RegiGod: So a new story... my other reviewers are probably going to kill me for what I did to my other stories but enough about that! I hope you'll enjoy this story!
Disclaimer: I don't own any characters that are involved in this story except for Josh and I don't own Pokemon either. I own the plot line.
Warning: This story contains slash/shounen-ai which means boy x boy and if you don't like it, please leave and never shadow my doorstep again!
Coupling: Palletshipping; Ash/Gary; ShiShi (A/N: Should I be any more clearer than this? XD)
Beta Reader: Don't have one and I will never have one. How else will I improve if I have one?
Note: Have fun reading this chapter and don't forget to leave me a review!
Turn Back Time
"How are we going to explain our latest failure to the boss Jessie? He's sure to kill us this time after all the money and time we've spent trying to go after the twerp's Pikachu!" James nervously stood next to the female Rocket as she began to dial the number that connected her directly to the boss.
"You know… why is it every time we call the boss, we call him in the telephone booth!? If yous two don't start doing things right, we're going hit rock bottom of Team Rocket's corporation!" Meowth screamed at the two as if he was the only one who hasn't done anything wrong during their adventures together. James pondered on what the talking cat had said and crossed his arms together."I thought we were already rock bottom?" James asked quizzically. Jessie continued to ignore her two teammates as a voice spoke up from the other line.
"Hello. Yes, I would like to speak to the boss. Yes, I'll wait." Jessie placed her free right hand on her hip as she slowly tapped on herself waiting for the boss's voice to come. Meowth continued to look at the two humans but was more intrigued by the emotions that were going through James's face.
"What's wrong Jimmy? Yous look like you just saw a Gengar or somethin." James's eyes lowered to the cat as he spoke.
"I don't know Meowth but I have a feeling this phone call is going to bring bad things for us…" Meowth simply shrugged as he looked away.
"Aren't these phone calls always bad anyway?" The pokemon asked as if James wasn't there through all the times their boss has screamed and lectured them time after time again.
"This is different Meowth. It's like… something worse is going to occur after this phone call than they usually do." Meowth shrugged it off mentally as Jessie began to speak.
"Hello boss! How are you this fine day?" James couldn't help but bring himself closer to the phone so he could hear what the boss was saying to his teammate.
"Ugh, you again. What do you want this time?" Giovanni simply ignored her question and the nice talk Jessie usually does in the beginning of conversations to make her boss feel at ease. He knew that whatever this call was, it was going to be a bad report to him knowing these three bumbling idiots.
"Well sir… we're sorry to say this but we failed to capture the twerp's Pikachu with your latest robot." That's when both Meowth's and James's jaws just drop down out of disbelief. Did Jessie say that… bluntly? Without any tries of beating around the bush?
"YOU WHAT!?" Giovanni was right yet again. These fools had failed him once more. James could hear his boss sigh out of stress as he waited for either the boss or his teammate to carry on the conversation. "I've had it with your failures!" With the way their boss was screaming at them, Jessie has to put the phone away from her ear at least a few inches so she wouldn't become deaf. The three cringed at their boss's tone. "That's it! I'm sending the best member of Team Rocket down to your location and he will make sure you don't fail me again!" After that, all they could hear was a beeping noise coming out of the phone.
"The best member of Team Rocket? Wonder who that could be…" said Jessie as she hung up the phone and stepped out of the booth with James. "Anyway, what town are we in?" Both of her teammates shrugged their shoulders as she sighed that they weren't useful at all at the moment. She knew at least they were in the Johto region since they followed the twerp and his friends here but she couldn't recognize the town.
"I think we're in Cherrygrove City." said James. That caught the attention of Jessie as she stared at the male Rocket.
"And how exactly do you know that?" James pointed somewhere behind her making Jessie turn around. There it was… a pokemon center that had the words, 'Cherrygrove City' right above it. Gee, that wasn't obvious at all. Suddenly, their stomachs rumbled simultaneously as all of them chuckled in embarrassment. "Maybe we should get something to eat?"
"But how Jessie? We have no money at all!" exclaimed Meowth.
"Well maybe if you would learn pay day, we would have all the money we would need now wouldn't we!?" shouted Jessie which diverted the attention of a few people near them to her. Some people suddenly began to walk away when they saw and recognized the letter 'R' imprinted on their upper clothing.
"If yous two were better trainers, I would have learned it by now! But no, you can't even train your Arbok or your Weezing right." This got the two rockets enraged and as they were about to choke the cat, a voice appeared next to them.
"Uh Hi… are you three the people who called the boss saying you failed for the millionth time in a row wasting so much money for the corporation and requested my help?" The trio began to observe the intruder. He was near the twerp's height if not a little bit taller, wore a blue hat that had the legendary pokemon Rayquaza on it, had black spiky hair just like the twerp's, his eyes were brown and his face resembled a cute looking guy, a white collared shirt with blue stripes, long jeans, seemed to be the age around the twerp's and to top it all off, blue sneakers. This guy must really like the color blue whoever he is…
"So what if we are?" Meowth asked in a defensive tone at the way the intruder had described them.
"Well I'm Josh." The boy happily exclaimed as he shook the trio's hands one after another. "I'm here to help you with your problems!" The trio blinked their eyes in bewilderment.
"You can't be the best Team Rocket member are you? I mean, you look so young!" James said as the three of them continued to blink at him.
"Yep, that's me! I look young but I'm actually 17. Pretty cool huh?" Neither one of the trio knew what to say to that.
"Er… right." Again, the trio's stomachs rumbled, this time much louder than it was, and all Josh could do was laugh.
"Sounds like you three are hungry. Want to stop by a restaurant as you tell me who this twerp and his Pikachu are?" The three nodded gleefully as Josh smiled once more and led them to a nearby restaurant named, Portobello. Behind Josh, the three began to whisper with one another.
"For being the best member of Team Rocket, he sure is nice." said Meowth as both Jessie and James agreed.
"And he sure is young."
"And he's cute too for his age." James and Meowth stared at Jessie in a weird way but Jessie was oblivious to their looks as she was only wanted to eat at the moment.
"I always expected the best member to be a snob or something with a mean personality." stated Meowth. The three finally stopped whispering as they entered the restaurant which seemed to be of a first class restaurant.
"Well, here we are." Josh turned around to face the trio who seemed to be nervous for a reason he did not know. "Is something wrong?" James merely pointed at his shirt which had the red letter 'R' on it. The teenager simply chuckled which confused James and Jessie. "Don't worry. If you guys didn't know, this restaurant is owned and operated by Team Rocket members." As they walked further in, one of the waiters soon approached them immediately as he saw Josh and led them to a table nearby as the trio looked all around.
"What an impressive place. I didn't know our group had restaurants." They soon sat down near a table given to them by the waiter suited for four people. Josh sat directly in front of James and Jessie in front of Meowth.
"Really? We have restaurants placed all around in both the Kanto and Johto region but there aren't any in the Hoenn region." The last region that was said left the trio's minds blank. They have never heard of this region before until now and by Josh's facial expression, he expected that of them. "And it appears your little pokemon here can talk in our language."
"Huh? Hey that's right! How come you weren't surprised when I started speaking human to ya?" Josh shrugged and looked at the menu placed in front of him on the table. "For a person like me, I should expect everything… even if they seem outlandish." Outlandish? This guy sure knows some big words…
"If you don't mind me asking…" Josh looked up from the menu to the girl seated to the left of him. "Where's the Hoenn region?"
"Well, it's a bit far off from here but if you leave from New Bark Town and head on south, you can catch a boat there that you can take to go to the Hoenn region. Not many people know about that place yet… or of its pokemon." James and Jessie glanced at each other before looking at their menu quickly ordering their meals when the waiter arrived.
A few minutes later…
"Now that we've gotten to know each other real well, why don't you tell me about this twerp?" Jessie glared at something behind me but I didn't take a look, yet.
"He's right behind you." She pointed at the spot where she was glaring at a few seconds ago as Josh turned around. All he saw was another trio comprised of two guys and a girl. The girl had red hair, a yellow shirt, red strappings on her shirt, and really short blue jeans. One of the guys had a color between brown and black for his hair and his face seemed pretty tough. He wore a green shirt inside of his brown vest and wore brown baggy pants. The other boy wore a red and white hat with a black shirt and a blue and white jacket on. He too had black spiky hair like Josh's and in Josh's opinion, he was pretty cute out of the three. He also wore long pants jeans and his face seemed determined to do just about anything.
"Yes… but who's the twerp?" His question was soon answered when he saw a Pikachu atop the cute boy's shoulder. "Ah, let me guess. It's the boy with the Pikachu on his shoulder isn't it?" The Rocket trio simply made an agreeing sound as Josh turned back around to see his peers finished with their meals. "That was rather quick. You three must have been hungry." The trio chuckled in embarrassment but their expression soon changed a second later.
"So now that the twerp is here, you can take him down!" Josh looked at them with one eye closed as he took a sip of his water.
"I'm here to make sure you do your job right; not do it for you. Besides, I'm sure you can take him down easily on our turf, don't you?" Josh winked at the three of them as they soon understood what he meant. "They'll be around at the back of the building in about ten minutes so get your butts moving and ready yourselves until that time comes."
"How do you know that?" Josh winked at James which made him feel uneasy.
"Trust me, I know. Just get moving and if you need any help, just call a waiter or someone in black to help out. They ARE team rocket members as well and can battle." The trio ran towards the back of the restaurant as Josh finished up his meal quickly. He can only wonder if this trio was really as bad as the boss had told him over the phone or if he was exaggerating a whole lot. Whatever the case was, Josh wanted to know who the twerp was… and that's when he realized something. He didn't even get his real name from those dimwits. He sighed exasperatedly as he stood up from the table not having to pay for the bill since he was the best member of Team Rocket and can do just about anything. He walked over to the table where it held the three people that Jessie and James could not beat at all. "What a cute Pikachu! Mind if I pet him?"
"I don't think you would want to do that." The twerp said while chuckling. "Pikachu doesn't really like strangers." The three of them had their gazes on Josh as he stared at the yellow pokemon. Pikachu, of course, stared back at this new person.
"That's too bad. Your Pikachu seems to be in pretty good shape and strong as well." Josh did not hesitate in giving a compliment to a cute boy since after all, he was bisexual which was something not a lot of people knew. "You must be a pretty good trainer."
"Thanks." The twerp smiled which made Josh smile as well.
"Let me introduce myself. My name is Josh. I come from the region of Hoenn." He placed his hand in front of the twerp as he did the same.
"Nice to meet you Josh. My name's Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town." Ash gladly shook his new friend's hand as he began to introduce his two friends. Josh finally knew the name of the twerp and it seemed fitting for someone like him. He kind of liked the name actually. "And these are my two friends."
"Hey. I'm Brock from Pewter City."
"And I'm Misty from Cerulean City."
"Nice to meet the both of you as well." That wasn't the truth at all… in fact, Josh was only interested in the boy named Ash Ketchum.
"Say… you said you were from Hoenn right?" asked Brock as Josh nodded. "Isn't that a bit far off from here? I heard that region has pokemon that aren't found in Kanto or in Johto."
"That's correct. There are pokemon there that can't be found in the Kanto or Johto region and yes, it's almost a week cruise to get here from Hoenn."
"That's pretty cool! You wouldn't happen to have any of those pokemon here from that region would you?" The Rocket member smiled at Ash's interest.
"I actually do but I wouldn't want to show them here. It would get a lot of people's attention and I wouldn't want that." The trio nodded in understanding but that didn't stop Ash from asking more questions.
"Can we see them outside then?" Josh thought about that for a moment and made his decision.
"I don't know… maybe if you really want to. We should go around back where there will be less people to see us." The trio made shouts of excitement and anxiety as they finished their meals hurriedly without hesitation. 'Wow… the people here can really finish their meals quickly…' thought Josh.
Meanwhile… behind the restaurant
"Did any of you notice that guy didn't have the letter 'R' anywhere on his clothing like the rest of us does?" Both James and Meowth nodded and that only left Jessie to wonder why he didn't have the letter on him.
"Does it matter? As long as he's wit us, we got nothing to worry about." Jessie looked at the cat as James agreed.
"Yeah, you're right. I shouldn't worry about small things should I?" Jessie said as she laughed at herself.
"You got that right! You look ugly when you worry." A line was cut and that furiously made Jessie upset as she began to chase Meowth around like a game of cat and mice.
"Team Rocket!? What are you doing here!?" Ash's voice was sound through the trio's ears and that only made them smile deviously.
"Looks like it's our time to shine!" James and Jessie soon stood next to one another with their backs facing one another.
"To protect the world from 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!"
"Meowth! That's right!" Josh was just… shocked at what he had witnessed. What was this…? Even though it made no sense, he kind of liked the motto. All he thought was that there was something missing in it…
"Don't you think after listening to your dumb motto a million times, we would have known it by now?" screamed the red head as James and Jessie took a look at each other.
"Yeah… why do we say the same thing over and over?" asked James and Jessie's mouth was hanging.
"James! That is our motto you're talking about! It is what we say to put the fear in people's hearts when we are about to strike!"
"As if anyone is afraid of you…" mumbled Misty to herself but Jessie caught wind of what she had said.
"How dare you say that to us! We'll make you pay and this time, this will be the last time you'll mock us! Go Arbok!" Jessie threw a pokeball in front of her and a blinding light came out, revealing a snake like pokemon.
"You too Weezing! Show them what you got!" James too threw a pokeball and another blinding light came out revealing a balloon like pokemon.
"Haven't you two learned already? You'll never take my Pikachu away! Go Pikachu!" Pikachu obeyed as he jumped off his master's shoulder and prepared himself for battle. "Pikachu, use your thunder and finish this in one strike!"
"Pika… chu!" The yellow rat pokemon soon sent out an incredible energy of electricity right at Arbok and Weezing who seem to have fainted quickly after being shocked just once. Josh slapped himself on the face… he could not believe how pathetic their pokemon were. That Arbok and Weezing definitely need more training…
"Arbok!" Jessie cried out for her pokemon as James did the same for his Weezing. "Meowth, get out there and do something!" Meowth looked at Jessie in a nervous way.
"Meowth? What can I do?" Jessie quickly looked at Josh and he could only hope that she wasn't about to call him for something.
"Meowth, get help." Jessie said simply without removing her eyes at Josh who from this perspective was taller than the twerp but shorter than that guy called Brock. The cat nodded as he ran back into the building and a few seconds later, waiters came out along with Meowth.
"What the…" Ash was apparently shocked by the sudden appearance of waiters as they suddenly removed their clothing to reveal black clothes with white gloves and shoes and a red letter 'R' on their chests which shocked Ash and his group of friends.
"Get that Pikachu! It's the strongest Pikachu ever and we need to deliver that pokemon to the boss!" commanded Jessie as the group of "waiters" threw pokeballs in front of them revealing multiple pokemon.
"This doesn't look good Ash." said Brock warily.
"Don't worry. We can handle this." Josh looked at Ash mystified at his determination. And at the same time, it only made Josh infatuated with Ash even more. "Go Charizard!" He threw a pokeball next to his Pikachu revealing a huge, red, fire-breathing dragon. "All right guys. We need to work together to win this!" Both Pikachu and Charizard nodded.
A few minutes later…
Josh was surprised once more. Ash Ketchum, the twerp, had just beaten all those waiters with skill. This boy was really something. Their pokemon, including them, lay fainted on the ground. Jessie was not at all happy about this development which caused her to do something Josh did not like at all.
"Josh come on! Are you going to help us capture that Pikachu?" Ash, Misty, and Brock turned to Josh and seemed to be confused. He sighed sadly… knowing that now he wouldn't be able to get close to this cute boy he had just found today. He walked from the side of the twerps and to the side of Team Rocket.
"Josh?" Ash asked in a tone as if Josh had betrayed him. His back was still facing them and he could only stare at the trio whom he had fed today.
"I'm sorry that we couldn't meet under different circumstances Ash but perhaps someday in the future, we'll talk with one another again. For now, it is time for us to leave." James and Jessie gasped at his decision.
"What do you mean?" James asked.
"You're not going to help us!?" asked Jessie angrily.
"Of course I'm not. I did say that I was here to ensure you do your job right, not do it for you. And apparently, I've failed you two. Now come along now, we have things to do." Josh began to walk out of the alleyway and the trio quickly followed in his footsteps without a word. As soon as Josh turned the alleyway, he bumped into an unknown person harshly.
"Hey! Watch where you're going!" Josh shook his head by the bump to see a boy around his height with brown hair, a purple shirt, something that looked like a yin-yang pendant hung around his neck, blue pants, and brown boots. This boy was cute as well in his opinion.
"How dare you speak in such a way to Team Rocket's greatest member?" Jessie exclaimed as Josh only sweat dropped.
"It's okay Jessie. It was my fault and for that, I apologize." Josh smiled but the other boy didn't take his apology. Instead, it seemed he had other plans on how to handle Josh.
"The greatest member in Team Rocket eh? Then I challenge you to a pokemon battle! Right here, right now! If I win, I'll be known everywhere for defeating Giovanni's next man." The trio cheered Josh on to battle even though they completely had no idea if Josh really deserved that title. Suddenly, the other trio whom Josh had met in the restaurant ran out of the alleyway behind us and gasped for some reason.
"Gary! What are you doing here?" So Gary was his name eh… that name also seems fitting for a person like him as well thought Josh. They must know each other obviously.
"Well if it isn't Ashy-boy. I'm just about to battle Team Rocket's best member and win while you watch and be my cheerleader." Ash growled and began throwing insults at the brown haired boy but it seemed it didn't faze him one bit. Before Josh knew it, Jessie, James, and Meowth had disappeared. Looks like Josh is going to have to find them… so much work to do today.
"Gary, I hope you lose!"
"That's a dream that will never come true." Gary said flatly as he grabbed a pokeball on his waist. "Go Nidoking!" A purple colored pokemon appeared in front of Josh as he too grabbed a pokeball on his waist.
"We need a judge you know." Brock took a step forward and merely said, "I'll be the judge. This will be a 3 on 3 match between Gary Oak from Pallet Town and Josh, the greatest member in Team Rocket." Soon, the attention of people came to them as Josh could only smile.
"Go Gardevoir!" The sight of Josh's first pokemon was awarded with "Ooh" and "Ah." Gary took out his PokeDex but it was no use as his PokeDex knew nothing about Josh's Gardevoir.
"No matter. I'll still beat you!" Soon a shout was heard from the sidelines.
"That's a dream that will never come true!" Gary growled at Ash's remark as his focus came back to his Nidoking.
"Nidoking, horn drill!"
"Gardevoir, psychic attack." Soon enough, Nidoking's feet were no longer on the ground and instead, he was hovering in the air in pain by the psychic attack. In just a moment, Nidoking fell to the ground and fainted.
"Nidoking is out! Gardevoir is the winner!" Gary was now at a loss for words at what he saw. Just like everyone else who was watching this… it was amazing that Brock was still able to speak.
"Return Nidoking! Go Arcanine! Fire Blast!" Again, the same thing happened to the fire pokemon. Arcanine soon fainted after a psychic blast from Gardevoir. Gary was now shaking with fear and everyone on the side lines were so quiet that you could hear an ant skittering along the ground. Josh was still grinning like crazy as Gary recalled his pokemon and brought his head down.
"Arcanine is out! Gardevoir is the winner!" Josh looked at Ash and he could see that he was filled with fear if not excitement that was causing him to shake a bit.
"I… I c-can't beat-t you… I give up." Josh turned back to see Gary who had seem to lost all hope. Brock raised his right hand as he cleared his throat for what he was about to say.
"The winner is Josh!" Josh's grin grew as he recalled his pokemon. This was a quick battle…
"Return Gardevoir!" His eyes never left Gary as he began to speak." You did your best Gary but trust me when I say this, I'm in a whole other league. It would be unwise of you if you let this defeat get the best of you." In Josh's words, he was meaning every word of it. Soon, a balloon appeared above Josh with a ladder leading up to it right next to him. Josh looked up to see James looking down and knew that this was his ride. He climbed the ladder up and in the next minute, they were gone.
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