Rocket Shipping 101

Life after Team Rocket has new and amazing surprises for Jessie and James

INTRO

The final days of Team Rocket (TR) were coming to an end, both Jessie and James were at the end of their career with the big corporation. Blasting off into the sky from all those years of chasing after Pikachu for the millionth time was enough for them to call it quits. Since they were apart of the corporation for so long before quitting Jessie had an offer in a different area within TR where as James had enough and wanted to pursue different things within his life.

Don't get him wrong or anything even though he didn't always achieve his goals such as catching Pikachu and impressing their boss. James enjoyed traveling around with Jessie and Meowth but was at the point he couldn't see himself moving up in TR. James had changed a lot throughout the years and reached out to his parents and went back home to the small town he grew up in. He was at a phase in his life where his priorities had changed and knew he was going to have to go to a local university and get a degree so that he could make more money and be better off independently.

He had pushed Jessie to do the same but school was never her thing, she hated seeing her long time best friend leave TR and go back home to the rich life but she had no desire to follow him. Her feelings were mixed because they were together for so long and went through so much throughout the years. She always found James attractive and she is pretty positive that the feelings were mutual from him but the two were always afraid to make the first move and didn't want to make things awkward when it came to working.

Jessie was promoted as a trainer for TR training program with new recruits, the money was good and she was able to live in Viridian City. A major metropolitan area where she could afford a town house and travel anywhere by foot and get to work easily. It was a tough adjustment and since she had settled down in a way from all the traveling she used to do with James she thought the two were officially not going to see each other anymore. Occasionally they'd call each other and as soon as they went their own ways but as time passed the calls became less frequent. Jessie was busy with her new position and James was busy with school work and doing internships his father had connected him with. The calls soon ended and the two started meeting new people and dating others that came into their lives as the months came by.

James was interested in finances and when he was at his private university he had chosen to study accounting, something that would be a shock to Jessie because James came across like he wasn't the brightest in their trio during TR. James was always more book savvy and thought all those years of private school were going to be put into good use. He liked numbers and was great at math so this was the perfect direction for his career to lead towards.

2 Years later…

A couple years went by and James had finished school and landed a job as an accountant for a major firm within Viridian City. His parents helped him out and lent him several grand to help give him get a good home in the city, James preferred a pent house home with a good view, location and amenities. His big move into the city was exciting at first, he loved his new lavish sky rise home, the big money paying job and the new friends he made at his firm. He had a bachelor-kind-of-life going on where he was going out every night meeting women doing the whole one-night stand thing but a part of him wasn't as happy as he thought he would be. Of course money and sex doesn't always buy happiness James couldn't figure out what was missing in his life, his emotions were beyond up down once he was living the so called 'dream.'

Jessie on the other hand had done well with TR and moved up as a director position within the corporation where she overlooked not only the training department with new members but also overlooked the labs where they tested on Pokemon and prepared them for Pokemon battles. She received a tremendous pay raise allowing her to move to a nicer area within the city and afford a superb flat. She worked with a great group of people and TR was like her family, even though she was single, had money and new endeavors in her life she was surprisingly happy with how things were going. Of course like most women in their lives they think about marriage and starting a family but apart of her was giving up on that idea which she was ok with. She dated men and had a couple boyfriends after leaving her old TR trio but things just didn't work out and the relationships she was in weren't meant to last.

With her new role at work Jessie felt it was best she changed her look, she had cut her hair a few inches (it was still below the shoulders) and she started to style it wearing it down instead of it slicked back like she had for years and parted down the side. Her dress code with her new role at work was to be business professional so she tossed out much of her casual clothes to more sophisticated work attire, such as pencil skirts, blouses and mid length dresses.

"Jessie? Can you come over hear and read these documents?" asked a fellow coworker in the lab at TR headquarters.

The sound of Jessie's heels clacking came fourth as she read over a few of the files with a few murmurs and confusion within her voice. "This can't be right; this company is trying to sue us for the damage that occurred during the remodel of this department months ago," she replied. She remained calm and was going to have to leave the lab early that day to take care of some business with lawyers in the area. "Which attorney's office will I need to visit to take care of this?" she asked her fellow male coworker.

"You'll need to head over to Kanto Law Firm, it is two blocks down. We normally do business through them whenever we have an lawsuit issues that normally occur from time to time," he answered.

Jessie sighed but this was definitely a good excuse to leave the lab early, visit the firm and go home after. Thursdays are Jessie's favorite day of the week because she didn't have to be at TR headquarters all day on Friday, she basically had three day weekends which she was beyond excited for. She had planned a day at the spa, perhaps grabbing drinks with her fellow female coworkers over the weekend and of course enjoying her evenings to herself binge watching her favorite TV shows.

She introduced herself to the receptionist and waited in the lobby, while waiting she scrolled through phone replying to work messages, through the corner of her eye she caught a glimpse of an individual who looked familiar, a voice that echoed down that hallway that caused her to raise an eyebrow. She stepped closer wanting to follow the person who sounded oh so familiar...

"Jessie?"

"Yes!" She answered.

"You can follow me this way," the receptionist had smiled.

Jessie snapped out of it and the receptionist lead her down the hallway to visit with her attorney on the documents her company was dealing with. Jessie had sat down with the attorney and discussed what she was dealing with, as they talked business they made agreements as their meeting was coming to an end.

"Well Jessie we are going to take care of this, I understand the damage and I'm glad you chose to work with us on this concern. I want you to meet someone here who can also help with your investments in this area of your department because issues such as these are quite common especially with the Rocket Headquarters and I'm sure there are budgets you deal with right?" the attorney had asked her.

Jessie nodded, "Yes, money isn't tight right now or anything but any advice that I can use to help us in the long run that helps us save and be wise with spending is always great to have." Jessie looked down at her watch, realizing she had been there for almost an hour and ready to go home.

The attorney had stood up from his desk and waved over a young gentleman who happened to be dropping off some papers by the attorney's office. Jessie had grabbed her belongings ready to leave as she as she turned around she gasped and felt dumbfounded when she recognized the individual who had walked into the room.

"Jessie this is James he works in the accounting department here and is one of our best financial advisors/accountants at this firm," said the attorney.

James didn't realize in the first few seconds it was Jessie, he starred at her for a good few seconds thinking it just happened to be a different redhead woman with the same name.

"Jessie?" James took off his glasses and stepped closers with a smile slowly appearing on his face.

"James…" Jessie said under her breath.

James' heart skipped a beat and for the first time in months he felt happiness wash over him after seeing an old colleague of his.

I hope you all enjoyed chapter 1! I plan on having chapters 2 & 3 up by this next week!