle now!"

"You think?" asked Misty "that would be great!"

"It's about time!" murmured Brock "it's been too long since we last mentioned that Bicycle!"

"If we head to Cerulian I should be able to buy you one right away, but I was thinking, does that

mean you won't come with us any more?"

"No way!" exclaimed Misty "Gees! You guys, I've had more fun with you people then I've had

with anyone in my whole life!"

"Dam" sighed Brock "I thought you might say that

"Why you!" shouted Misty

"Hey guys!" said Ash quickly stopping them. "Look at this!"

Slowly he picked up a rolled up newspaper which had rolled over in the wind and showed it to

the others.

"Mass organised crime scheme under way! Last night silph co was bombarded by a hot air balloon

and damaged badly!"

"No it hasn't!" said Brock turning around. Slowly he looked up "Gee! It has as well!" (meanwhile

team rocket pretend to be a lamp post)

"That's terrible!" exclaimed Misty as they all turned around "how could anyone do a thing like

that!" Slowly the gang turned around again. The gang continued on normally until suddenly Ash stopped.

"Hey, that lamp post!" abruptly he turned around but team rocket was gone already.

Quickly team rocket scudded off into the shadows again.

"That's all we need to know!" said James rubbing his hands together "they're going to Cerulian

now! Let's beat them to it!"

Once again Jessie felt a tap on the shoulder. Slowly she tensed her hand ready to punch officer

Jenny and run. Of all the people she didn't want to meet! But once she turned she found a man in a black

coat standing there, a rocket.

"Hallo" muttered Jessie

"Nice scheme guys, I'm surprised you pulled it off! Giovanni's very happy with your efforts to

please him, if it weren't for you the gold robbery would have failed! He told me to give you a message, here

it is"

To Team rocket team 14

members: Jessie

James

I am very pleased with your efforts. For once you clowns managed to pull off a scheme you

actually thought about carefully for once! However you are still not off the hook, though you have pleased

me greatly. I present you a master ball for your achievements, hand stolen from the very building you

damaged.

Also, a prise of 2550000000 g, IF you bring back the pikachu as well that is all. Well done

team 4

Your employer Giovanni

"Here's the master ball he mentions, don't waist it! My friend died getting this and if I find you

fools waist it on a CRAP!! pokémon... I'll kill you myself! Oh, and well dam done! My expectations of you

have greatly improved! Don't mess up and great things will become of you!"

And with that the rocket smiled shook Jessie and then James by the hand and walked off in

high spirits.

"But but but!" murmured James

"Shut up!" exclaimed Jessie and lets be happy while it lasts! A master ball! Now we can't fail to

capture pikachu with this!"

"That's right!" exclaimed Meouth

"Team rocket blasts of at the speed of light!" exclaimed all the group holding poses except

James

"But but but!" said James once again "everyone's giving us death threats!"

"Ah shut up before I claw your head off!" replied Meouth staring at the master ball.

The team then left Saphron and waited on the road to Cerulian city, for ash to turn up. They

spent most of the time digging a gigantic ditch and then scattered leaves all over the top to fool the three

heroes into falling down. James went on ahead a couple of times to bring back food and drink from

Cerulian. Eventually the team got ready. They waited and they waited. It wasn't until early afternoon that

Ash turned up with the rest of the gang.

Jessie and James hid in a nearby tree looking down with Meouth.

"How could anyone do such a thing!" said Misty with a sad expression

"I certainly passes easily as cold blooded" added Brock

A second later just as planned the twigs gave way and the three of them plummeted into the

ditch trap the team had prepared. As usual Jessie James and Meouth jumped down and leered over the ditch.

"Prepare for trouble!" exclaimed Jessie

"And make that double!" continued James taking out a rose

"To protect the world from devastation!"

"To unite all people with in our nation!"

"To denounce the evils of truth and love!"

"To extend are reach to the stars above!"

"Jessie!" exclaimed Jessie

"James!" exclaimed James

"Team rocket blast off at the speed of light! Surrender now or prepare to fight!" exclaimed the

team holding poses.

"That's right!" said Meouth jumping into the air

And as usual they finished their motto unhindered. Quickly Ash took out a pokéball and

dropped it onto the bottom of the pit.

"Bulbasaur! use your vine whip attack to make a rope out of here!" Quickly the Bulbasaur made

a rope of vines and the three heroes quickly climbed up out of the ditch.

"I was wondering when you guys were going to show up!" complained Brock

"Don't you guys ever give up!" moaned Misty

"Quick!" whispered James to Jessie "use the master ball!"

"I thought you had it!" returned Jessie her hands in the air

"Pikachu! Use your thunder shock attack now! Bulbasaur use razor leaf! Pidgeot use whirlwind

to blow them away!"

Lightning flared and the three rockets were zapped to a pulp. Then razor sharp leaves cut their

clothing and skin and a whirlwind blew forward and the three rockets were sent hurtling over the hillside.

"Looks like Team rockets blasting off again!" exclaimed all three as they disappeared into the

sunset. A small flash appeared in the sky as they disappeared.

They landed on top of a high rocky area outside Cerulian city.

"Oof!" murmured James "where are we?"

The sky was beginning to darken and Jessie felt a drop of rain on her nose.

"I think we better get into the dry!" complained Jessie. Quickly the three rockets hurried along

looking for a cave to stay in for the night or a way down. The clouds darkened and the rain started to come

down faster . The three villains hurried but couldn't find a way down anywhere. The rain worsened until a

full scale storm broke out. Jessie and James and Meouth ducked through the rain and looked all over the

area but they were trapped. Quickly they dashed into an abandoned cave they found and sat huddled

together in a corner.

"If only I had brought Growly we could have had a fire to warm ourselves with" muttered James

"If only you'd brought the frigging master ball we wouldn't be in this mess!" shouted Jessie

"Hey! Guys listen don't worry. You left the thing in the hotel so clever mr Meouth here brought

it with us. I was just waiting to see if you numb skulls would notice it was missing!"

Jessie paused. She looked as if she were about to hit him but she didn't. Suddenly she picked

Meouth up and hugged him vigorously. Meouth blushed red.

"Geez! Go easy on me!"

"Meouth! I'm gonna say this before you screw up!" said Jessie with a big smile" Your the best

pokémon I've ever worked with!"

"Ahhh. shucks! It was nothing" smiled Meouth happily

Lightning flashed outside as the storm continued. James looked out at the rain.

"I guess at least that's something good that's happened. It's not all been bad this time has it? We

did quite good Jessie!"

"Yup!" replied Jessie "We messed around floundered are way past everything, and this time

luck was with us for once, except for that bit where me wet Ash... We've still got to try and get that pikachu

though! If we don't, we're still dead meat. If we do, we can bring it back to the boss in exchange for all that

cash!"

"Now your talking!" said Meouth happily

The rain continued outside, and lightning flashed, but the rockets still had a chance. And they

weren't going to waist it if that was possible. The purple M on the master ball shone in the light of the

storm. Each of the rockets gradually felt sleepy to the sound of the trickling water outside. James looked up

at the cave ceiling. Stalactites were scattered over the ceiling. He moved slightly so that a big one wasn't

directly over his head. Things like that made him nervous.

"I'm gonna quit crime when this is all over Jessie" muttered James ",get a nice place of my own.

How about you, what would you do with all that money?"

"I dunno" replied Jessie ",I guess I'd quit as well. There isn't much chance of us going down in

history as master criminals, so we might as well just pack it in if we pull this off, I'd like to settle down as

well"

"But we'd all still see each other right?" asked Meouth who was listening

"Yeah, I'd think so" said Jessie "It wouldn't be the same with out all of us, would it?"

"Nah" said James ",I need your nagging, and Meouth's complaints. Where would I be without you

guys?"

"Probably extremely rich with a good education, and a master pokémon trainer" replied Meouth

casually ",why?"

"Hah" said James "probably, though I wouldn't have had half as much fun. You should have been

a pokémon nurse Jessie, you'd have been good at it"

"Yeah" replied Jessie "I guess I could have tried again, but then I wouldn't have met the rest of

the team. I'm glad I went wrong"

"You wouldn't mind having a nagging Meouth with you would you?" asked Meouth

"Of course not" replied Jessie

"Well, not too much" muttered James

"Maybe a little now and again" continued Jessie

"Well perhaps" said James

"Will you guys Shad ap!" exclaimed meouth rolling over

And with that the party of three fell asleep. Outside the rain trickled down and thunder rumbled

in the distance. The night moved on, the cave floor was cold but it was all the three had. There was a natural

warm about the cave that night which no cold could get rid of.

When team rocket woke up they found there was no entrance to the cave. A Golem had come in the

night and perched himself just in the cave entrance. He wouldn't budge no matter how hard they pushed.

"Just are luck!" moaned Meouth kicking the Golem. Straight afterwards the pokémon reeled back in

pain holding it's foot.

"Arrgghh mi tootsies!" exclaimed Meouth

James suggested catching it with the master ball, but Jessie was against it. Instead the three headed

deeper into the cave, looking for away out.

"Just are bloody luck" moaned Meouth as they walked further into the cave. Luckily Jessie had

brought a torch. From similar experiences it was advisable for her to bring one. After awhile they reached

the back of the cave and there was no way on.

"Dam it!" moaned Jessie. And she stamped the ground with her foot. Suddenly there was a cracking

noise and the whole ground they were standing on gave way and the three rocket members plummeted

downwards.

"I dropped the master ball!" complained James as they fell

"You idiot!" shouted Jessie just as they hit freezing cold water. They swam along carefully until

they spotted a small island in the water next to them. There they looked carefully across the water, for the

ball, but it was nowhere to be seen. Something touched Jessie's foot.

The master ball rolled forward and she picked it up. Carefully she looked over it, it was not cracked

or damaged. But what did you expect from the most expensive ball in the whole world?

"Don't worry!" said Jessie sighing with relief "I got it"

"Pheeew!" sighed Meouth

"But don't you dam well drop it again! Here take it!"

"You sure you can trust him with that?" asked Meouth

"I'm certainly not gonna take the blame if we lose it!" replied Jessie smiling

The only way forward appeared to be to have to swim out. None of their pokémon could swim so

they just had to chance it. There was a strong current as eventually James and Meouth got Jessie to go in the

cold water. The water was deep so that luckily there were not many rocks to cut you on. Carefully the three

swam down the water channel. At the end there were some rocks, which they climbed happily onto.

Unfortunately the rock turned out to be a level 53 Onix, it sent them flying.

They landed with a splosh in another water channel. James felt something bite at his heel and

Jessie almost had a Golbat in her hair. So with a new found speed the rockets hurried down the chanel to the

end of it. There were some more rocks there which didn't move when they climbed out onto them.

"Look! Over there!" exclaimed Meouth pointing ahead. The pokémon had pointed to a light

entrance just down the track. Quickly the three rockets hurried forward to escape from the horrid place. A

exit of the cave was just ahead but suddenly a gravilar fell down from the ceiling and blocked the way

forward. The rockets screeched to a halt.

"That's it!" screamed Jessie "I hate this place! I'm gonna take this one down! Go Arbok!"

There was a flash of light and a gigantic snake pokémon emerged.

"Arbok! Use your screech attack!" exclaimed Jessie pointing forward

James closed his ears quickly along with Meouth. Suddenly the Arbok leered forward and gave a

deafening screech, the gravelar reeled back in pain.

"Arbok! Again! "exclaimed Jessie

Again it screeched but this time the gravilar threw rocks forward and they hit the Arbok in the

face. The snake fell to the ground KO'd in a single hit.

"My turn!" said James jumping forward. Quickly he withdrew a pokéball and threw it forward. It

exploded in a flash of light, and a Weezing appeared.

"Weezing! Use Smog attack on that gravelar!"

The Weezing was two purple clouds of gassy goo joined together. A poison cloud of gas issued

forward and surrounded the gravilar.

"I think it's been poisoned!" exclaimed James but a second later a barrage of rocks separated the

gas and smacked the Weezing. It sank slowly to the ground and James recalled it.

"Go Likitung!" shouted Jessie pointing forward. A Large pink pokémon emerged in a flash of

light.

"Likitung! Paralyse that Gravilar with a lick attack!"

The Likitung charged forward and with a wide swing of it's tongue smacked the gravilar across the

face. The Gravilar returned and with a mega strong punch sent the Likitung reeling back in pain. It sunk to

the ground and fainted.

"Go Victree bell!" returned James and yet another pokémon leapt forward. This was a giant plant

with a large bell shaped opening at it's top.

"Use Razor leaf!" shouted James. A whole cloud of leaves shot forward and smacked the gravilar

in its centre. A critical hit the Gravilar looked in a bad state. But still it got back up and returned more

rocks. Yet again the rocks struck true and smacked the Victree bell hard. For a moment it looked as if it

might still stand, but it didn't. It fainted.

"We have no more pokémon!" complained Jessie

"Not If I can help it!" shouted Meouth leaping forward

"No! Meouth" shouted James "you'll get killed!"

The Meouth leapt forward and slashed the Gravilar's hard rocky surface. The gravilar turned and

threw rocks towards the cat pokémon but Meouth dodged them just in time. Again Meouth sliced across the

rocky surface, eating away the last of the gravilar's precious energy. The gravilar stopped and tried to throw

rocks but it couldn't, instead it started to glow.

"Meouth!" shouted Jessie "Give it up, the thing's going to explode!"

There was an almighty explosion, and Jessie and James ducked in horror as the Gravilar exploded

into a million pieces. When the smoke and fire cleared Meouth was left in the crater, but not standing.

Jessie followed swiftly by James ran forward to rescue their jointly owned pokémon. Jessie knelt

down by the Meouth.

"Meouth are you ok?" asked Jessie with a tear in her eye

"Sorry, guys" coughed Meouth "I, just wasn't cut out for battling. You go catch that pikachu, I'm

gonna go to Mog heaven"

"Hey! Don't say that!" exclaimed James "You will definitely cop it if you talk like that!"

"Fare well, Adios Amigos!" said Meouth dramatically his paw on his fore head "It was nice

knowing you guys"

Meouth's eyes swirled around in circles as Psyducks swirled around his head. Quickly James

searched his pocket. Feeling past the Cerulian police brochure he put his hands around a glass object. A

super potion. Quickly he took it out and administered it to Meouth.

"Where'd you get that?" asked Jessie surprised

"Hammer space" replied James throwing the bottle casually aside with a smash

"You what?" asked Jessie

"You'd understand if you'd read a complex dimensional anime physics quantum mechanical

guide for idiots"

"Am I in heaven?" asked Meouth

"No your in hell, where'd you think you are?" shouted Jessie

Quickly Meouth got up

"Please reincarnate me please! I beg for forgiveness, it was all their fault! Oh, hallo Jessie"

The day breezed on in Cerulian as the three rockets approached the pokémon centre. They gave

all their pokémon treatment. Jessie was glad to be back out of the cave. She felt her fore head, the claw

marks were gone, though her clothing was ripped all over and charred and damp from the various

unfortunate experiences the team had been through.

It was lunchtime and the rockets ate at a restaurant in Cerulian. James suggested entering

Victree bell in for the Cerulian gym badge, but Jessie was against it. The three headed to the bike shop to

try and track down what had happened to Ash since the team had been blown away.

It appeared that Ash had bought not only one bicycle but three on special offer. Now he was

cruising away towards Viridian city, leaving team rocket far behind. Now they would have to track the three

down yet again.

"Do you think we could buy some bicycles Jessie?" asked James looking at the shiny bikes with

gloating eyes

"You idiot" remarked Meouth covering his face comically

"You Imbecile!" shouted Jessie "Haven't you seen the prices on those, lovely, bicycles, money"

(A few minutes later Jessie James and Meouth enter the building with smart blue suits and clip

boards. They walk up to the counter in a march)

The bike owner looked at them with surprise.

"Who are you?" he asked suspiciously

"We're members of the State bicycle safety company, and I'm afraid we're going to have to test

out some of your newest top model most expensive bicycles immediately"

"Yes! Do as Jessie sais!" exclaimed James "you wouldn't want the council hearing about unsafe

bicycles would you now!?"

"Gees! Hang on a second guys, I'm sorry. Of course, you can test them out, but I only have three

of the best model with me at the moment which is convenient for you, but I'm gonna need them back quite

soon! If you don't mind I think I'll come with you!"

"That wasn't in the plan!" whispered Meouth out of the corner of his mouth. Meouth the same

dressed as everyone else looked quite odd. A small tie was round his neck.

"So, are you gonna test them all? This is going to cause me trouble you know. A guy from

Virmillion wants to buy a knew bike and I really need them back straight away!"

"Don't worry!" replied Jessie swiftly "no trouble, no trouble at all!"

"Double trouble" said James

"No Trouble!" repeated Jessie loudly ", we will only need them for a few weeks, maybe longer

depending on the quality"

"A few weeks!!" exclaimed the man "ahh man! This is terrible, what am I gonna do!"

"Your gonna give us the bikes!!" shouted Meouth "so we can test them! Ok? Now!"

The man unchained the shiny bicycles and took them just a little way outside of Cerulian

towards the entrance of mount moon. Immediately Jessie James and Meouth hopped onto each one and

started pedalling along. Meouth swerved round in circles and splashed a puddle of wet mud on the owner.

He gave a nasty look and folded his arms.

"So, what do you think?" he asked after awhile

Meouth rested the bike a second and took out a clip board. His legs hardly reached the peddals

but some how he managed.

"Not good" he murmured scribbling bad comments down ", what do you think James?"

"I don't like it at all! Look at all the mud on it, so unclean! When did you last clean these

bikes?"

The man was about to speak but Jessie interrupted.

"Uh uh, obviously hardly at all. I'm afraid we're going to have to close you down and confiscate

these bikes. The bulldozer will come tommorow morning"

"Hey, wait a second people! There's no way someone's gonna knock down my store! What kind

of policy is that?"

"It's are policy so shut up!" replied Jessie folding her arms

"Yeah!" continued Meouth "so just accept it already!!"

"Hey!" exclaimed the man looking with a knew found idea "your not from the council, I should

have guest, your team rocket! That kid told me to have a look out for you two! Your not taking those bikes

anywhere!"

Mud splashed the owner so hard that he fell over suddenly into a puddle. Quickly he got up

and shook his fist.

"Come back here! Help I've been robbed!"

"See ya sucker!" called back Meouth pulling a face

"That plan was ingenious Jessie! I congratulate you!" remarked James happily

"Don't celebrate now!" replied Jessie "we've got mount moon to come before we catch up with

ketchum, hey that works"

"The plan was great but the pun stinked!" complained Meouth a little way behind them.

The double trouble began for team rocket only a few minutes later. The journey was all up hill to

Mount moon and long inescapable ledges lined the road. Team rocket had to drag their shiny new bicycles

up ledges and ladders to get to the entrance. James had celetaped the Master ball inside his pocket so that he

wouldn't lose it.

Mount moon's peak loomed up into the sky and pierced the clouds above. The sky was just

darkening as all three entered into the mountain tunnels. It wasn't safe to ride a bicycle in mount moon.

Rocks could get caught in the spokes and sometimes the ceiling was too low. However to team rockets

advantage the pokémon were weak in mount moon and weren't too much trouble, several times Jessie

booted out the way a geodude. James did this once to a clefairy and the team were immediately chased away

be a clefable.

Meouth slashed the zubats aside without too much trouble. One got court in Jessie's hair and the

whole team had to wait while they removed it.

"I hate zubats!" shrieked Jessie afterwards

It was dark in mount moon but Jessie lit the way with her torch. They had been lucky with it,

after dipping the thing twice in cold water. Half way through mount moon the torches batteries ran out and

Jessie had to fiddle for ages to get a new set of batteries in. Meanwhile James and Meouth complained that

they were hungry cold and couldn't see anything. This of course is a atmosphere taken for granted for most

people in mount moon especially when they don't know where they're going.

The team kept finding they were taking wrong turnings and had to retrace their steps. Soon Jessie

also was feeling hungry.

"What time is it?" asked Meouth after awhile. Jessie looked at her watch

"Ten a clock" she murmured

"Oh no" said James "Ash will be way ahead of us by now!"

And so they lumbered on for another whole hour through Mount moon. The darkness began to

become over whelming and James was almost certain he heard Meouth whimper. Jessie narrowly missed

another zubat and Meouth fell over into a puddle but apart from that not much happened.

Finally the exit came in sight and all three ran towards it tripping up over each other. Quickly they

ran towards the one pokémon centre outside Mount moon parking the bicycles neatly outside of it.

The three clambered in a terrible state and Jessie wheezed out

"Two for the night" and dumped a pile of cash on the counter. Nurse Joy kindly returned 80% of

the money.

"What on earth happened to you people? Did you get lost in mount moon?" asked Nurse Joy

cashing in the correct amount of money.

"Need, food and rest!" murmured James walking up the stairs.

"Me to" followed up Meouth clambering slowly up the stairs

"We'll leave you in peace in the morning" muttered Jessie and followed the others.

"What strange visitors" said Nurse Joy after they had gone up stairs.

James dreamed of rocks and giant clefables. And a giant mighty clefable called Killfable who was

king of them all who was double slapping his head from side to side. He was level 254 and James felt into

his pocket, the master ball, he threw it but it missed and hit a ratata.

"Noooooooooooo!" exclaimed James waking up in a sweat. He looked about the room, the

darkness. Meouth was asleep on the rug as Jessie thought they should swap every night. James walked to

the window and took out the master ball. It looked fine, it was just a dream, no Killfable. No ratata. No red

slap marks across his face.

James felt back into his pocket and felt onto the celotape. He took it out, it had lost it's stick and

would need replacing. However a rose was stuck to the bottom of it. James picked it off the tape and threw

it out of the window.

"Yeouch!" exclaimed Nurse joy's voice from below.

"Sorry" murmured James from above

"It's alright" returned Nurse joy picking out thorns.

"I'm a walking disaster," whispered James softly. Slowly he went back to bed to the sound of

Meouth's purring. With that thought he fell asleep and as before Killfable appeared and started double

slapping him. The slapping became harder and harder until it hurt and the Clefables started to chant.

"Fab!-le!, Fab!-le!, Fab!-le!, Fab!-le!, fak!-lp!, wak!-lp!, wake!-up James!"

"Don't let him get me!" exclaimed James suddenly leaping to his feet. There was a thump and

James looked down to see Jessie and Meouth in a heap on the floor.

"Errrrrggh" murmured Meouth and Jessie. Slowly they got up. James felt across his face, red slap

marks.

"So ya woke up finally then" said Meouth "cam on! we gotta go and catch up with Ash!"

"Ketchum" said Jessie

"Will you quit that pun!" shouted Meouth turning on Jessie

They headed on towards Pewter at a hurried pace. All of them were dead hungry and didn't talk

much. However the little they did talk was about why Nurse joy suddenly had plasters all arround her

fingers. Which made James feel guilty.

"Was it me?" he asked himself in his head.

Quickly the team hurried on into Pewter ducking and dodged the trainers, except one small kid

bug catcher who they nicked all the money off because Jessie was skint.

Pewter was a pretty place. The museum, the distant view of mount moon, the garden, it was a

shame team rocket couldn't stay very long.

"Don't you think we should get ourselves a gym badge Jessie?" asked James looking dreamily at

the rock pokémon gym.

"Ahh will you shut it!" said Meouth

"That would be interesting" murmured Jessie "Us, having gym badges, defeating gym leaders!"

Jessie's face began to twist into an evil smile.

"Take on the elite four and take over the world!"

"We don't have time! Will you hurry up!" complained Meouth "we've gotta get that pikachu!"

Jessie counted the money and found that the only cash they had was 3g, not nearly enough for

anything.

"Don't worry!" returned Meouth "once we get that pikachu we're gonna have all the money we

need! So lets get going already!"

"Just think of that Jessie! All the money we could ever need! That's amazing, I could buy a

mansion!"

"You've got one already" returned Meouth

"Oh yeah, I forgot" muttered James with a sour look

Meouth edged them on and all three hopped on to their battered bicycles and started to cycle

towards Viridian. The trail was nice and sunny and the grass caught the sun, trees and pokémon. It wasn't in

Viridien they caught up with Ash but on the trail. As they rounded a corner they spotted the whole gang

having a picnic on the grass just outside of Viriden. Quickly the team hid behind rather large rock. The trees

opened out into a clearing where a long cliff drop reigned below. Ash and his friends were about ten

meteres away from the drop and just of the dusty path.

"It's such a nice day" murmured Misty cuddling her togepi

"Toge prrrriiiiii!" it squealed dancing around in her arms.

"Yeah!" said Ash munching on a cake "if this weather keeps up then we'll be at the elite four in

no time"

"Do you think you could ask your mum for some more cakes?" asked Brock "these are

delicious!"

"Sure!" said Ash happily "she loves making them, she can make them at the dozen!"

Misty looked from side to side.

"Don't you think something's a little strange today?"

Brock picked up another cake with white icing and a red cherry "No, what?"

"Isn't it strange that we haven't seen anything of team rocket since we blasted them on the way

to Cerulian"

"Maybe they gave up!" laughed Ash

"I don't know" complained Brock "they always seem to turn up at annoying moments"

"Prepare for trouble!" exclaimed Jessie dramatically riding in on her bicycle

"And make that double!" followed James riding behind with Meouth after.

Ash and Brock groaned quickly they all stood to their feet.

"To protect the world from devastation!"

"To unite all people with in are nation!"

"To denounce the evils of truth and love!"

"To extend are reach to the stars above!"

"Jessie!" exclaimed Jessie

All three of team rocket started circling Ash Brock and Misty like in an Indian raid.

"James" exclaimed James taking out a rose and throwing it aside

Ash picked up pikachu who had a shocked expression on his face and held him tight.

"Team rocket blast off at the speed of light! Surrender now or prepare to fight!!" shouted all of

them

"That's rocket right!" said Meouth dramatically!

"Why oh why don't you find something better to do!" moaned Brock

"We have!" exclaimed Jessie "we're going to succeed!"

"And become rotten rich!" added Meouth

"Now James!" shrieked Jessie.

Quickly James took out a pokéball and flung it to the ground, Weezing emerged.

"Weezing!" shouted James "Smog attack!"

A cloud of poisonous vapour drifted towards Ash and his pikachu. All of them coughed as

Meouth jumped forward with a gas mask and ran in. There was a shout from inside and Meouth emerged

with pikacu in his arms. The pokémon began zapping Meouth every step until he handed it to Jessie.

"Quick James!" moaned Jessis her hair going vertical with the shock "throw it!"

James sliced away the new selotape and took out the ball. The M shined in the sunlight and a

flash went down it blinding Meouth for a few seconds. Quickly he took a step forward and threw the ball. It

slammed straight into pikacu's head.

James staired in horror as the ball bounced off and rolled off the cliff face. His dream had come

true, or almost.

"Nooooo!!!!" moaned Jessie falling to the ground "oh the horror!"

"Er, sorry" murmured James pausing "why did it do that?"

Quickly pikachu broke through and cleared the poisonous vapour with a lightning attack. Ash

emerged coughing. Brock was the first to act. Quickly he took out a pokéball and wheezed

"Go Onix!"

Onix crashed to the ground in a flash of red light. The giant rock snake leaned up high its head

catching the sunlight.

"Onix! Use tackle attack!" said Brock once the smog had cleared.

"Starmie! Water gun!" added Misty with another flash of red light

Onix leapt forward and smacked the whole of team rocket off the ledge. Starmie then blasted

them further off in to mid air.

"Pikachu! Thunder attack now!" dramatised Ash pointing to the clouds.

The clouds darkened as Pikachu glowed with electricity. Suddenly there was a great flash of

lightning from the sky and team rocket hurtled downwards stuttering with the voltage.

"Looks like team rockets blasting off again!" moaned the team

They landed with a splash in a river, which caused the whole river to flash violently as the

electricity discharged. They floated down stream gulping for oxygen and you could just guess what was

coming next.

"A water fall!" moaned Meouth pointing forward

James moaned and tried to swim the other way his limbs moving at light speed. But it was no

good the whole team crashed over the top and hurtled to the bottom in a great sea of white foam. Jessie

crawled out first dripping wet followed by the others. Jessie sank to her hands and knees and actually burst

into tears. They'd arrived in the middle of a wild forest; it ran up all the way along the riverbanks as far as

you could see. They were in the middle of nowhere now.

Slowly the others crawled out of the river-dripping wet. Meouth hurried up beside her.

"Hey! What's the matter! Don'tcha cry, there's always next time! You make me feel bad!"

Jessie paused her eyes streaming

"For once, I actually thought we were going to win, but now, it's all just gone we're always

going to fail, there's are one chance and poof!" she tried to speak but more tears came and she was forced to

stop and breath.

James walked up beside her. He paused with a look of grief.

"Jessie" he muttered "I'm really sorry"

"No, it's not your fault" she returned picking up a piece of mud and playing with it like a

toddiler "we were going to fail anyway it's always the same! What are we going to do with out the master

ball now?"

"Listen!" said Meouth shaking her by the shoulder "team rocket never gives up! This is just

another time that we screwed up that's all! How about we have a look for it and either way, we go back to

HQ and tell that big fat crime boss Mr Giovanni that it's not just his underlings who screw up! That master

ball the best ball in the world didn't work on plain sight!"

"But even if we find it!" muttered Jessie "Geovanni will think we made it up all the same!"

"Well," paused Meouth thinking of a optimistic solution "we've gotta keep trying anyway! We

still got the rest of the month to get that pikachu! We can think up a scheme, which even Lugia couldn't stop

and even a slow poke couldn't fail! This is just one more time that we've not succeeded!"

"Yeah!" said James "the more we screw up the better chance we have of doing something right

for a change!"

Jessie at this broke into more tears.

"Look! Just take a walk James!" interrupted Meouth "I'm trying to help here!"

James looked insulted.

"Ah, I'm sorry, look don't take it that way" pleaded Meouth putting his hands in prayer

"Fine!" said James "I'll just take a walk! If that's the only use you can find for me! I'll just

leave!"

"Ahhh James! Please!" pleaded Meouth. Jessie continued crying.

James walked off muttering. It wasn't his fault the master ball hadn't worked why should

Meouth turn on him. He felt as grumpy as he was ever going to get. He didn't mean to upset Jessie with that,

just to help, like Meouth had said. But now he was just fed up of sitting around all the time, he was going to

make a stand.

He walked along the riverbank. Things had been real bad in mount moon but this just hit rock

bottom. James kicked a stone into the river and it skipped across to the other side.

"Only a cartoon character could be this unlucky" thought James depressed.

Perhaps this would be it, the gang would split up for good, the end of team rocket? Well their

gang anyway. A log floated down stream and off passing James. Where would Ash go now? That was really

the last thing James wanted to think about and he cast it aside in his mind. The sky was darkening and

James felt more hungry than ever. Perhaps he could bash a Magicarp and bring it back for supper, that

would cheer Jessie up. He started to scour the bank, but nothing. Eventually he just sat down on a rock and

put his head in his hands.

"I'm so unlucky" he murmured, "if only once, just please could something work out against

those kids"

Some leaves blue past in the wind, they seemed as if enchanted with a blue glow. The stone

James was sitting on began to hurt.

The clouds breezed by at a fast rate and a cold wind blew his blue hair messily to one side. He

came out of his head and started listening to the things around him, the wind the water. A couple of distant

birds singing, the tree leaves blowing in the wind a voice…

"A voice!?" thought James. He listened carefully; perhaps it was Ash who had come looking

for them or Jessie and Meouth. Either way he didn't want to meet them so he hid in the undergrowth. He

listened silently.

"How could I have been so stupid!" sounded a low voice. It had an evil edge to it almost like

Giovvanni.

"I cannot belive I've been caught by some imbecile! Some scum trainer of the earth! No human

is worth my power. What ball is this? A strange design they caught me with, the devises of humans are

getting dangerously powerful! A large M, what could this mean?"

The voice pondered for a few seconds.

"I am powerless against it, I am caught. There is no escape unless I am freed"

Agonising silence as James listened.

"so where is the human who caught me? He must be good, I didn't even see him coming?"

The voice stopped again as if stuck on a train of thought.

"Perhaps there is a way to destroy the ball"

At this James jumped out of the bushes and pointed his finger forward.

"Don't you touch that master ball! That's my property! Hands..."

Before him stood a great big white pokémon. One he had never ever seen before, three fingers

were on each hand only. Great powerful long white legs moved down to strange smooth feet. It had a

strangely smooth face, it was quite simply a Mew two, but James didn't know that since it was the only

pokémon like it in existence.

"What, the heck are you?" he asked staring into the creatures eyes

The mew two sighed, looked at the sky and trees then back at James. With another great sigh

full of resentment it said

"I'm your pokémon" he growled the words out with difficulty as if each letter were a thorn.

"No your not" returned James "I never caught you? You must be mistaking me for someone

else! I only have Victree bell and Wheezing!"

"Yes you did" sighed the Mew two "you caught me fair and square in those caves I was

napping in, don't you remember? You have to be my trainer, because I can't bring my power high enough to

destroy you"

At this James whimpered and raced his thoughts back quickly to find a heartily reason why

he was this pokémon's trainer. He thought back to where the pokémon had mentioned, to the caves near

Cerulian. That horrible time when Meouth had been beaten to a pulp and James used the hyper potion to

revive him (note: the term revive is being used completely and utterly in the use of the English word revive.

It has nothing to do with the item in the game named revive as the implications of a mere hyper potion do

not range this far. Meouth at this time was not in faint status, but was however reduced to a silly amount of

Hp only seen in games like final fantasy when a boss doesn't quite feel like killing you completely. Point

noted?). And when they entered the cave for the first time a Golem had crowded up the entrance so that they

couldn't get out. But wait? Jessie had jumped, the floor had cracked, they fell. James had dropped the

master ball, it must have landed on the pokémon then, when they fell in the water.

"What kind of pokémon are you?" asked James mystified. James had the strange feeling that

this would make a good song, but it quickly passed.

"My name is Damion, and that is what you shall call me. Though you have caught me you

have no power over what I do. However I am still yours until you release me.... "

There was another long pause

"You did catch me didn't you, with immense skill and daring? Creeping from shadow to

shadow blocking my Psychic powers with a device didn't you? You did actually catch me? With your

Weezing riding you silently down next to me? Come on, ... you caught me with skill! Tell me! How did you

catch me! I must know so that I can stop it next time!" exclaimed Damion in the kind of drama only a

Mewtwo can have.

"Actually it was more of a accident" murmured James a little embarrassed

Damion looked away. He paused summing up what James had said. He took a rock and threw it

into the river. It skipped across to the other side. Suddenly without warning he slammed his hand on his

head and shut his eyes making James fall over with fear.

"DAM!!" he roared "ME! The most powerful pokémon in the world have just been caught by a

IMBOCILE!! who didn't even REALISE that HE'd CAUGHT ME!!!! Arrrrggggghhhh!" Damion wrenched

his hands aside and cried up towards the sky.

"What do you mean the most powerful pokémon in the world?" bickered James "you don't look

that powerful, your just a big white cat thingimijig. What's so speicial about you? Your not exactly a

legondary bird? I've seen Gyaridos, and that's pretty powerful"

Damion moved his hand to the side and closed his eyes. There was a great flash of light and a

blue psychic fire wrenched out carving a path through the undergrowth. Bits of burning foliage were cast

aside as the wave moved on for miles. Damion put down his hand a small puff of smoke rising up from it.

There was now a long stretch of burning scorched earth stretching into the horizon. It had carved

it's way directly through the forest spreading outwards as it went. There was a very long pause. James took

out a rose and looked at it trying to ignore what he had just seen as long as possible.

"Ah" muttered James "that's pretty good, yes, er……, I'm not quite sure what to say about

that...... is this in the script?"

"I guess your right" mumbled Jessie "though I don't know what we're going to do now. I guess

we could hurry on to Viridian"

Suddenly there was a blinding flash of light (when Damion carved a whole in the forest) and the

ground shook. Meouth fell over on top of Jessie.

"What on earth was that?" asked Meouth

"Get off me!" shouted Jessie throwing Meouth aside. Currently Meouth hit a tree and fell to the

ground his eyes turning in giddy circles.

"Let's go find out what that was" murmured Meouth trying to scratch away the pidgeys around

his head before promptly fainting with a groan.

Jessie ran as fast as she could along the river bank to see if James was okay. Ironicly she

tripped over the rock James had sat on just as she got to the rather large clearing. Quickly she searched

around and found James nearby in front of a giant white cattish pokémon.

"James!" she screamed in worry "what on earth happened?"

James turned around in surprise and Damion scowled and turned away.

"Oh hello Jessie!" replied James gaily "this is my new pokémon I caught in Cerulian by

accident!"

Damion turned around in a rage.

"I told you not to tell anybody about that!" complained Damion

"That's nice James" murmured Jessie quite out of breath "but what happened to all those acres

of forest"

"Oh that was him, er what's his name now…"

"Damion" replied Damion with a glare.

"No" said Jessis Laughthing a little "I mean what happened to the forest! I mean all those

burning tree stumps which suddenly happened to appear!"

Damion outstretched his hand.

"Stop it already!" moaned James hanging onto Damion's arm. However the arm seemed to

descend slowly on it's own accord rather than the fact that James had his full weight on it in mid air.

"Look Jessie!" sighed James "I know I'm a complete screw up and all, but you will have to

believe me before exploso boso here takes down another 150 races of pokémon from this forest"

"Watch it!" warned Damion with a look death would take to a grave.

And so the conversation continued. The two rockets and pokémon continued in a conversation

until James murmured

"I guess we got lucky Jessie! Now we really have got a set up scheme which a slow poke

couldn't fail!"

Eventually after a long time Jessie remembered Meouth and persuaded the gang to head back

towards him. It was beginning to get late and the clouds were starting to darken. James roused Meouth back

to life by dropping water in trickles from his palm onto his head from the river.

"Whoah, what happened?" murmured Meouth. And so the conversation began all over again in

which time Damion wandered off out of boredom. Damion obviously wasn't into what he called "small

talk".

Eventually as the clouds got dangerously dark and the air cold Jessie mentioned getting rest

and shelter.

"Sod that!" complained James suddenly out of character "what about food! I'm double

starving!"

"how can you be double starving!" complained Meouth, "there's not two of you!"

"Well your starving as well aren't you?" replied James a bit randomly

"So?"

"Well" continued James "double starving"

"Well, if your double starving I'm triple!" complained Meouth crossing his arms in annoyance

that their conversation hadn't solved any problems.

Suddenly a pile of magikarp slammed down inbetween everyone. Since the incident Jessie had

found some logs, which James and Meouth promptly fell off theirs.

"I heard and thought I'd stop your whimpering" said the voice of Damion from above. Jessie

looked up.

"You can fly!" exclaimed James

"Of course I can fly!" returned Damion "have you ever heard of a powerful pokémon which

couldn't?"

"How about Gyaridos!" pointed out Meouth

"The type's Water and flying" murmured Damion looking away at the moon "any other silly

suggestions?"

"How can we eat raw fish!" moaned Jessie slumping her head in her hands

"It's just like Sushi!" exclaimed Meouth reaching out "better raw!"

But just before he could do this the magikarp burst into flames and then suddenly cooled

nicely cooked.

"Hey!" moaned Meouth "You just spoiled all that fish!"

There was a thump and another Magikarp slammed into Meouth's face and he was flung back

down behind the log.

"I hope you are all satisfied" moaned Damion a little depressed "you realise I'm doing this in

the hope that you might one day release me"

"I guess we could" said James as a after thought "we'd like to do something at least though,

like get rich, win world fame, get all the gym badges, stuff like that"

"What do you mean release him!" moaned Jessie "what so soon! Don't be ridiculous. We could

give him into team rocket and win all that prise money and more!"

Damion gave a mumbled curse and flew off again.

"Well we should eventually" muttered James "I know pokémon are there just for exploitation,

but I would hate to see any of my personal pokémon get fed up with me, it's just not right, and anyway. We

could never control him properly, I mean the worlds most powerful pokémon, it's way beyond us. He'd

simply escape somehow and hunt us down and kill us, like Giovanni's going to do if we don't bring back

pikachu and like that man's going to do if we waste his master ball, which I don't think we did, and oh yeah,

the police in saphron if they ever find out that we blew up silph co by accident!"

"Alright!" mumbled Jessie with an annoyed look "don't rub it in, I know we've got enough

death threats as it is without more. I guess we'll release him… eventually!"

"Perhaps we should be good guys for once!" said Meouth his face full of fish "I mean they

always seem to win and they've always been doing good things!"

"I guess we could" said James staring at the cooked Magikarp in front of him.

"Yeah!" said Jessie "but not yet! We've got one thing to do before we become good guys!"

"Pikachu!" exclaimed Ash dramatically pointing forward "use your thunder attack to take down

that dragonite's wing power!"

They were in a large stadium with spotlights looking down on the match. Ash was finally

taking on the elite four.

"Dragonite!" exclaimed Lance "use Hyper beam attack!"

The crowd cheered as Lance's dragonite reared forward opened his mouth and shot forward a

deadly beam of yellow light straight towards pikachu.

"Oh my!" exclaimed the commentator "it missed! Pikachu was too fast and too small to be

hit!"

Pikachu started to run around the pokémon as fast as it could muttering "pika" at every second

hop.

"Again!" shouted Lance "Hyper beam!"

Quickly Ash stood forward

"Quickly pikachu don't get hit!" the hyper beam missed by a few inches and hit the ground

"now surprise him with a quick attack!"

"Stop him with a barrier dragonite!" shouted Lance flinging his cape aside. The dragon master

had deeply slit eyes with a black cape which looked like it belonged to dracula. He was sweating because he

was on his last pokémon and his reputation was at stake.

Pikachu flung forward and knocked the dragonite onto it's back.

"Hold on pikachu and thunder shock him for all you worth!" shouted Ash over the din of the

crowd.

Pikachu faired yellow and electricity started to course through the dragonite. It was paralysed

immediately and couldn't move.

"Dragonite hold out and use that Barrier quickly!" moaned Lance in despair

"Pikachu!" continued Ash rampantly "use a thunder attack now to finish that dragonite!"

There was an enormous zap which a thunder clap which echoed through the stadium and

Dragonite rolled over his eyes in a swirl. The audience silenced and there was a long pause. Finally the

cheering broke out again and Ash felt his heart leap for joy.

"Oh my!" exclaimed the commentator "it looks like Lance has been defeated! This means that

Ash is the new elite four champion!"

The crowd went wild and Ash jumped up high in the air and opened his arms. Pikachu ran

lovingly and hopped in to the caring arms of his trainer. Misty and Brock hopped down the seats before

anyone could stop them and ran out onto the pitch.

The cheering continued as Ash hugged his pikachu and Misty and Brock joined in. The

security staff were about to interfere but tears came into their eyes and they burst out crying through joy.

Lance sighed and recalled his dragonite.

"How many times is it now old pal" he murmured a little depressed. Slowly he walked over to

where Ash stood. The crowd subsided as Brock lifted Ash onto his shoulder with pikachu and walked over

to Lance. Lance sighed as the air cleared of sound.

"Well done Ash, through great perseverance and love for your pokémon you finally did it and

defeated me the champion of the elite four. Therefore I must step down, but it is not in sadness and in defeat

that I do this. You succeeded because you had trust and love in your pokémon, and they in return gave it

freely back, and that is more than many top trainers can say. It took me years to learn what you have,

through great understanding and experience. The trick of pokémon is not in power or strength or moves, but

in caring and trust. You reached that understanding Ash and I congratulate you as the new champion!"

The crowd went wild again and Misty giggled and togepi gave a yelp of happiness.

Lance quickly wavered everyone to silence.

"Before we finish I just have to say the legal sentence. Ash Ketchum as champion of the elite

four you now hold obligation to take challenges in are stadium at certain times of year. Your fees will be

dealt with do you except?"

"Yes! More than words can express with!" replied Ash happily holding onto his pikachu

"Herby" said Lance slowly (and slightly regretfully) " I pronounce you champion of all Kanto

and master pokémon trainer unless anyone hereby object"

"We object!" exclaimed a voice

Everyone turned around in a gasp as four strange characters entered from into the stadium.

"Prepare for trouble!" exclaimed Jessie

"And make that double!" continued James

"To protect the world from devastation!"

"To unite all people within are nation!"

"To denounce the evils of truth and love!"

"To extend are reach to the stars above!"

"Jessie!" exclaimed Jessie

"James!" said James taking out another rose

"Team rocket blast off at the speed of light surrender now or prepare to fight!" exclaimed the

two of them

"That's right!" exclaimed Meouth. He paused while posing quickly he nudged Damion who

was next to him with his toe. Damion sighed very slowly through the silence.

"That's, right" he murmured

"Who are these guys?" asked the commentator speaking into the microphone

"What is your reason for objecting?" asked Lance raising his voice.

"Because he hasn't battled us yet!" smirked Jessie folding her arms. Damion looked terribly

embarrassed and turned red while this happened.

"Don't worry Lance" sighed Ash "I know these people, I'll defeat them quickly and get it over

with"

"You do that!" said Lance with a look of worry. "bloody cocky little kid" he thought silently

afterwards.

"Why do you people always have to ruin everything!" shouted Brock across the stadium

"Yeah you big fat rockets!" followed up Misty. Togepi pointed forward and started crying.

"I see you've got a new pokémon" murmured Ash looking at Damion with puzzlement.

Damion smiled and pretended to chase a butterfry which fluttered past.

"Though it seems you've no control over it yet!" said Ash with a smile "well then, are you

rockets ready to blast off again? Cos I'm going to take down that thing over there and you with it!"

"Yeah!" exclaimed Misty and Brock together

Damion growled. He didn't like being called thing and he was going to make that kid pay for

it.

"Pikachu you ready?" asked Ash with a smile

"Pika chu chu Pika pi!" replied pikachu with a bright happy face

Suddenly the commentator spoke again.

"Well well is this an interesting turn of events! For the first time in pokémon history someone

actually disagreed with the Ultimatum the champion was giving! What a match this will be! I don't think

they're really aloud to do that, but young ketchum like any proud trainer is ready for the task!"

"I thought you would be pikachu" said Ash happily "which of you is going to battle me then?

Or do you want me to take all of you out at once?"

"That kid gives me the creeps, I hate him! Saw loser my *ss, I'm as sour right now as a sweet

and sour chicken without the sweet. I hope these guys beat the crap out of him!" muttered Lance quietly

under his breath "how can such a perfetic little kid who doesn't have *uck all experience with pokémon use

a pikachu and win all the time like that! I hate his bloody guts!!"

"What was that?" asked Brock with a worried face

"Oh!" laughed lance "Just saying that I've never seen such skill and daring in a trainer of

ketchum's calibre before and that it's a great shame other trainers couldn't be like him!"

"James here's going to take you on, aren't you James?" said Jessie with a smirk

"Double trouble I am Jessie!" smiled James back "I choose Damion to fight for me!"

Damion smiled a cute little grin and continued to chase the butterfry. Misty quickly hurried up

beside Ash and whispered in his ear.

"Something's not right Ash!" she whispered "team rocket never took us on as boldly as this

before. And have you ever seen a strange pokémon like that before? What if it beats you?"

"Ah, don't worry" replied Ash smiling at his pikachu "I've never dropped a battle, and what

are you talking about? Team rocket always take us on with strange over confidence"

Brock was listening in.

"It doesn't matter Misty, Ash has beat up team rocket many many times before, I'm sure he can

do it again. And besides, that pokémon probably came from Johto! They've got loads of strange pokémon

out there that even professor Oak hasn't heard of!"

"Yeah but still" murmured Misty

"Come on!" shouted Meouth suddenly "what are you waiting for! Are you afraid were gonna

beat ya or something? Yar all scairdy cats! Ketchum's a scairdy cat Ketchum's a scairdy cat!"

All at once the rockets started to dance around in a circle saying that over and over again with

the exception of Damion who went red and and slatted the butterfly onto the stadium barrier with his mind.

"Alright alright" murmured Ash "I'm not gonna have my reputation hindered by you guys.

Come on I'll take you on anyway. Go pikachu! As soon as you get a chance use a thunder wave attack to

paralyse that pokémon!"

James leapt forward holding the master ball, quickly he readied himself for pokémon battle by

taking out a rose.

"Damion! Use!…"

There was a flash of light and the last word never came. Electricity rattled forward and hit thin

air. Only a mist was left behind. This was a good thing really as James didn't really know what Damion did

"use". He soon found out however.

"Damion?" called James puzzled

The mist grew and suddenly waved forward like a see of demonic souls. Pikachu was lost from

his trainer and couldn't see him. He began zapping at the shadows. But nothing. He could here Ash's voice

far off like an echo in a nightmare but he couldn't make out the words.

Pikachu turned slowly around clockwise and started to zap the mist again. But nothing, no

Damion, he could hear the screams of the worried crowd. Suddenly he caught a flicker of movement to his

left. He felt drowsy and fell asleep.

"Pikachu!" exclaimed Ash through the mist but there was no reply.

"Damion?" said James and Jessie together. There was no reply at either end.

Ash looked on in astonishment yet the mist did not clear.

"Pikachu!" shouted Ash again "light your way with a thunder bolt attack!"

But still there was no answer. Only suspense. The mist moved like a strange sea interlocking

between it'self as if some strange force was calling it together. Suddenly something moved in the mist. A

dark shape came forward. The mist cleared and Damion came out holding pikachu in his arms. Quickly

Damion through the pokémon forward and Ash quickly ran forward to pick his injured pokémon up.

"I don't care for your tone boy" muttered Damion "Call me a, "thing", again or any other

insult and I'll shock you all the way to Viridien"

"What did you do to pikachu!" complained Ash looking at his fallen comrade. His eyes began

to fill with tears "You are an evil pokémon! You have no heart! At least pikachu did! Your nothing but a

scumbag of a pokémon. No love in you but hate! Pokémon shouldn't live like that, I'll never forgive you for

what you did to pikachu!" his voice was filled with a dramatisation of a fully rehearsed actor.

"I warned you" said Damion his voice growing hot

"What?" said Ash looking up surprised.

"I said" repeated Damion "that you weren't to call me names!"

Slowly his feet rose of the ground.

"Look , lets talk about this rationally!" laughed Brock stepping forward

There was a flash of blinding blue vapours and Ash was send hurtling over the stadium into

the sky. He disappeared with a little twinkle into the distance along with Misty and Brock and all their other

annoying pokémon. Damion still had his arm forward.

"What are you doing?" asked Jessie running forward

Damion paused and a smile came to his face.

"Making sure they land in a psy-duck pond in Viridien… there that should do it!"

Suddenly there was the click of automatick rifles. Team rocket and Lance turned around and

suddenly realised that from every railing in the stadium a rocket was pointing a gun at them. Other rockets

were filing the people out of the stadium. Lance folded his arms and walked over to Meouth.

"You're a nice little pokémon aren't you" he murmured, "why'd you ever get caught up in all

this business?"

"Thanks" said Meouth "don't you think you should compliment me when I'm not in grave

danger!"

Damion put his hand down and folded his arms. He wasn't supposed to attack unless his

master told him to.

"We've been set up!" shouted Jessie aggravated.

Slowly a rocket took out a microphone.

"We don't want to harm you! Giovanni's very pleased with your work. Just leave the master

ball on the ground and put up your hands!"

"Don't bother" called another voice. It was Giovanni, he came out from the opposite entrance.

The voice as always was dark and evil. He stepped forward with two suitcases. He placed them on the

ground and stood back.

"There's enough money in these cases here to buy Saphron. James, I want you to give up

possession of Damion so we can continue to experiment on him"

"Will he get hurt?" asked James absently. Giovanni smiled.

"Think of the money James" said Giovani again

"Just give it to him!" said Jessie with a pleading look.

All the time Damion stood still watching his future destiny take shape. James looked down at

the master ball, then at Damion, then at the money, then Giovani.

"Just give me the ball James" repeated Giovani his teeth beginning to grind

"Do it James" repeated Jessie thinking of the money

Damion paused and looked up at James from his deep deep eyes.

"Do what's right" he murmured, "not what they want you to do. Search your heart James, I

never want to go back there, if they take me again I'll never be able to take it"

"That's a lie!" shouted Giovanni "just do as I say and you won't get hurt. I want to help you

James and Jessie! I can get you off the streets a place to live! Don't say you never considered it? You could

be happy together! I can help you reach that dream. We won't hurt Damion too much, and even so! Who

cares if one pokémon gets hurt in the process! We'll use the knowledge for good things, like hospital care

and orphans and new medicines!"

"I'll do as you say" murmured James. Damion suddenly turned around and gave such a

piercing glare that Jessie had to turn away. Giovanni's smiled.

"You made the right choice" he murmured.

Damion continued to glare at James with such a fowl look. However James still stood still and

did not look up.

"I'll do as you first said Giovvani. Quite well put. Damion"

"What" growled Damion with a look of hate

"I release you" smiled James

Damion's face turned to a horrified expression and then hardened, he just realised that James

had said the magic words. He grinned maliciously.

"Shoot them!" shouted Giovani like a rabid dog

All at once the firing started. But every bullet stopped dead in its tracks and fell to the ground.

Damion began suddenly to glow. A blue field encircled him and he hovered up into the air still holding back

the bullets. The very air itself seemed to be drawn into the power. James actually felt his hair go up like

static electricity.

"Kill them you fools!" rampaged Giovanni

"We're trying complained a nearby rocket"

"Well try harder!" returned Giovanni flaring red

Giovani watched with horror as the power grew. All of a sudden he turned to run.

Suddenly Damion unleashed the power he had been preparing.

Let's just say that Stadium had to be rebuilt. The flash of blue waves extended out and

knocked the walls of stadium down and most of the bricks away. The explosion rocketed into the air

reaching for miles. The walls fell in on top of Giovvanni as he tried to escape along with the rockets in their

scheme.

James felt the psychic waves move through his bones and down to his feet. It felt like they

would brake, but Damion protected him. Fire leapt up all around them but they them selves were not

harmed. The destruction ceased and Damion dropped with a echo to the floor. The silence of the stadium

now aloud an echo to exist. He walked over to the suitcases. Giovanni's hand was sticking out from under

the rubble. Quickly he picked up the cases and through them to Jessie and James.

"Thankyou for releasing me James" said Damion slowly. He paused unsure of how to go on.

"if there's anyone in this world who is good enough to call me their pokémon, I think I'd still say it was you

anyhow, no matter how good they were. You are brave underneath that crappy exterior… Get out of here as

soon as you can, flee to Johto, win some Gym badges. Do whatever you like, I'll hold the police forces for

today, then your on your own"

Jessie tried to speak but nothing happened. Lance looked down at the ground.

"I guess that means I'm still champion" he said with a smile "you know I really hate those

kids"

"Huh you to?" smirked Meouth, "come on guys lets get out of here!"

Damion waved, his three fingers swiping slowly through the air with a blue glow, and then he

blasted off with a stream of white light behind him. The burning rubble of stadium was left behind.

"Team rockets rocking" said James

"Eh?" replied Jessie with a puzzled look

"Ah sod it" continued James "it just sounds cool that's all. Big trouble! Double trouble! Is

coming your way"

"Come on guys!" shouted Meouth climbing over the bricks to get to the rubble "we've got until

tomorrow!"

"But how are we going to get out of here?" worried Jessie looking at the high burning rubble

James heard that voice again suddenly. But this time it was in his mind.

"I thought you might want this"

James looked up to the sky. The rocket balloon floated innocently down fully prepared with a

blue glow surrounding it.

"I think Damion just solved are problems!" smiled James walking towards the balloon.

It didn't take off until Jessie James Meouth and Lance were in it. He managed to persuade

them in the end. Then the balloon took off and it stopped glowing. They descended on the border of Kanto

again to let Lance leave. He got off and thanked them. Before he left he took off his cape, signed it on the

collar and handed it up to the team.

"It's all I can do for thanks" he said, "you just saved my title from extinction! And now I know

what that kids got! He'll have to wait a long time before they re-build that stadium, and by then I'll be ready

for him. REAL ready! I'll train my dragonite so hard that even that pokémon you had would have trouble

with me!"

"Thanks!" smirked Meouth happily. James looked at the cape appreciating and Jessie took it

off him and tried it on her self.

"Perhaps we'll pay you a visit" continued Meouth "when we're rich and have bribed all the

police, and bought a house, and still have money left over. Somehow I don't think we'll run out of this lot.

It makes you wonder how Giovanni managed to save it all up!"

"Giovani!" muttered Lance "so that was what the crime boss was called. I've always wondered

that"

"Well" sighed Jessie with a small regret "now that we quit and practically destroyed team

rocket there's no point beating about the bush with secrets"

James opened the case and to his delight found all the money he would ever need in the first

case. The second had the same amount. It obviously wasn't a trick, perhaps Giovanni really did like them.

Anyway, it wouldn't have made a difference.

"I'll see you again sometime" said Lance and he then set off back towards Kanto "I'll think of a

shi*ty speech to prepare for everyone when I got back, like, how badly Ash was beaten, and how he wasn't

quite good enough as a trainer to win against me! Ha hah hah, I can't wait, and I've got all day to make

history! See you guys, and good luck!"

"By!" called the rest of team rocket. Meouth smirked

"He was a nice one. I didn't know the elite four could be so un trust worthy"

"Aren't we all?" sighed James with a smile

"I'll bet double on that James" replied Jessie

The End