A Pikachu named Thanatos was trapped in a small, purple sphere.

For several years, Thanatos was forced to live in the endless space the sphere provided, eating the food that occasionally materialized in front of him. But no one was here to share the artificial life the sphere had.

One day, Thanatos felt a powerful force tugging him, eventually sucking him up into the sky.

A brown-haired man in an orange tuxedo-like outfit was standing outside of a cave. He was known as Giovanni, the leader of the organization Team Rocket. Having heard a rumor about a hidden "treasure" inside the Tohjo Falls, he sent several of his henchmen to investigate.

"Boss! I think we found something!"

The man in the orange outfit slowly turned his head and saw two men emerging from the cave and heading toward him. Those the two men wore the same black suits with red-orange R's on them, they had oddly colored hair. One man's hair was green while the other man's hair was purple.

"Ahh, yes. Proton and Petrel. What is it?" Giovanni said.

"We thought we've gone mad when we heard it. There were noises coming from the very back wall of the cave." the green-haired man Proton explained.

"We assume that it is a waterfall beyond the cave walls." the purple-haired man Petrel said.

"Oh, yes. The waterfall. Forgot to tell you about it." Giovanni smirked.

"But the noise was extremely faint! Proton here had to put his ear against the wall." Petrel interjected. "It could be anything. Permission to dig the cave walls, Giovanni?"

"You guys don't have any Digging Pokemon, but that's alright." Giovanni mused. "Good work, you two. You are now Rocket Executives."

So Giovanni left to get pickaxes and whatnot, leaving the two henchmen behind.

Proton turned toward Petrel and smirked.

"And this is why I told you to tag along. Consider yourself lucky."

"Shut your face. I'm trying to savor this moment."

Though the tools Giovanni provided were in good quality, they were soon broken by the absurd strength of the cave wall. Frustrated, Petrel swore loudly and suggested detonations. Giovanni approved.

Several minutes later the cave wall exploded. Instantly, the noise Proton and Petrel heard grew louder.

The now visible area was a lake surrounded by the rocky ground. The wall that the lake was against had a waterfall pouring endlessly from the cliff. For an area that has been hidden for what seemed like decades, the walls were impressively carved.

"So this is the Tohjo Falls..." Giovanni exclaimed. "Perhaps the treasure is inside the cave walls. Maybe it's behind the waterfall, just like in Mystery Dungeon 2."

Your ears may be impressively sharp, but at this point this job will go to a certain Pokemon of mine.

"Leave this cave and wait for me." He ordered.

After his henchmen left, Giovanni started searching the walls and eventually found a small crack.

Someone must have hid the treasure in there years ago. Then erosion must have kicked in. Giovanni put his hand in his pocket and pulled out a ball the size of a ping-pong ball.

He examined the Pokeball. The top half was red whereas the bottom half was white. A button was in the intersection of the two colors. Giovanni pressed the button and the Pokeball grew into the size of a baseball.

Seconds later, Giovanni threw the ball.

Almost immediately, the Pokeball split open and light flashed out of it. The light flew from the open sphere and splashed onto the ground, where it soaked through the terrain like water soaking through soil. Seconds after the light disappeared, three heads burst out of the ground. The heads were huddled together, and they even looked exactly the same, having brown skin, no hair, and a large oval-shaped nose under it's small eyes.

"Dugtrio." the three headed Pokemon spoke simultaneously.

"Alright, Dugtrio," Giovanni said, "I believe there is some sort of... treasure hidden in this area."

The Dugtrio nodded its heads together and dove under the surface. Faint sounds of digging were heard.

Minutes later, the Dugtrio popped out of one of the cave walls holding a purple sphere on its heads.

"Excellent." Giovanni held up Dugtrio's Pokeball. "Return."

This time, the Pokeball emitted a red light that surrounded the Dugtrio, and sucked it into the Pokeball.

After pocketing the Pokeball, Giovanni picked up and examined the purple sphere.

What? Tohjo Falls was hiding a MASTER BALL?

The Master Ball was a Pokeball with its top half purple rather than red. The purple half had two pink circles on the sides, and a letter M was engraved in the middle. Giovanni felt that the Master Ball was a bit heavier than a regular Pokeball.

It already captured a Pokemon. I can't even use it! Oh well, let's see what Pokemon it is.

Giovanni tossed the Master Ball. The light that came out of it landed on the ground, where it started to shape-shift into another Pokemon.

Seeing how a Master Ball could catch a Pokemon without fail, Giovanni expected an extremely powerful Pokemon, known as a Legendary.

However, an orange-colored electric mouse was not what he asked for.

As Thanatos's eyes slowly unblurred, he saw a man looking down on him.

"A Pikachu? I went all the way here to find a Pikachu?" The man exclaimed in disbelief.

Great. The first thing I hear after several years in this stupid... Thanatos rubbed his eyes and the man gradually came into focus - he was a brown haired man wearing an orange suit.

The Pikachu examined his surroundings. He was in a cavelike area complete with a lake and a waterfall.

"Some idiot must have wasted this Pokeball and hid it here because he was so ashamed." The man hypothesized.

"How did you know he was an idiot?" Thanatos remembered the fool who captured him with the purple sphere the man was holding now.

The man's eyes nearly popped out of his head. Even Thanatos was surprised.

"Wait a second, you can't talk! What the hell? You're a POKEMON!"

This was true. Instead of the high-pitched, cute voice that normal Pikachu had, Thanatos spoke in a low-pitched voice that mirrored a human adult.

"Human? I didn't know I could talk human," Thanatos snarled, "owing to the fact that I've never been in the presence of one."

The man examined Thanatos. "Hmmm. You have the same features of a Pikachu. Long ears with black tips, red cheeks, lightning-shaped tail... all except of the yellow fur."

Now that the man mentioned it, Thanatos was confused on why he was even orange in the first place. He tried to retrieve his memories. Something about a radioactive meteorite...

"Now, what is your name?" the man asked.

"...Thanatos."

"I am Giovanni, the leader of the Team Rocket organization. And you look like a valuable Pokemon."

"Thank you." Thanatos smirked.

"I don't think you know what the Team Rocket does." Giovanni said. "We use rare Pokemon like you for world domination and money. 'Steal Pokémon for profit. Exploit Pokémon for profit. All Pokémon exist for the glory of Team Rocket.' That includes you." Giovanni smiled.

What? Alright, fine. I'll come quietly. As long as you don't put me ba- Thanatos never even had the time to scream as Giovanni pressed a button on the sphere, immediately engulfing him with red light.

Many hours later, Giovanni arrived at the Team Rocket headquarters. In the safety of the Team Rocket Boss's room, Giovanni opened the Master Ball and soon, an extremely angry Thanatos was on the table.

"I didn't have time to tell you this," Thanatos snarled, "but we Pokemon do NOT enjoy being held captive in these... these-"

"Pokeballs?"

"Oooh, Pokeballs~..." Thanatos said in a mock-dreamy voice. "For fifteen years I was kept in this Poookeball~ right here!" Thanatos smacked the Master Ball out of Giovanni's hand. "What's so special about them anyways?"

"If I didn't keep you in this Master Ball, you would escape." Giovanni grumbled, picking up the Master Ball.

"Well, thanks for the advice!" In an instant, Thanatos was running toward the exit. Laughing maniacally, he went outside and slammed the door.

Minutes later, the door slowly opened and a confused Thanatos walked in.

"I couldn't find a map to get out of this place."

Now it was Giovanni's turn to laugh.

"This..." The Team Rocket Boss said dramatically, "is my HIDEOUT... four floors underneath the Game Corner of Celadon City."

"Where the hell is Celadon City?"

"About a hundred miles from where I found you."

"And where did you find me?"

"Tohjo Falls. Rather than the floor, you were hidden deep inside a cave wall."

For a moment, Thanatos became silent. "A wall? Why was I hidden inside a wall? ...Wait, I think I remember something... I used to be powerful - I think this was why I was locked away in this Tohjo Falls. But not anymore..."

"Just how powerful were you?"

"..."

Giovanni typed an analysis of Thanatos's power on his computer.

Thanatos proved to be faster and stronger than any other Pikachu. A normal Pikachu could generate electricity from his cheeks - Thanatos could generate electricity from his hands.

A fool would say that the examination took place in Giovanni's room. Actually, Giovanni took Thanatos to a large white room one floor above. And on their way, Thanatos laid eyes on several portraits of Pokemon.

One picture in particular had him thinking throughout the entire examination.

"And previously, you were pretending that you were weak." Giovanni interrupted Thanatos attempt to retrieve his memory for the third time.

Despite the rude awakening, Thanatos smirked. "Trust me, this feeble display of power was nothing compared to the power I had..."

For the next few minutes, Thanatos silently walked around the room. All that was heard was the typing on Giovanni's computer.

Eventually Thanatos's frown slowly extending to a grin.

"Hey, do you mind if I.. umm... go look around at Floor 3?" Thanatos jumped off the table and headed toward the door.

"Floor 3? Why? Did you forget something?"

"No..."

"Are you hiding something? Or are you trying to leave?"

"...I am not intending to leave this place." Thanatos snarled. "You have several paintings of Pokemon, and I didn't have the time to look at them because you wanted to find out my power and use me for your stupid 'world domination' tomfoolery that I don't care about!"

"Alright, alright! Fine. You have my permission. But keep this in mind," Giovanni warned, "if you leave, you will have no place to go."

"I am aware of that."

Minutes later, Thanatos returned holding a portrait. The portrait featured a pink cat with a long tail flying in the night sky.

"Hey, do you know who this is?" He asked.

Giovanni turned from his computer and looked at the painting. "Oh, that's Mew, one of the most powerful Pokemon in the world."

"How powerful?" Thanatos inquired, literally shoving the painting into Giovanni's face.

"You're going to break the painting if you do that! You want to know so bad? Here: something huge took place somewhere in 1978. It was a storm unlike any other, and when it finally stopped, this Pokemon guy right here-" Giovanni pointed at the picture "-was seen flying into the sky." Giovanni turned the painting around and smashed Thanatos's head with the frame.

"1978? What year is it now?" Thanatos was still laying on the floor.

"1993."

"1993? 1978? Isn't that 15 years apart?"

Wait, 15 years sounds familiar... maelstrom No, it couldn't be. maelstrom I must have been imprisoned in 1978 maelstrom and it sounds like this maelstrom Mew had something to maelstrom do with it maelstrom! But MAELSTROMwhat doeMAELSTROMis MAELSTROM what's MAELSTROMgoing onMAELSTROM whaMAELSTROMppeningtome? MAELSTRMOERMLAEAOLSRAFFFMFALFFFFMASLEFFFMLSEFFFFGETOUTOFMYHEAD

The orange Pikachu soon had a brief seizure before getting up.

What the bloody hell is a maelstrom? Wait isn't that a whirlpool? Pikachu can't control the sea, you moron! Wait, what was I thinking about earlier? Ah, yes...

"I think I was imprisoned in 1978 because of this 'Mew'."

"Really? Then do you remember anything related to the crisis?"

Images of several orange Pikachu flashed through Thanatos's head.

"There were others like me, I think. If you are correct... if there was really a storm, then those Pikachu were in a war."

And I must have been part of it. But does that mean Mew has imprisoned all of us? Are we hidden in parts of the Tohjo Falls?

"And knowing how there could be many of you, are there still other Pikachu like you? You know, Pikachu that are... shiny?" Giovanni asked.

"Yes, with the incredibly short time period known as 15 years and with the fact that Mew could have imprisoned every of these 'shiny' Pokemon, there's bound to be more of us around!" Thanatos replied, waving his arms around in a exaggerated manner.

The Team Rocket boss, failing to see Thanatos' sarcasm, quickly turned to his labtop and began furiously typing.

"You've given me a great idea. One which should be executed immediately, starting with this intercom." Giovanni cleared his throat. "ATTENTION. THERE ARE A FEW MIS-COLORED POKEMON WHO ARE HIDING IN KANTO. FIND THEM. START WITH ALL THE DAYCARES, GYMS, AND POKELABS IN THE REGION."

Several minutes later, a man with green hair and in a white suit came bursting in. Thanatos immediately hid under Giovanni's desk.

"You, Proton! Report!" Giovanni barked.

"We have discovered one mis-colored Pokemon in the Day Care Center between Cerulean and Saffron City. The reported Pokemon has two eggs."

Beneath Giovanni's desk, Thanatos narrowed his eyes and smiled.