Author Notes:

Hello readers!

This story is a SEQUEL to Pokemon: The Lost Quest. BUT I think you can get away with reading this story just fine without going to the first story. However there will be references to the previous story, but I still think it will be fine for you to read.

While this story is a continuation, I'm hoping this story can stand on it's own to a degree.

For those who are returning and for those who are new and curious this story will go deeper into the worlds of the evil organizations. In my previous story I gave hints or a few sneak peaks of how the organizations function. The reason why I never dived into it deeper was because you were learning through Ash and his friends, with the few exceptions in the case of Meowth. But Meowth always came off like what was happening during its interactions with other teams was normal and that there usually was never a need to explain anything because it already knew what the deal was and it was always keeping Ash out of the loop. And for the most part you out of the loop as well. In this story those hints or those questionable moments shall be explored even more as you learn with Ash whats hiding behind all the mottos and blasts offs.

A side note, this story's time and place is vague...I know it will make it slightly confusing but I didn't feel like waiting to see exactly what they will be doing with the sun and moon anime. And I didn't feel like waiting to hear what would be confirmed as Ash's new Pokemon. With that said there will be Aloha region Pokemon because in Pokemon reality these Pokemon always existed, they weren't created by the Pokemon team yet but in the Pokemon universe they always existed, the main cast just hasn't discovered them yet...so you could say this happens after sun and moon, during or just before. Again I know not having a set timing of when this story takes place will be confusing...if anything please consider that this story is on its own timeline.

Chapter 1: Your Assistance is Requested

It was always the same. Every time when Ash and Pikachu would find something extraordinary about the local Pokémon or discover something special about a town they were in, Team Rocket was always there to ruin everything. This time Ash stumbled upon an oasis within the mountains that was the home to a group of Clefairy and Carbink. A Pokémon breeder, Amala, was caring for them. She explained how she too stumbled upon them when she was on her journey. She grew such a strong connection with them that she stopped her journey and moved into a town nearby so she could come and visit everyday. The Pokémon loved this area because they liked how all the pretty gems like rubies, sapphires and much more would sparkle.

Ash and Pikachu were eating some snacks at Amala's place when a Clefairy came running in franticly trying to get her to follow it. Pikachu talked to it and after having their conversation, Pikachu turned to the humans trying to imitate what Clefairy was saying. They played a mini game of charades and were able to eventually figure out that someone was disturbing their home. They ran quickly to the oasis to find out it was Team Rocket stealing the gems that were precious to the Clefairy and Carbink. The Pokémon watched in horror as Jessie and James were up in the hot air balloon while Meowth was handling the bags filled with gems and placing them on a pulley so the two could pull each bag up.

Team Rocket recited their motto like always and an intense battle followed right after. Amala called out her Fearow and it sliced through the hot air balloon causing it to lose its air and spin out of control. All the bags filled with gems fell out of Team Rocket's grasp as the hot air balloon with the two agents were sent blasting off again. This resulted in leaving Meowth behind but while everyone was distracted by catching all the falling bags, Meowth was lucky enough to retrieve one but was unfortunately to close to the river's edge and fell into the raging rapids. Meowth held onto the bag of goods tightly as it was dragged underwater.

The violent splash gained everyone's attention as they saw the scratch cat Pokémon disappear into the depths of the fast moving water.

"Pika Pi!" Pikachu hollered to Ash, trying its best to explain that Meowth had one of the bags. Ash followed the river in hot pursuit with every intention to get those gems back as well as to save Meowth from drowning. The river took him out of the oasis and was stopped by Pikachu.

"Pika Pi!" It pointed to wet paw prints getting out of the water as well as a trail of gems to follow through some very tall grass leading them up a hill.

Meowth was running very fast with the bag filled with priceless gems. Running through the tall grass of the green forest, it went up the hill then down its other side. At the very bottom of the hill was a white van that had the front passenger window open for it to jump in. As it made it safely into the van, Meowth was greeted by his friends smiling happily as James stepped on the gas to drive off.

Ash was running fast through the forest as he followed the trail of gems all the way down to where he discovered the tire tracks and up ahead he saw the white van driving off.

"Grr…" He scowled and continued his hot pursuit. They had a good head start as Ash chased the van all the way into the town Amala lived in. The van parked itself on a large metal circle that was in front of a residential home. It suddenly started to go down. As the ground was beginning to close its access, Ash barely makes it as he jumps in landing on the roof of the van.

It was dark and Ash had no idea where he was as he felt the circular elevator stop. As it did so all the bright lights went on revealing thousands of Team Rocket grunts.

"Welcome to our hideout, twerp." Jessie said snidely as the trio exited the van.

With in seconds the grunts closed in on him grabbing him and taking away Pikachu by placing it into a glass case that protected everyone from its thunderbolt attacks.

"GIVE ME BACK MY PIKACHU!" He shouted.

"PIKA PI!"

"Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha!" The trio laughed villainously.

"Your Pokémon will never see the light of day again twerp!" Meowth said viciously. Ash was about to make a vicious rebuttal himself but then suddenly everything went dark.

Ash woke up and noticed that all of his Pokémon were gone. He realized he wasn't alone and was in someone's home as he noticed a mysterious black haired young man with green eyes watching him.

"Your awake…that's good." The young man spoke up. Ash then took notice of his outfit and he was wearing the Team Rocket grunt uniform.

"Team Rocket! What have you done with Pikachu!? Give me back my Pokémon Right Now!"

"Calm down, I'm a friend…I want to help you."

"You do? Just who are you?"

"My name is Hitoshi, I'm actually undercover in Team Rocket right now and together with my fellow cohorts we have every intention of bringing Team Rocket to its knees. I know where they have taken your Pikachu and Pokémon."

"Take me to them now!"

"Put these on." Hitoshi handed him a grunt outfit. "You'll need to be undercover for where we are going."

Hitoshi took Ash to Celadon City. They walked into an arcade called the 'Rocket Corner' which had all sorts of arcade games. Hitoshi took Ash towards a back room, which had an elevator for them to go down. They went down two levels and entered a storage compartment. It was filled with thousands upon thousands of poke balls filled with Pokémon.

"This way." Hitoshi escorted Ash through one of the many aisles and eventually led him to where his Pokémon were stored.

"Where are they holding Pikachu?" Hitoshi pointed to one of the poke balls and Ash immediately released it.

"Pika-chuuu." It said sorrowfully then looked up to see Ash's bright smile.

"Pika Pi!" It leaped into his arms.

"Pikachu! I'm so glad! Your safe now…all of you are safe now." He wept as he hugged his friend tightly.

"We must hurry out of here. Wrap Pikachu in this." He handed Ash a small sack. "If we run into anyone they will grow suspicious, its just till we exit out of the game store."

"But what about the rest of the Pokémon here? We can't just leave them."

"Your right but if we were to free all these Pokémon now then all they would do is find more to replace the ones they lost. Team Rocket needs to be eradicated but in order to do that we must weaken them from within." He proceeded to escort Ash out while Pikachu snuggled closely within Ash's arms while the small sack protected it from unwanted attention. They were going to take the elevator up but as the elevator reached their floor, it was filled with a few other grunts. They got in but the elevator took them down a few more levels. As they reached the bottom everyone left the elevator.

"Where are they all going?" Ash asked while Pikachu peeked out of the sack to see. "Pika?"

"There's an auction going on today."

"An auction for what?" Hitoshi leads him to a room that needed an access card to get in which Hitoshi happened to have. They walked in and Hitoshi said it was safe for Pikachu to be out as they were looking down from a catwalk, as the auction was about to start. The stage was a circle with chairs surrounding it and it was a full house.

"The auction will now commence." A male announcer said. A few Rocket grunts came out with caged up Pokémon of all kinds. It was horrible as Ash watched the Pokémon being sold off to the highest bidder.

"This happens everywhere." Hitoshi began.

"In every region by every team…they all do this to the Pokémon that we share this earth with. The Pokémon suffer because of them and Team Rocket is one of the biggest perpetrators...I have a request for you Ash." Ash turned to him.

"I'm aware that you had your fair share of run ins with Team Rocket and I'm sure you would like it to all stop. Join me Ash and together we can take down Team Rocket once and for all."