Case of Team Rocket.
Author's note: Yes, I'm finally starting on the aftermath of "Sailor Moon: Truth of Nightmares" despite this being a Pokemon and Final Fantasy VII crossover fic, but it's still part of the Sailor Moon Continuum Universe.
I don't own anything here.
Chapter 1: Blast to the Past.
Year: 1999-September-one month after the events of Sailor Moon: Truth of Nightmares...
A month ago, the former trio members of the evil Organization known as Team Rocket, Jessie, James and Meowth, had barely just had three weeks of rest after they helped the 'Sailor Twerps' to defeat another Organization filled with Nobodies to save the Realm of Light, only to be dragged into another crazy adventure to save the realm, this time from an 8,000 year old Sorceress named Ultimecia, and that Sailor Moon's connections with King Mickey, that broody swordsman named Cloud and his friend Tifa, and others in Radiant Garden(except Merlin) was revealed.
Now the three of them, finally having a month off, were still looking for a new purpose in life without splitting up, since they belonged together, as Serena had told them a year ago when they were fired from the Team Rocket organization. Each time they considered in joining the Sailor Team themselves, it resulted in them reconsidering before re-reconsidering. They still had no idea how the experiences the kids they followed since meeting Ash Ketchum and Pikachu a year ago worked, but that wasn't what was on their minds right now.
Instead, they had plans to find out where the twerps had in mind, only to find that they weren't even in Duloc or at Shrek's Swamp, so they retreated to the forest, wandering aimlessly.
The same forest they, Serena, Rini, Shrek, Donkey and Fiona had met the weird french version of Robin Hood, but they didn't care about that.
"Not a trace of those Sailor Twerps." Jessie grumbled, as she held her stomach since she was starving. In fact, her two best friends were starving as well, since they had copied her. "How could've we lost them?"
"Gone." James replied.
"And in a blink of an eye." Meowth concluded.
Sighing in disappointment, Jessie moaned, "We blew another chance to become members of the Sailor Team."
There was a moment of pause as the trio walked, before James whined like a child, "I'm hungry."
"No kiddin'." Meowth agreed, feeling the painful knowlage of his empty belly that was demanding for food and soon. "If we don't find a nibble pretty quick, I'm gonna collapse."
Jessie, as though remembering something that seemed to be James' fault, turned to the blue-haired man in annoyance and said to him, "If you hadn't got us caught snatching apples at the apple farmer's farm, we wouldn't have been resulted into this situation."
"Why that's the thanks I get for doing my best in breaking our old stealing habits." James, now annoyed by his friend's assult, replied.
"Let's talk about breaking our stealing habits and your clumsy habits!" Jessie argued.
"How about breaking up the blasting off habits firstly done by the twerp's Pikachu!" James snapped in return, the two of them now getting into one of their bickering arguements.
"Perhaps it's because our blasting off expertise really does come from your side of the family!"
"Oh yeah! Take that back!"
"Oh yeah, you incompetent blue-haired human version of the sloth-twerp!"
"Well at least I don't have the same ugliness as the Orge-twerp!"
Jessie was fuming now as her face was bright red in anger, yelling, "That's the second time you crossed that line, buster!"
James was grinning now, pleased that he got through to Jessie and said to himself, cheekily, "Ah yes, that does the trick all the time...Ah..." before he then began to mock her in a sing-song voice, "Ugly, ugly, ugly, Jessie is so ugly!"
Having enough of this, Jessie covered her ears with her hands while mockingly singing aloud to block James's annoying voice, "La la la la la, I'm not listening!"
As the two humans were bickering, possibly due to one, this morning's attempts for breakfest failed and two, with the big hunger, it can make someone go absolutely crazy, not to mention that this was totally ridiculous, Meowth slumped before asking himself in disbelief, "And the Sailor Twerps sometimes need help from these two clowns?" wishing for this fight to stop so that they can get something to eat soon and then continue doing either looking for new jobs or search to where the Sailor Team had gone off to this time.
Best chances were that the twerps had either gone off back to Earth or were heading out to Far Far Away. Too bad that wasn't the case since Team Rocket really didn't know what the Sailor Team were doing today and then tomorrow.
They also failed to notice a ripple in Space and Time that began to open up above them in blue and white lights, until they did at least notice an unusual gust of wind that seemed to be attempting to lift them up like a tornado. The good news was that it stopped Jessie and James' arguement from going too far.
The bad news was that when the trio looked up, fear quickly started to take them once again, and they flinched in fear, becoming nervous as the portal opened up to somewhere above them. They didn't know where it went, either to another world or into another time, they weren't certain, but whatever it was, it wasn't good at all.
"What's d'at!?" Meowth exclaimed, his eyes going all wide.
"It's either a portal to another world, or to another time..." James mumbled as he was quickly running out of ideas about this paticular portal, "Or else to our untimely demise...!"
"Where's the Sailor Twerps when you need them!" Jessie shrieked, "I'm too young, beautiful and fragile to die!"
Whatever it was, it didn't seem to be leaving them alone. Instead, it was sucking them up into it, and the trio quickly clinged and hanged onto the nearest tree in hopes to prevent themselves from being blasted off to somewhere else or to their deaths, but the current winds was quickly winning.
"How many times do we have this kind of bad luck!?" Jessie screamed.
"It must be Karma!" James screamed.
"Well, whatever it is, prepare for another crash landing somewhere's!" Meowth concluded as he and his best friends lost their battle and their grip, being sucked into the portal that was probably about the same size as Dragon and the trio were screaming.
"We're blasting off again!" Team Rocket cried out in unison, disappearing into the portal which then closed up once they were in, and as soon as it appeared, it disappeared and leaving the area back to normal, except for one thing.
Team Rocket had been taken away from this world...and possibly from the present.
Jessie, James and Meowth were being waved and thrown and flown all over the place in the strange ripples all around them, and even passing Scrat who was holding a miniture Time-Machine as he searched for his Acorn, before the trio eventually fell into an opening of light and were now falling, Meowth was flying into an oppisite direction as they screamed, and James cried out, "Look out BELOOOOOOW!"
"Speak for YOURSEEEELLLFFFF!" Meowth screamed loudly as he fell. He cried out in alarm as he continued to fall and get closer and closer to the portal...
8,000 years earlier...one day after the events of Kingdom Hearts-Moon Pass Time...
It's been at least two days since Rufus survived the attack of the WEAPON, two days since he survived, but the ShinRa Building had not. It's been one day since the, as he put it, the "The Fated Day" or simply as "that day". The Turks couldn't guarantee Rufus' safety at Midgar's hospital because it was filled with all sorts of people therefore after Rufus woke up, Reno reported their situation to him and they moved to a small house in Kalm that Shinra owned. They could have travelled further away because they had access to a helicopter but, Rufus chose Kalm. Rufus had moved respecting his subordinate's advice but he didn't believe in the aesthetics of running away when the planet was going to be destroyed.
In the end, it was the Lifestream, perhaps the power of this so called Kingdom Hearts, the heart of the world, that destroyed meteor and saved itself and it's inhabits. He had just sent his four remaining members of the ShinRa Company, the Turks-Tseng, Rude, Reno and Elena-back to Midgar to their orders.
He still remembered the conversation that had the Turks announce their decision to stay with him.
"Tseng, Reno, Rude, Elena," Rufus had began talking to the four Turks that remained the next morning after the Lifestream had burst out of the Planet, a few hours ago "What do you all plan to do from here?"
Reno had shrugged and said with seriousness and, perhaps doubtfulness, "I don't remember you firing us." and Tseng, Rude and Elena all nodded in agreement. Plus, neither of them had anywhere else to go now that it came to this. Neither of the four had any families aside from Elena who's older sister was missing since before Sephiroth's return. None of them were certain if she was still alive or not. The rest of their families were gone too, years before this happened.
So Rufus had told them their next assignment. One was to return to Midgar and find out the situation there and the second was to gather friends.
"Just because people may be our staff doesn't mean they're friends. Understood?" Rufus told them, Reno entirely.
"I know that." Reno replied, before questioning, "Don't mean to question you, sir, but what use will it be gathering friends now? What are you going to do?"
"I want information for now no matter how little or how much." Rufus had answered.
Before they left, he told Tseng, his most trusted ally right now, and the man who had known him far better than anyone else, even his own father, through the years since Rufus was a child. "I'm sure you've been reprimanded—"
Tseng kindly interrupted and told the President, "There are still many things that only Shinra can accomplish."
Rufus nodded satisfied at his response. He was certain that he would be enjoying himself.
Now he was on his own, waiting for the return of his Turks. Rufus already knew he had fractured ribs and a broken right heel and the pain they were causing him meant he needed the assistance of a wheelchair but, he still hadn't lost his dignity. His heel was in a cast and his neck, chest and waist were bandaged heavily so it was still difficult for him to move around without his wheel chair, which was a downside.
The house in Kalm had two floors – On the first floor there was a living room, a dining room, a small kitchen, bathroom and a toilet. The second floor had three bedrooms and Rufus was in one of them. Rufus gazed over the town from the window. The closed curtains had a small gap he could peep through and people can be seen hurrying about in the streets.
Kalm was also damaged by the Lifestream but there weren't any houses damaged to the point that they were uninhabitable. For that very reason, there were so many refugees from Midgar who were all here seeking for such a home that it surprised Rufus.
However, he had to be discrete and with no bodyguards present he couldn't risk getting into contact with any of these people. He felt very uneasy when he realised that only a single wall partitioned him from the anxious and irritated crowds outside. And it was just the average wall too, not the thick reinforced walls that the Shinra Building had.
Tseng had insisted someone stayed to guard him but Rufus declined. He smiled bitterly at the sense of uselessness he felt and thought over things again. The Shinra Building was a fortress his father built. It could be said that it was a symbol of his father. A son must leave his father's house one day and work his own way up starting from scratch. It was normal. Now that time has come for him. It was no time to fear the public. He had to dive in and accomplish whatever that he must— And that could only be the reconstruction of the world.
Suddenly something very unusual happened, one that might give him a bit of a clue on the mystery of where those three unusual heroes that teamed up with both Cloud's team to defeat Sephiroth, and Squall's team to defeat Ultimecia. In the Turks' final confrontion with their enemies, they told them what they learned about Sailor Moon, the mysterious but seemingly normally personalited teenager, and her two companions, Mickey Mouse and Loran the Pokemon, in a species of a Grovyle.
The three of them, according to Tseng and Reno, had come from the future, just like Ultimecia. But unlike the evil sorceress, Sailor Moon and her two allies were sent to help save this world and Time itself from the evil that threatened the Planet. It seemed to include ShinRa as well.
A strange disturbance appeared just over his bed, and Rufus wheeled away slightly in caution. He wasn't taking any chances. Was this the work of a sorceress? He couldn't tell. He could hear a scream becoming louder and louder, until an unusual small figure was spat out and crashed into the bed, before the mattress springs bounced the figure off and it crashed onto the floor, which seemed comical.
"What in the world...?" Rufus muttered in disbelief. He then noticed the strange hole vanish into nothing, as though it didn't appear at all to begin. Cautionly and curious, Rufus wheeled around the left side of the bed, just as the figure pushed itself up. Little did he knew that it was Meowth who was now seeing multiple Torchics circle around his head as he tried to rid the dizzy spells.
Groaning, Meowth, unaware of Rufus's pressence, after the dizzy spells eased off, grumbled to himself as he was feeling sore from the uncomfortable landing, "Could d'ings get any worse?"
"A talking feline that isn't Reeve's stupid robot cat?" Rufus asked, admittedly surprised, which got Meowth's attention. "With a golden charm on his forehead, for that matter. I'd have to say that you're very unusual."
Now fully aware, Meowth became quite surprised and asked, "Ah! What's goin' on?" before looking around and, realising he was inside a bedroom with an injured human in someplace different, asked again, "Where am I?"
"In the safe house within Kalm, as long as you're not dangerous." Rufus answered. Despite this feline being very unusual, at least this cat was in confusion at the moment.
"Hey, what's d'at supposed to mean!?" Meowth exclaimed angrily as he leaped up and glared at the President. Who did this guy think he was calling him dangerous? Sure he may be a scratch-cat Pokemon with claws, but he wasn't dangerous. Sheesh, he will never understand humans.
"Well, I've never seen anyone like you before." Rufus smirked. He then asked, "What are you, exactly, little one?"
"You can't tell?" Meowth asked in disbelief, before answering, "I'm a Meowth. You know, a Pokemon?" before he froze in realization. He remembered the portal that separated him from Jessie and James...and that if this guy didn't recongise his idenity as a Pokemon, that meant that he was in another world. He really should've kept his mouth shut.
"Hmm..." Rufus thought deeply, before realising, "Then I gather you know another Pokemon named Loran?"
Meowth froze. Loran, that name belonged to the Blu-ish green Grovyle who was with Sailor Moon and the Sailor Team a month earlier. According to Loran, Sailor Moon and King Mickey, the three of them travelled through time and met in the original world of Kingdom Hearts, having met past versions of Cloud, Leon and their groups to defeat Sephiroth and Ultimecia, before losing their memories when they went back to their worlds, up until a month...right? Suddenly it made sense to Meowth and he freaked out.
"AAAHHHH! I'M IN THE PAST!?" Meowth cried out, but was smart enough not to let voice be heard by the people outside of the house in Kalm. He collasped onto the bed and began to sob hysterically, "That great big hole vortex must've caused me, Jessie and James to end up here...with no way to go home!" before crying loudly, letting out waterworks of tears.
For once in his life, Rufus was dumbfounded at the reaction of the strange feline. He then decided to ask again, "So you do know Loran, then. Then perhaps you know a young girl whose name is Sailor Moon?"
Meowth stopped crying but still looked miserable as he answered, "I've known that Sailor Twerp for a year already, but she ain't the first kid I came across with, in the future I mean. The first kid I've met was a ten year old boy who me and my pals have been following since his first day of travelling...and that Twerp always beats us!" he soon returned to being annoyed.
"Hmph, so you're enemies with Sailor Moon and her friends...even by being defeated by a ten year old boy." Rufus thought with a smirk.
"Trust me. Kids in the future those days are more mature and smarter...that or Team Rocket are just losers." Meowth continued.
"Team Rocket?" Rufus asked.
Meowth then grinned and explained, "The organization of Pokemon thieves of course. My pals and I used to be members of Team Rocket ourselves. The goal was for world domenation..." then he frowned miserably again and added, "Too bad the Twerp and his twerpy pals always beat us and even our boss, then later we met the Sailor Twerp and her Sailor Twerpy pals, and da't was the last straw for the boss with us, so we ended up fired."
He then continued after a slight pause," But thanks to the Sailor Twerp I guess she made us realize that we still had each other, so, we just kept following them to cause trouble, taking on occasional jobs or even help her and her other twerpy friends to defeat other bad guys who try to destroy the entire universe. We still keep the Team Rocket title to ourselves."
"I see." Rufus thought, "It seems Sailor Moon has a lot of friends, as well as enemies. She must be pretty busy. What about Mickey Mouse?"
Meowth knew that he shouldn't reveal the fact that Mickey was a King now, so he just said, "Helping out with his pals too. Last I checked, those kids are waitin' for one of their pals to give birth to a new baby."
"What about you?"
"Me, Jessie and James were lost in the forest while tryin' to find them. They went out somewhere's before we arrived." Meowth answered, before his stomach growled loudly, once again announcing it's displeasure lacking food. He blushed in embarrassment as he added, "And lookin' for somethin' to eat."
"What do you usually eat, if you don't mind me asking?" Rufus questioned.
Meowth rolled his eyes and said, "Look, pal. I'm not a carnivore if d'at's what you're worried about. I eat what you humans eat, like apples, ice cream and all d'at." before complaining, "Which d'inkin' all of the food is making me even more hungry. I'd easily settle for just a single chocolate chip cookie."
Then he thought of something and asked, "How do you know about the twerps? Who are you anyways?"
The President smirked and answered in amusement, "Rufus Shinra, President of the Shinra Inc. Or rather, what's left of it."
Meowth was shocked. Rufus Shinra...the Rufus? The same guy who Sailor Moon mentioned to have died? But how was it possible for him to be alive now? "You're the President the Sailor Twerp talked about!?" He asked, before shaking his head and said, "But she, Mickey-Squeaky and Lizard-boy said you died when a giant monster caused your office to explode!"
"Hmm, so they and their friends witnessed that? No surprise. It's obvious they do not know that I'm very well still alive. I did suffer injuries, but I managed to survive and escape through the escape route. Reno and Rude were the ones who had found me, during the moment when the world was about to end."
Meowth was a bit impressed as he admitted, "I guess d'at means you're a lucky type to survive dangerous perils. D'at's somethin' you, me, Jessie and James have in common then. Except in our case it's almost like 24/7."
"Quite." Rufus chuckled. The door bell suddenly rang. It rang once then paused. Another ring. He and Meowth both glanced at each other. Rufus was going to ignore it, it rang again. It was rang the wrong way. It wasn't someone he knew.
"Ain't there anybody here to answer the door?" Meowth asked with a quirked eyebrow to the President.
"I've...sent my Turks out on an assignment. I'm alone here right, now with you. It's also the wrong ring, so it's not them either." Rufus admitted. Soon afterwards, he could hear someone trying to break their way in through the door.
Meowth flinched, before shuddering nervously and said, "Somethin' ain't right here...!"
Rufus nodded in agreement as he wheeled himself towards the bed, taking out a pistol from underneath the pillow and hoped nothing dangerous was about to happen. "I could use your help to block the door."
'Team Rocket's usually the crooks that break into places, but we haven't broken in like d'is in ages.' Meowth thought to himself as he helped the President to drag a chair over to the door from the window and blocked it. It seemed to work and the intruders seemed to have given up. But almost immediately afterwards, glass could be heard being broken and a number of intruders had broken their way inside, with a number of them breaking down the door in Rufus's room.
Meowth froze in horror as he could see numberous weapons in the intruders' hands. Rufus on the other hand, seemed shockingly calm as he removed the safety lock on his pistol.
'Yup. It just got worse.' Meowth thought to himself.
Whoever sent him to the past of another world must've thought of this as a sick joke.
TASHASAUROUS
Presents...
A Pokemon, Final Fantasy VII, Sailor Moon, Kingdom Hearts, Shrek, Cardcaptor Sakura and Ice Age Crossover...
CASE OF TEAM ROCKET.
A/N: This is based on the OTWTAS: Case of Shinra since it's one of my favorites.