Disclaimer: I do not own pokémon.
Characters: Ash, Brock, Misty, Jessie, James, Meowth, Cassidy, Butch, Giovanni, and Domino/009. I will also include my own Team Rocket crew with their own talking Slowking.
A/N: Just know that Jessie, James, and Meowth are the way they were in the first episode but Meowth has his voice from Sinnoh.
Pokémon: Team Rocket Friends to the End
Chapter I: The Recruits
Domino was sitting in her office at the Team Rocket Academy in Kanto. There was a knock at the door. "Who is it?" Domino called. "A grunt sir, you have some visitors who want to join Team Rocket." Domino figured the grunt was just following orders but she did not have time for more inferior morons. "Send them in."
The door opened and a man and a woman stepped in and stepped aside. A Slowking then walked in with his hand behind his back. Which most Slowkings did. This Slowking wore a red and black collar instead of a white and red one. He also a dark tint to his skin. The Slowking nodded towards the man and women and they closed the door and sat down on either side of the Slowking. The Slowking then amazed Domino when it spoke up instead of the other two. "Hello I am Slowking but my friends and associates call me Dark King because of my features and cunning skill in the line of crime. We wish to join Team Rocket as field agents."
Domino recovered from the initial shock of it all and thought on it. "You realize that you are not guaranteed places as field agents right?" Domino did not wait for him to answer. "Our training course will decide where you go not your demands."
"I am quite aware of this Domino…" Domino was surprised that the pokémon knew her name. "…or would you prefer to be called by your number 009?" now Domino was in complete shock.
"How did you know my name and number?"
"I am a psychic my friend I know everything about you." Dark King made that everything sounded super creepy even the two with that were used to it shuddered from it.
Domino looked less impressed with his attempt at being creepy. "Yes, yes you are very creepy now cut the crap. You two here are your training uniforms and please put your pokémon in a pokéball." Dark King's red eyes started to glow.
The male stood up and glared at her. "How dare you insult his Darkness he is our closest friend and mentor you have no right to say such things."
"Very well I am sorry for the unintentional insult Dark King. I take it he is the leader of your team." Dark King's eyes stopped glowing.
The female stood up as well. "Yes he is. When do we begin our training session?"
Domino stood up and walked to the door. "You start tomorrow. I will now show you to the barracks."
Dark King cringed at the word barracks. But he knew arguing for better accommodations would get him nowhere fast. "After all it is two or three nights in this habitat at the most. I mean how bad can it be to live with these lowly criminal humans?" Dark King assured himself mentally.
"The training course takes two to three weeks depending on how good you are." Domino said much to Dark King's displeasure. The male could sense his master cringe at the thought.
"Two or three weeks?" The male blurted.
"That is if you are good if not then it could take two or three months to successfully complete the course."
The female took charge of the situation knowing her master was not enjoying this one bit. "Is it possible to complete the course in less time like say two or three days?"
"Only one person has completed the course in less than a week and you are looking at her. I don't know much about you three but I know that Dark King's somewhat large exterior may make it harder for him on the barb wire test or even the sprinting test. But he should exceed expectations in the thinking portion of the course." Dark King knew she was calling him fat but at least she said it nicely. But he could not argue with facts he knew he would not fit under barb wire and he also knew she was correct on the knowledge portion but the running was another thing.
Dark King glared at her. "Well you are correct on two accounts my dear. Oh and don't sugar coat things. I am aware that you think I am fat! Well it is not my fault that my species is larger than others. Con, Blair come let's inspect our new dwelling shall we." Before Dark King could go any further Domino grabbed him by the collar much to his surprise. "Unhand me at once!"
"Oh no your majesty I don't care if you are their mentor you are a pokémon and rules state clearly where the pokémon go during the night." Domino announced.
"And where would that be my dear?" Dark King asked almost challenging her authority, almost.
She did not answer she just dragged him from his cohorts. They soon entered a large room filled with holding cells that smelled like pokémon manure. "This is your cell your majesty." She said as she tossed him in the cell.
Dark King took in his surroundings. There were at least five other pokémon in his cell. A Houndoom, a Sableye, an Exploud, another Slowking, and a Meowth. "Weird since when do Meowths walk on their hind legs?" Dark King pondered this but thought that it would be better just to ask instead of being confused on the subject. "So a Meowth that walks on its hind legs, interesting." The Meowth brought out its claws and the Houndoom bore its menacing teeth and growled. "Well, well my friends there is no need to fight we can be friends can't we?" Dark King said with a small smile.
"You ain't no friend of ours…" The Meowth paused. "…yet." Dark King was amazed he could talk.
The other Slowking walked up to Meowth. "I am the head of this cell and no one not even the talking Meowth is to be considered better or more deserving of the barracks then I." The Slowking said in a dark sinister tone. Dark King knew that he could mop the floor with this Slowking any day but choose against it since psychic powers were useless against dark types like Houndoom and Sableye plus he did not like the odds of five on one. "Wait Houndoom and Sableye are dark types! So why is a psychic type in charge? I need answers."
"So Slowking if you are a psychic type and dark type such as Houndoom and Sableye here are at a type advantage then why are you in charge." Dark King asked expecting the dark types to turn on the Slowking before him. Instead they only sat there.
"Because I am a Slowking and what better than royalty to be in charge and since you are royal such as myself I will make you my second in command." Dark King had it then and there.
"I am second to no one!" He shouted as he fired a massive blast of dark energy at the other Slowking. The other Slowking fainted on the spot.
The Houndoom and Sableye looked at their king on the ground then at Dark King. Sableye then began to say something. "Prepare for more trouble then you've ever seen."
The Houndoom followed suit. "Make that double for me!"
"To protect our king from devastation,"
"To unite all pokémon within our nation,"
"To bring the evils of truth and love,"
"To extend our reach to the stars above,"
"Sableye,"
"Houndoom,"
"Team Rocket Blasts off at the speed of light!"
"Surrender now or prepare for a fight!"
The Meowth quickly jumped in. "Meowth dat's right!"
Dark King tried to keep a straight face. "And what may I ask was that?"
"Our motto!" The three said in unison.
"Motto?"
"Yes, motto. All teams have them. And that king on the ground was too weak for your might so you are this cells new leader." The Meowth finished. The two dark pokémon nodded in agreement. The Exploud seemed not to notice or just not care. Which was fine by Dark King he did not care if the quite one of the group stayed quite it just made his stay that much more pleasant.
The morning came and the grunts came for the pokémon to take them to the exercises for the day. Dark King was happy to see his cohorts be the ones to pick him up. There were two others with them. "Your Darkness this is Jessie and James they got here last week and that's their partner Meowth." Con reported
"Ah yes me and the Meowth have become fast friends. I must say these aren't the best conditions…" Con cut him off before he could continue.
"Well you are not missing much sire."
"Quite the barracks are just as bad if not worse." James blurted out.
"Oh and Meowth, Prepare for trouble." Jessie started.
James looked excited. "Make that double."
"To protect the world form devastation,"
"To unite all peoples within our nation,"
"To denounce the evils of truth and love,"
"To extend our reach to the stars above,"
"Jessie,"
"James,"
"Team Rocket Blast off at the speed of light!"
"Surrender now or prepare to fight, fight, fight!"
"Meowth dat's right!" Meowth finished proudly.
"So that's the motto your team came up with Meowth? It sounds similar to the one from last night." Dark King stated dryly.
"Well we sort of used that as a template."
"Right so does every team have to have one?" He glanced at Con and Blair for their thoughts on the subject.
"Well no as a matter of fact it is just a tradition started by most Team Rocket teams and grunts like those two over there. Their names are Cassidy and uh…Biff." Somehow the man heard the Meowth and hollered. "My name is not Biff! It's Butch!" Cassidy turned towards here partner. "Oh shut up Hutch" "My name is Butch!" Meowth then turned towards Dark King again. "Well as you can see he hates people and pokémon getting his name wrong."
Dark King then got an idea. He started to talk very loudly. "MAYBE BOTCH SHOULD CHANGE HIS NAME!" He then sneered as the man shouted. "MY NAME IS BUTCH!" "OK I GUESS I HEARD WORNG BOB." The man and woman then walked up to them.
Cassidy began with. "Prepare for trouble…"
Butch then continued with. "And make it double…"
"To infect the world with devastation,"
"To blight all peoples within every nation,"
"To denounce the goodness of truth and love,"
"To extend our wrath to the stars above,"
"Cassidy,"
"And Butch of course,"
"We're Team Rocket circling Earth all day and night!"
"Surrender to us now or you will surely lose the fight!"
The Exploud jumped out from the cell and screamed with all his might. "Exploud!"
"Whatever Cassidy and Bob." Dark King said with a dark grin.
"It's Butch! B-U-T-C-H Butch!" Butch screamed.
"Oh shut up Butch he just is trying to get under your skin." Cassidy reassured her partner glaring at Dark King. "Let's go and get ready for the finals Butch. Then we can watch Jessie and James destroy another part of the course and get kicked out of the training program." Butch and Cassidy left laugh with the Exploud in tow.
"What was that about?" Con asked James.
"Butch and Cassidy sabotaged the course yesterday and made us scape goats. So we got in so much trouble that they refused to let us eat last night and this morning." James explained.
"Speaking of eating when do us pokémon eat?" Dark King asked getting a sympathetic look from Meowth.
"We get dinner and that is it. You came five minutes after dinner last night so they decide not to feed you I guess." Meowth finished shrugging.
"This is an outrage! Someone will pay dearly for this!" Dark King then turned to Con and Blair. "So when do you humans eat?" Fearing that they already ate.
James spoke up first. "We ate an hour ago your majesty." James said trying not to enrage the already angered Slowking.
"Don't give me that 'your majesty' crap James my boy! I never like it when people other than my closest friends and pupils do that. Especially when they use it just to annoy me."
"Sorry Dark King." James said truly sorry for offending him.
"Despite what you are think James you did not offend me in anyway shape or form I was just making myself clear." Dark King saw the surprise on the trios faces. "I am a psychic and I can read minds I was just scanning yours to make sure that you were not lying."
The six made their way towards the course. Along the way Dark King spotted Domino and he voiced his complaint about not getting food last night just to be told to deal with it and that field agents must sometimes go without food for weeks on end.
The first day went well for Con, Blair, and Dark King. They passed all the tests with flying colors the only one to fail the barb wire portion was of course Dark King. The same could not be said for Jessie, James, and Meowth. It was indeed going better. Butch and Cassidy tried to sabotage them again but got caught and were docked major points. So with the points they lost even though they passed the finals they were docked so much that they failed it.
-Two Days Later-
Giovanni was standing in front of all of the team rocket grunts who passed. Amongst them were Jessie, James, Meowth, Dark King, Con, and Blair. Butch and Cassidy were still in deep shit with Domino for the destruction of Team Rocket property and then pinning it on fellow grunts. So needless to say they were still being punished. "It is with great pleasure to see so many young recruits ready and eager to serve Team Rocket. Furthermore the teams you are in now will be your teams for your entire Team Rocket career."
Dark King was happy for his friend Meowth to get to stay with Jessie and James. He was also glad for himself and his friends Con and Blair for getting to sit together.
"I notice we have some pokémon in the groups." He turned Domino with a frown.
"Yes well you see sir those pokémon are very special. They both can speak English and have amazing abilities in the field. They were tested with the rest of their teams and passed."
Giovanni nodded. "Well then I hope the people and pokémon have what it takes to serve Team Rocket."
Dark King knew it was foolish to speak now but he did not care. "Don't worry sir you will not be disappointed like Domino was with those two." He said pointing towards Butch and Cassidy who were still cleaning up the mess they framed Jessie and James for.
"I see. I hope they were punished for their incompetence." Domino nodded. "The vast majority of you are Field Agents. Some of you will be told otherwise, but for now just focus on the celebration at hand. Congratulations to you all. Welcome to Team Rocket!" Giovanni concluded.
All the graduates shouted. "For Team Rocket!"
After Giovanni left Domino explained that each team can go as a single team or double up with one other team. This interested Dark King knowing his crew and Meowth and his crew would end up going out together. The two teams went through thick and thin together in the past few days. So it came as no surprise to him when Meowth and the others agreed.
~Chapter I Part II: Together as One~
The day after graduation the two teams united as one and headed out for their new jobs as field agents. Dark King and the others came up with a new motto for their team.
Jessie: Prepare for Trouble from the skies!
James: From beyond the stars, a nasty surprise!
Blair: An evil as old as the galaxy…
Con: …Sent here to fulfill our destiny!
Meowth: And don't forget me!
Dark King: Or me!
Jessie and Blair: To denounce the evils of truth and love!
James and Con: To extend our reach to the stars above!
Jessie: Jessie,
James (holding a red rose): James,
Blair: Blair,
Con: Con,
Dark King: Dark King, and…
Meowth (jumps on Dark King's shell crown): …Meowth now dat's a name!
Jessie and James: Wherever there is good in the universe…
Blair and Con: …Team Rocket…
Dark King and Meowth: …Will be there…
All: …To make everything worse!
Yes their motto was long but it was also intimidating. Though Dark King would never admit it he also enjoyed getting to say the motto. Not to mention that Meowth was the only one he would allow to jump on his head. Meowth after all was the lightest and even though Dark King would never openly admit Meowth was his closest friend.
The group used Dark King's battleship to get around. The ship was fifty miles long and twenty-five miles wide. The very front of the ship was the bridge. The bridge took up one fourth of the ship and took up two floors at the front and had the controls for everything. Back-up controls were located in several locations on the ship just in case. The ship had five floors, twenty capture cannons, two hangers that took up one eighth of the ship, ten bedrooms, and six bathrooms. The engines allowed the ship to go the whole distance of Kanto in one hour. There was also a room on the ship that had pictures of every legendary that has been discovered it also had a statue of Palkia and a statue of Dialga.
Hanger-F (flying) housed the Meowth hot air balloon and the peddle blimp. Hanger-W (water) housed the Magikarp submarine and the battle sub.
The battle sub was the water version of the battleship. It was only 1 mile long and 2,640 feet wide. The sub has four capture cannons, and a silenced propel system. The propel system allows it to move silently through the sea without detection by any kind of radar or sonar. If detected it would only sound like a whale.
The crew of six headed for their first target; the Pokémon lab in pallet town. Dark King and the others were on the bridge of the battleship which they named The Rocket. Even though they named it that because they were members of Team Rocket Dark King refused to let anyone paint a big red 'R' on the side "Why draw attention to ourselves?" he asked them not expecting an answer. The others agreed on the matter. Seeing how the 'R' would just scream 'We're criminals arrest us!'
Meowth was the first to speak. "So we are going to attack an old man's lab?" No one answered they only nodded.
Dark King turned to his friend. "Don't worry Meowth by the time the authorities arrive we will be long gone." Meowth looked a little relieved. Dark King then turned towards Con. "Con, activate the cloaking device. Blair, drop the ladder. Jessie, James, Meowth, and I will head for the descending point. You two stay on the ship in case we need to make a quick getaway." All of his teammates nodded in agreement. Jessie and James already learned not to cross Dark King especially when it came to following orders on his own ship.
The four entered the lab through an open skylight. Professor Oak was asleep at his desk. Papers littered the floor and desk. The four snuck over towards the pokéball selves. They each took a sack and started to gather the pokéballs up. When they turned to leave they were face to face with a snarling Houndour. Dark King whispered. "Nice doggy, good doggy." Which did nothing but anger the Houndour. The Houndour then barked really loud waking the professor.
Oak raised his head as shouted. "Who, what, where!" He then spotted the four crooks. "Huh, who are you and what are you doing with those pokéballs!" He demanded.
Jessie started on their back-up motto since two of their members were not present. "Prepare for trouble, these pokéballs are ours,"
James then chimed in. "Make it double,"
"To protect the world from devastation,"
"To unite all peoples with in our nation,"
"To denounce the evils of truth and love,"
"To extend our reach to the stars above,"
"Jessie,"
"James,"
"Team Rocket Blast of at the speed of light,"
"Surrender now or prepare to fight!"
Dark King (and Meowth) jumped in. "That's (dat's) right!"
The professor was about to reach for the phone. Before he could Dark King slammed him against the wall with his psychic abilities. "Not so fast professor! We stole these fair and square! So if you excuse us we have a ride to catch, toddles." Dark King finished as he grabbed the ladder. Jessie, James, and Meowth said good-bye and grabbed the ladder as well. As soon as they did the ship began to move upwards and the ladder began to go back into the ship.
The group got onto the bridge and contacted their boss. Giovanni appeared on the screen. Most of his face was hidden in the shadows. He was petting his Persian. "What is it? I am very busy!"
Dark King gulped a little. "We understand sir but we have just robbed Professor Oak blind! We have at least two hundred of his pokéballs. We have already checked them and over 75% of them had pokémon in them. The others must have been out in the fields. Unfortunately going back now would put us in danger of being apprehended by the authorities that the professor has undoubtedly called after we left."
Giovanni smirked. "I understand. You will all be rewarded! I do hope you get here soon so we can get those pokémon in the storage room for future use."
"Of course sir." Dark King said as Jessie, James, Blair, and Con whispered their questions to him. "My cohorts here found some pokémon they wish to keep as part of their reward; an Ekans, a Koffing, a Duskull, and a Houndour. Is it possible to strike that deal?"
Giovanni only nodded. "You may and I also want you to keep the empty pokéballs. We have a new machine that will modify them so they can be reused."
"Thank you sir." Dark King said. Giovanni then disconnected the call.
Dark King was glad that most of the Pokémon from the professor's lab were in their pokéballs. There were only thirty-five that were empty. Dark King turned toward his five cohorts and friends. "I will be in the room of legends if you need me." Dark King then left the bridge and headed for his favorite room. The door was titled 'The Room of Legends' the room was full of stone slabs. The slabs contained many legends and described many legendary pokémon. There were pictures, paintings, and murals of the legendary pokémon all over the room. In the middle of the room were two statues. The one on the left was Palkia the pokémon that was said to govern all of space. The one on the right was Dialga the pokémon that was said to govern all of time. On each statue there were gold plates. The gold plates were etched with the words 'Two entities that never should have met. Crossed paths in the Space-Time Rift, their rage enveloped the city, and the result destruction. The nightmare told me exactly what I had to do I had to leave Oración for the world.' Dark King had no clue what Oración meant but he knew that it must be related to Palkia and Dialga somehow. The statues of Palkia and Dialga were his greatest treasure. His second greatest; the stone mural of Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres. Below the legendary bird trio was the guardian of the sea Lugia.
Meowth walked in next to Dark King. "You admire dese pieces of stone a little too much don't ya tink?" Meowth said referring to the statues.
"You just don't understand my friend. These are the great Palkia and Dialga. Palkia is the governor of space and Dialga is the governor of time. Palkia can warp space and reality with his 'Spacial Rend' attack and Dialga can alter time with his 'Roar of Time' attack. Unfortunately capturing these two entities would cause unbalance in the world. Space and Time would be thrown out of whack and the world as we know it would cease to exist. That is why no one in their right mind would attempt to capture these two. Giovanni does not know about these two and for the sake of the planet I hope he never learns of them." Meowth seemed surprised that Dark King would keep such a secret from the boss. "Imagine if the boss did capture these two. What would happen if Space and/or Time was not governed?" Meowth started to pale. "Without these deities watching over Space and Time then the world would fall into chaos and the world as we know it would be destroyed. That is why no one must know how to summon them or what they can do." Dark King finished. Meowth had lost all his color and was now just staring at the statues before him.
"S-such p-power!" He stammered.
Just then the rest of the gang walked in. "Power huh? Sounds like a good gift to give to the boss." James announced.
"No you fool Palkia and Dialga must be left alone or the entire world could cease to exist! Space and Time is not something a mere mortal can control nor understand. Mortals like us could never comprehend these things and neither could Giovanni. Giovanni could never fully understand the power of these deities of their place in the world." Dark King finished his speech and turned to see Jessie, James, and Meowth white as ghosts.
Con then broke the eerie silence. "Dark King we will be landing at Team Rocket HQ in a matter of minutes."
"Well then I guess we better get the pokéballs ready for delivery." They all nodded.
They got to Hanger-F where the pokéballs were being held. Jessie took her new Ekans from the pile, James took his new Koffing, Con took his new Houndour, and Blair took her new Duskull before they delivered the rest to the boss. The boss was pleasantly surprised when they inspected the Pokémon in the balls and found some to be very high levels. The gang collected their reward. The reward was 10,000 Poké and a promotion to Black Field Agents. There were four levels to field agents; level one white, level two black, level three gold, and level four platinum. Each level had its own uniform. Level one was white with black gloves and boots. Level two was black with white gloves and boots there were also red markings on the gloves. Level three was gold with black gloves and boots there were also gold markings on the gloves and boots. The final level was a shiny platinum color with gold gloves and boots there was also a gold outline around the red R on the uniform.
They received their level two gear and uniforms. The gear included; Six six-way communicators, four pokéball belts (white), six stealth suits, and six team rocket pokédexs.
The gang came to Dark King in the legend room for their next target. Dark King was now looking at a stone tablet beneath the fire, ice, and lighting mural. Meowth came up to his friend as asked him about it. "Hey Dark King what does it say?"
"Disturb not the harmony of fire, ice, or lighting. Lest these titans wreak destruction on the world in which they clash.
Though the water's great guardian shall rise to quell the fighting alone its song shall fail lest the Earth shall turn to Ash.
Oh, chosen one into thine hands bring together all three the treasures combined to tame the beast of the sea. From the trio of islands ancient spheres shall you take for between life and death all the difference you will make.
Oh, chosen one ascend to the shrine to right what is wrong and the world will be healed by the guardian's song." Dark King said with his eyes closed.
"So you have memorized that one sire?" Con asked with curiosity.
"Indeed I have. My brother watches over the shrine mentioned in the tablet. The chosen one will come when he is needed. I want all of you to keep an eye out for anyone named Ash." Everyone nodded eager to help.
"So that thing mentions treasure? Shouldn't we go steal the treasure?" James asked hoping for a yes.
"Heavens no! The chosen one must use the treasures to save the world when the time comes. So we will leave the sacred spheres be." Dark King hissed.
"Set course for the Orange Islands." Dark King instructed once they reached the bridge.
A/N: That's Chapter I. I hope people like it, I tried to find all my mistakes.
