"Well well well what do we have here?" The strawberry blonde woman muttered as she watched her monitoring screen, the slightly low pitch of her voice perking in anticipation. Her purple eyes scanned across to her partner, a man with brown eyes and green hair. "You seeing this Dutch?"

The green haired man became irritated. "How many times do I have to tell you, of all people, Cassidy? My name is Butch. Putting that aside what am I supposed to be seeing?" He asked, peering over her shoulder.

"Aside from the first evidence that the Team Rocket spy satellite system is working perfectly. It's the team of 3 that those dipshits, Jesse and James can never seem to best." Cassidy remarked. "But now there are 4 of them and the 2 in the lead seem to be a couple. The perfect guise for us to prove we are infinitely better than crazy Jessie and her band of morons." Cassidy said with an evil smirk.

"And how do ya propose we do that?" Butch asked, clearly dumbfounded.

Cassidy sneered. "I think it's time we visit Team Rockets trickiest prisoner."

Down in her cell, a green haired girl is strapped to a chair with her eyes squeezed shut. "I won't look at the screens, I won't look at the screens. I won't!"

The grunt standing in her cell grows angrier as she shows more defiance. "The more you defy my orders the more pain your precious Pokémon get put through."

The girl was near her breaking point. For three days they had her strapped to this chair trying to break her will. "Do what you want with me but don't hurt my Pokémon!" She cried out.

"Grunt! Shut the system down. We'll take it from here." Cassidy called into the cell.

The grunt did as he was told and bowed as he walked out of the cell. On his way out he whispers to the girl. "You got lucky that my superiors showed up."

"Move it grunt you have toilets to clean!" Butch yelled.

"Yes sir!" The grunt called out nervously before he walked out grumbling a line of expletives followed by something about preferring KP duty.

Cassidy looked at the girl with a smile on her face. "How the mighty have fallen huh Duplica? You put up a good act by disguising yourself as a grunt. Why'd you do it though?"

Duplica opened her tired eyes and looked at the smiling face of Cassidy. "I was trying to free all the Pokémon you stole. As well as get information to a friend of mine."

"A nobler cause there has never been. To bad your attempts to gain higher clearance by disguising yourself as 009 failed. The DNA scanners really help don't they?" Cassidy teased.

Duplica scoffed. "Was there a point to this or did you just come down here to piss me off?"

Butch fiddled with the brainwashing CD as he tried to get the video system to spit it out. "Stupid hunk-a-junk." He grumbled.

"Come on you brain dead idiot." Cassidy called in annoyance.

"Ah ha! Got it. Now I just have to put this in." He slid the disc into the drive of the video system and pressed the play button.

"You've missed out on a lot while you've been down here. Including the recent death of contest superstar May "The princess of Hoenn" but that's not all. Here's footage from one of our satellites. See the couple? That wouldn't happen to be that friend you mentioned would it?" Cassidy said pointing at Ash and May.

Duplica looked on and realised exactly what had happened, in her own sleep deprived mind. "That bastard. He'll pay for ditching Misty. You want me to help you with something that involves making them look bad right?"

"The girls smart." Butch remarked.

"Smarter than you." Cassidy shot back. "If you help us with this we'll release you and you're Ditto from our prison. You scratch our back and we'll scratch yours."

Duplica stared at the screen angrily. "What do you want me to do?

Cassidy smiled an evil smile. "Make us look like them and we'll go cause some mischief. Rob a few stores, steal a Pokémon or two. You know the usual."

Duplica was quick to pick up on their plan. "They take the blame and get shunned by society. Alright I'll do it."

Meanwhile Ash and co. have left the confines of Valor forest after a very rough ordeal in which Ash and May confessed their love for each other. This turn of events however leaves more than just Duplica seeing red.

"I still can't believe it! We were having a nice little grandiose adventure and she comes in and ruins my one of my dreams." The blue haired girl complains to the tan skinned former gym leader walking next to her.

"The world isn't just going to revolve around us Dawn. Even if May and even Misty have left our group, feelings of love and lust will continue. The only difference is that May came forward first. And it's extremely possible Ash had similar feelings right from the moment he met May." Brock said, dispensing more of an understanding of romance than he lets on.

"You know we can still hear you Dawn!" May called out from up ahead.

"Stop the bickering you two. Let me finish this. Dawn. You are a sweet girl but you're just too vain. I like a girl who's ready to rough it and doesn't care how she looks two seconds after she wakes up." Ash said.

"Then why didn't you go out with Misty? It was obvious the two of you liked each other." Brock said.

"Misty was to into roughing it without actually roughing it. As much as she loved the outdoors she was more than ready to leave at the first sight of a bug Pokémon and if I'm honest she was more at home on the beach than in a forest where we routinely spent the night. That's what I like about May. She enjoys roughing it, she's equally at home in the forest as she is in the snow and the city." Ash said, smiling, "Plus I've only ever had one big fight with May whereas misty was more than ready to punch my head in and Dawn, we get along to well." Ash said with a deep look of thought on his face. One that carried him straight into a brick wall.

May caught him as he fell, using her powers to lift him back up onto his feet.

Dawn looked on shocked. "Well if that's how you feel then who needs you? I'm going off on my own." She ran past the couple and through the divider building built to keep wild Pokémon out of the city. "Go to hell Ash Ketchum!" Dawn called back, tears falling from her face and hitting the ground.

"Great. I'm going to go find her and calm her down." Brock said. "You two gonna come into the city limits?"

"Nah. We'll just camp out here tonight. Won't we buddy?" Ash said referring to Pikachu.

When he didn't hear Pikachu's response he turned and saw May and Pikachu on the ground laughing.

"What's so funny?" Ash asked.

"Nothing, nothing. It's a joke. Only Pokémon get it." May replied alluding to the fact that she was no longer human.

"Right. I keep forgetting you're a Pokémon now. Right Mew?" Ash said slyly.

"Yup." May said as pink ears grew out the top of her head.

Brock just shook his head, confused, and walked into the city. "I wish I could remember what happened that night."

Back at Team Rocket Headquarters Duplica has finished her makeover on Cassidy and Butch and was giving them a final piece of technology to complete the illusion.

"These necklaces will change the tone and pitch of your voice to match those of Ash and his little flings. There. All done. Now for your end of the deal." Duplica said with a smile.

"Right." Cassidy said with Mays voice. "These things work really well. Can we turn them off for now?"

"Yeah. There's a switch on the back that switches the voice modulator on and off. Right… here." Duplica said as she turned off Cassidy/Mays "Now you try Botch."

Butch/Ash reached around and pressed the button to turn off his before he replied. "It's Butch." He said with a sigh.

"Right this way please. We'll let you use the teleporter." Cassidy said as they lead Duplica into a room with a metal circle on the floor and Electrodes hooked to tesla blasters on the roof.

"Ready Electrode?" Butch asked as he pushed Duplica into the circle. "Activate the chamber please Cassidy."

"Already on it Butch." Cassidy said as she pressed a series of buttons.

"It's Butch not Bu…Oh that's what you said." He realized.

"Listen before you react." Cassidy scolded him as a glass tube came up around Duplica.

"Uh…What's this for?" Duplica asked nervously.

"Beneath you is a vault of psychic Pokémon. The circle on the ground spins and channels their power through the chamber. The electrodes power the tesla blasters which charge the psychic energy. We input coordinates and the psychic energy reacts by teleporting you wherever you want." Cassidy said as she turned a dial until it displayed an image of a Pikachu.

"Let's send her back to Kanto." Butch suggested.

"An excellent idea. Initiating." Cassidy said as she pressed a green button.

The ring began to spin and rose out of its casing and swept across the inside of the tube. The Electrodes fired off thunderbolts which caused the tesla blasters to fire and start shocking Duplica.

"Psyche! We all know that the kid is always seen with his Pikachu. So you're going to be our Pikachu. When this DNA altering device is done you will be a cute little Pikachu." Cassidy said laughing.

"No!" Duplica screamed as she felt her body warp. Her hair grew all over her body as her ears extended. Her eyes changed color from green to brown and the characteristic marks of a Pikachu formed on her body. The electric sacs formed on her cheeks as the brown stripes began to grow on her back. The zigzag tail of a Pikachu slowly appeared as her tail bone grew to fit inside of it. Then all at once she began to shrink as she lost all memory of who she once was. She forgot how to say anything else but the word Pikachu. The only sign of her old self left was that her ears drooped off to each side slightly, mimicking her old pigtails.

Turning back on their voice modulators Massidy and Bash began to laugh with Duplicachu joining in.

Floating above Veilstone town are the ever hungry and poverty stricken, Jesse, James and their obnoxious talking Meowth, Meowth.

"Man I'm so hungry. We haven't eaten a ting in days" Meowth said as he scanned the town for signs of an easy meal. "Ohh. Hey guys ya have to look at dis!" He cried as he waved his left paw behind him.

"What is it Meowth? We don't want to waste what little energy we have left." Jesse said as she pulled out her own pair of binoculars and looked where Meowth was pointing.

Dawn sits on the side of a street crying as her Piplup tries to cheer her up.

"Well well. Looks like the twerps had a falling out." Jesse remarked as she watched on with a smile on her face.

"And dere's da cause. Contest twoipette number one is back and looks like her and the head twoip are an item. Guess that don't sit well with contest twoipette number 2." Meowth deduced.

"You guys ever get the feeling that we missed something important. Or that something important is about to happen." James said as he sat slumped against one wall of the basket.

"Nu uh." Jesse replied looking at her teammate with a confused look.

"Nevah why?" Meowth asked.

"Just a feeling I've got. Trying to steal Pikachu now might not be a good idea. I think Cassidy and Boff are up to something and that soon the twerp couple might need our help." James said.

"If it's to thwart Cassidy and Butch then I'll gladly help the twerps." Jesse said with fire in her eyes.

"I hope that if that time ever comes Jesse, that you'll be as quick to help as you are to run your mouth." James said.