Tracey looked over Dawn's shoulder.
"Woah."

A Weavile was standing alongside a tall girl with long red/purple hair. A man with blue/purple hair stood beside her, holding a rose. At their feet stood a Meowth with a bonnet on its blocky head.

"Let's get out of here before they snatch Pikachu," Ash said, quietly. Team Rocket suddenly began their motto and ripped off their disguises to reveal.... the usual white outfit. James' had a spaghetti stain on it, rather ruining the scary image. Meowth bobbed up at the end of the motto - "Meowth - that's me!"

"Yes, yes, yes," Ash said. "We know all that. Come on, guys, let's go."

"Yeah," Tracey and Dawn said. Dawn returned her Scyther and Piplup. Tracey did the same with his Venonat and Marill.

They walked out of the town, being followed at a run by Team Rocket.
"You don't get it!" Jessie was crying.

"We do," Dawn said exasperatedly. "You're gonna try to steal our Pokemon, we're gonna beat you and you're gonna fly off into space and go 'ding!' like you always do. It's always the same. Actually, I'm surprised you're not in a full body cast."

"Nope!" Meowth cried.

"Well, what then?" Tracey stopped.

"The Weavile you saw isn't ours! It's EVIL!" James shrieked. He waved his rose around in the air to demonstrate.

"Evil?" Dawn questioned.

"Yes!" Team Rocket had reached them now, and they were standing around the three friends in a semi circle.

"Tell us," Dawns said. James smiled at her - he'd always thought she was the least twerpish of them all.

"Okay," Jessie said. "It's been following us for weeks. It steals the things we steal!"

"It steals other Pokemon?" Tracey said.

"Yeah!" Meowth cried.

"It's awful," James said, over dramatically.

"Well... what are you gonna do about it?" Ash said, blunt as usual.

"We don't know. We were going to ask you to help us... But then...." Jessie stammered. Meowth and James shuddered.

"What happened?" Tracey said, busily sketching Meowth, who was posing elaborately.

"The owner of the Weavile came along. He was so frightening," James said, eyes growing misty. "He said that we had to join up with him and his partner, the Weavile."

"The Weavile can talk!" Meowth said.

"It's like Meowth, only its accent is so much nicer," Jessie said.

"Alright, then, who is the owner?"

"A boy called... Skye, I think," James said. "He's good looking; you'd like him," he added, winking at Dawn.

"I know him!" Tracey said. "He came to visit Professor Oak. He tried to steal one of his experiments. We caught him, though. He promised not to do it again. He took a Sneasel from the lab. It must be the Weavile."

"So..." Ash mused, trying to hide the fact that he was completely oblivious to what was going on. "He's trying to start a new Team Rocket?"

"Maybe," James said. "Come on, we'll take you to him."

The three friends walked after Team Rocket back along the road to Solaceon Town. "Right," Jessie said. "We'll take you to his lab first and if he's not there we'll take you to where his Weavile always met us."

"You met up with his Weavile?" Ash said.

"Yes, they did," came a voice behind Tracey.

The Weavile stood there, Pikachu helpless in its claws.