Chapter 3: Team Rage


I was floating out of my mom's room after she told me my father left for my own protection. I couldn't help but think about it and notice it didn't make much sense. If he wanted us to be protected, why didn't he just stay with us at the hall? I am sure Arceus would have allowed it. I thought to myself. Just then, I saw Celebi again and decided to clear this whole thing up. "Celebi? Can I ask you another favor?" I said approaching her.

"Of course." She said taking a sip of her berry juice she keeps in the fridge.

"I want you to take me back in time… This time to the tree of beginning 19 years ago. Preferably by where my mom sleeps."

"I guess… but why would you want to do this?" She asked.

"To settle something within my mind."

"I guess I can." She said, moving closer to me and surrounding us in a green light again. We appeared by the familiar little clearing where my mom puts all of her toys and we saw her floating around happily. "Is this what you wanted to see?" She asked giving me an odd look.

"No… I might have been too early." I said.

"No problem." She said, speeding up time like one would fast forward a movie. I could see the events that happened throughout the year. The leaves fall off the trees, the snow that blanketed the ground, the spring coming again and finally the day came when my mom came to the clearing looking sick. we fast forwarded past all of the events with the lucario and how Ash saved my mother for the second time.

"Slow it down please." I said as Ash followed mom to the clearing. I immediately regretted it as I began to see Ash who now looked in his late teens start taking off his shirt. Celebi sensed I really didn't want to see this as I covered my eyes and skipped the intimate details of my coming to be. I didn't have to wait long until I got what I went back in time to see. Ash was fully clothed again and my mom was sitting next to him on a cliff overlooking Cameron palace and the rest of the land before it.

"Ash." My mom said. "I am going to be a mother." She smiled at him. He didn't look at all surprised when she said this and actually looked relieved.

"I hope you know I can't stay though." When Ash said this, he pulled down his hat and I could see a few tears make its way down his face.

I could see mom tear up a little but she moved closer to Ash and licked his tears away. "I will raise him right. He will know his father is a hero and a courageous man."

"I know.. I just wish I could protect you here, instead of having to keep you away from the world. Whatever happens to him or her make sure they knows that I would trade anything to stay here with you." He hugged my mom.

"Aww…" Celebi said as she saw this. I couldn't help but feel that same emotion as I saw my parents hug under the moonlight.

I turned back to Celebi and smiled. "Thank you. I owe you big time."

I was interrupted when I bumped into Arceus' leg. "Good, I was just about to summon you." She said looking down on me. I went into a minor panic as I tried to see if I had done anything wrong. "Follow me." She said leading her way into her quarters. She shut her giant doors behind us and I sat down on my usual spot near a circular piece of glass that could have passed for a large table. On it were images off going on's on earth and it appears Arceus was watching her favorite pastime of people cooking.

"Is there something you need of me Mother?" I asked as I began to slightly worry again.

"Yes… I have noticed the topic of your past conversation with your Rob friend." She said seriously. I shrunk into my chair as I readied myself if she began to yell. "I am not overly excited about your decision." I began to feel my stomach sink. "But nor am I entirely displeased. I can sense that your friend is of pure heart and will do no harm to you, but there are others down there that are not. I ask that if you do decide to become his pokemon, you do so responsibly cautiously, and not recklessly." I felt relieved at the fact that I wasn't going to be yelled at and that she was actually more accepting than I hoped for.

"I am still unsure of the idea." I said. "I am just not sure if I am ready."

"Good… I hope your entire life isnt wasted to make one human rich and famous." She said with a nod. "But… That isn't the only thing on your mind. You yourself consider it one of your more prominent problems."

"It… It's Ash… My father." I started slowly. "I want to meet him and ask him so many things but I don't know if I will ever find him."

"Ahh. Your father… He is a good person. He had helped me when all the other humans had their back turned to me. I can summon him, if you so wish."

I thought long and hard about whether I wanted Arceus to summon Ash from whatever he was doing. "May I see what he is doing?" I asked, looking into the glass table to see a few cooks running around a kitchen.

"I think that is possible." She said, walking over to it and touching her nose to the smooth surface as the whole thing went dark. It was a few minutes before I could see it lighting up with a man in his mid 30's sitting in a chair with a pikachu sitting down beside him.

"Dad." I said, putting my paw to the screen.

"I can sense the want to meet him in you…" She said, using her mystical powers sending a note to him.

"Hmm?" He said, reaching down off the couch to pick up the yellow slip of paper. "You will be telepo-" He cut off as light engulfed him.

I saw a flash of light as Ash appeared on the floor in the middle of the room. He looked different then he did when I saw him the night I was conceived. He had on a plaid blue shirt that covered a rather slim frame and wore plain blue jeans. He looked bewildered at first and then he saw Arceus and it turned more to hysteria. He then took a look at me and his face softened. "Ash… You have been hereby summoned by this pokemon." Arceus said.

"Mew?" He said, walking up to me. He put his hands on my shoulders and smiled. I felt slightly uncomfortable and floated backwards a little, causing his smile to falter. He only stepped forward and gave me a hug. I let it happen as he apologized in my ear. "I am so sorry I couldn't be there. I just wanted you safe."

I finally got over my distrust and hugged back. "Why?" I asked.

"There was one group in particular. A team rocket division swore they would see anyone close to me dead." He whispered.

"One second." I said, walking out of Arceus' room. He followed me as I morphed into my female human form and walked down to my mom's room.

"So she raised a daughter." I heard him say behind me.

"Depends on how I feel." I said, about to knock on my moms door. I didn't get the chance because it swung open and my mother flew out, hearing Ash's voice. She flew into an all out tackle into Ash as she hugged him.

"I missed you so much!" I heard her say as his shirt muffled it.

"I missed you too." He said as he hugged back. I put my hands in my hoodie pocket and almost walked away until something stopped me. I turned back to see them still hugging and smiled.

Oh what the hell. I thought to myself as I walked up and gave them both a hug as well. "We are going to have a lot to catch up on." I said.

I let go of them and began walking to my room, motioning for them to follow. Ash entered my room and looked at amazement at my swords. I had remembered I still had a knife in my boot so I reached down to get it and threw it at the target at the wall. It hit with a thud slightly below the center. "Closer." I said with a pleased smile.

"Hmm." Ash said when he saw the knife. "Very good idea. Too many people you can't trust these days."

"Mmh." I said looking away as I thought about all the times I didn't want to trust ash. He saw this and scooted closer to me. I could tell it was awkward for him but he finally put his hand on my shoulder.

"I know... I might not have been your favorite person. I left your mom, you, the responsibilities, all of it. I can tell you this. I regret it. I wanted to see you grow up and I also wanted to see you safe. It was a split choice and I couldn't have both. I am sorry. But now, I hardly ever get visitors to my home in pallet."

I was lost for words. Not because of amazement or disbelief, but because I couldn't think straight with all the processing my brain was doing.

I noticed something move out of the corner of my eye. "Dont you have your own room?" I laughed.

"Yes... but your room sees so much more activity." Darkrai said sliding out of the wall.

"Hi darkrai." My mom said waving cheerily.

"As for you... I never thought I would see you again after you left sinnoh." Darkrai said, turning towards ash.

"Mmh... there are a few people here that would be surprised to see me." He said. "Some might not be too happy about it either."

"But I am not." Mom said hugging Ash again.

"Like I said, not too many people come to my home now and if you want to swing by..." Ash said. "Also... I know you feel pretty uncomfortable about this whole thing. If there is anything you want to do, I will take you to do it. It is the least I can do for missing you growing up."

I thought about anything I might want to do, but I came up short. "I am not sure." I said. I saw darkrai slip back to whence he came as I said this.

"Well here, let me start simple." He said. "Mew, would you mind coming with us?"

"Anywhere with you." She smiled. She then took me by surprise as she began morphing inot a human. When the light faded she had bright pink hair and eyes with a thin face and a flat figure. She wore a pink dress that went down to her ankles.

"Ok then. I know you know where pallet is, could you teleport us there mew?"

"Mhm." She agreed and teleported all three of us.

We appeared in front of a blue one story house that looked rather small. Ash went through the door and came out with a small yellow mouse looking pokemon on his shoulder. "Hi pikachu." Mom said, going over and picking up the pokemon.

(Who are you?) The pikachu said. Ash couldn't understand him, but we could.

"Don't you remember me? I am mew." She whispered as pikachu's eyes lit up.

(Hello again!) He said happily.

"Pikachu." Ash called his lifelong friend. He jumped out of my moms grip and returned to Ash's shoulder.

(Who is the other one?)

"Thats my... err our daughter." Mew said.

(Ash.. had a child?) The pikachu said bewildered.

"Mhm. And here I am." I said. "Jamie." I introduced myself. "Where did you want to take us?"

"Patience." He smiled. "This way."

"A visit... to grandma..." I said as we stood in front of a white house with a lush vegetable garden in front.

"Oh don't be so negative. Delia is a wonderful woman." My mom said with a serious tone.

Ash knocked on the front door and it was answered by a nice looking elderly last with greying hair and a warm smile. "Hi ash. Who are these pretty ladies?" By her voice I could tell she was someone who was keen on being kind.

"I Will tell you when we get inside." He whispered. We all went inside as she welcomed us in. I sat on the couch of the well furnished house. It was quite beautiful. The walls were painted white and she had expensive looking brown couches that somehow went with the wall.

When the rest of us were inside the living room she walked up to us. "Hi, I am Delia, you are?" She asked, extending her hand to me.

"Jamie." I replied as I shook her hand.

"And you?" She turned to my mom.

"Umm... Thats what I wanted to talk to you about." Ash said, putting his hand behind his neck. "Here, sit down." He said, leading my clueless grandmother to her chair. "You see, they arent normal people. They... They are my family."

"Family? So you are Ash's daughter?" she asked in disbelief. I gave a polite nod and Delia turned back to Ash with a stern face. "You had a family and didn't tell me once?"

"It was for the better." He said shamefully.

"She easily looks in her teens. So I have had a granddaughter for the better part of two decades and you haven't even seem them that I know of.." she trailed off.

"But thats not the worst part." Ash muttered out.

"What is?" I decided to answer that question myself and turned into a mew. When the light faded I saw the surprise on Delia's face and I could tell she wasn't prepared for that information.

"A mew?! My granddaughter is a mew?!" She exclaimed. I turned back to my female human form and sat down. I didn't sit long. "Come here child." She said to me. I did as commanded and she pulled my into a hug. "Now what could have been so bad that these two had to remain hidden?"

"You know those three team rocket goons that always followed me? They began to grow a deep hate and that hate was strong enough to kill."

"Poor dears." Delia said, hugging me tighter. "Here I was, thinking all of Ash's crazy stories about legendary pokemon were all made up and here I have two of them in my house. Family nonetheless."

"Anyway, I was just here to break the news. We were actually going to the Frosty Slowbro."

"Almost 20 years of leaving them in the dark and the first thing you do as a family is take them for ice cream?" Delia said rather disappointed.

I decided I would let them talk it out and I left for the kitchen. Not for food, but to think. My family had gotten two new people in the last hour and I had trouble processing it. I wasnt alone for long as I saw a flash of pink hair. "Hi, you seem upset." She said, walking over to me.

"I am just not sure what to feel about all of this." I said, motioning my arms to the living room.

"Mmh I know at you mean. It s a lot to take in at once, but your father is trying hard to be a part of your life."

"Mom, he saw me for the first time less than thirty minutes ago!" I whispered, slightly frustrated. "I don't know how hard he is trying."

"I know dear. I can't say I would be too happy to see someone that I thought deserted me my whole life too, but just give him a chance please." My mom said with a sad face..

I pulled her into a hug. "Alright. I will try." I said as we walked back into the living room. Delia and Ash were still trying to figure out the best thing to do for us.

"Why not let them choose?" Delia said.

"He tried, but I couldn't make up my mind." I said.

"Oh… That makes more sense." She laughed. "Anyway, don't let me keep you. You three have fun. I hope to see you around more often."

With that we left and went down to a slowbro shaped shack that had its arms crossed with fake frost hanging from its shoulders and head. There were a few tables set out too, so people could st down as they ate. "So, what would you like Jamie?" Ash said.

I looked over at the flavors and just chose the simplest one. "Vanilla." I said. Mom chose strawberry, Ash chose chocolate and shared it with pikachu. We all sat down at one of the tables and I began to eat my ice cream in silence. I broke the love staring contest between mom and Ash. "So Ash.. I mean dad, did you ever finish the pokemon league or did you just kinda stop?"

"One, don't call me dad if you don't want to… Hell, I don't even think I deserve the title." He said looking down. "Two, I did become a master, but I released most of my pokemon."

"Oh." I said. We finished our ice cream and we went back to Ash's house. It was rather simple and had blue walls, a couch, a bathroom, a bedroom, a kitchen, and a bed.

"I know it isn't much, but I call it home." He said, sitting on the couch.

I made my way into the kitchen, not really hungry, but curious. He didn't have much in the fridge. "Jamie?" I heard my mother call me. I made my way into Ash's room and saw a large cabinet. I gasped as my mother opened it to reveal a huge amount of movies. I even saw some of my favorites, Pacific Rim, Titanic, and most were ones I have never seen.

I then laid eyes on a movie I never watched without Rob. It was Gladiator and I remembered that I had completely left him as he was drawing me. "Oh no." I muttered to myself.

"What? You don't like it?" My mom asked.

"No, I do. Its just that I completely left Rob earlier and I didn't even tell him why." I said. "I'll be back later."

"Who is Rob?" Ash asked.

"Don't worry. He is just her childhood friend." Mom said as I grabbed Gladiator.

"May I borrow this?" I asked politely, already knowing he would say yes.

"Sure." Ash said and I teleported back to Rob's room,scaring him again.

He did the exact same as he had last time I teleported and covered up a drawing. I managed to catch a glimpse of it before he did however, and saw it was him and a woman that I didn't see clearly, sitting down on a beach with her head in his neck as they held hands. "Good god, give me a heart attack why don't you." He joked.

"Who was on the paper?" I laughed. "I saw some of that. It looked quite romantic."

"Umm... none of your business." He said with his face beginning to turn red.

"Mhm. Don't tell me then." I said sarcastically. "I guess I will just have to return this." I pulled the movie out from behind me. As he was distracted I began to pry into his mind and try to figure out who else was on the paper. I didn't have to dig too deep because of how recently he was thinking of it. I gasped as I saw the full picture in his mind. The woman in the figure was... me.

"What? Did I do something?" He questioned as he heard my gasp and saw the shock on my face. I was too busy thinking about how my best friend from childhood could have been in love with me. "Hey, you there?" He asked, snapping me out of my trance.

"Oh... yes I am fine." I said, still a little uneasy. I couldn't say that I didn't like him back. In fact it was the reason I tried to be a guy around him because I thought he would only see a friend.

"Liar. You may be a girl but you still scratch your ear whenever you lie." He laughed and I noticed I was itching my ear.

"Its nothing." I said, making sure to keep my hand down.

"If you say so." Rob said as he put the disk in a dvd player by his tv.

I moved onto his bed and was too preoccupied to watch the beginning of the movie. I noticed him staring at me. "You saw it didn't you..." he said as his face went red again.

"Mhm." I nodded, keeping out the part about me reading his mind.

"Sorry... I have felt this way for about a year now. It changes when you are a guy and makes me less attracted because I think of us as brothers but... when you are like this, I can't help but think of how easily we get along and I realize that-"

He cut off as I leaned over and laid my head on his chest. "Dont be sorry." I said. "Falling in love is something we can't control."

"Wise... very wise." He said as he let me lay down. I began trying to watch the movie but was still too distracted by the fact that my best friend loves me and I might feel the same way. He broke the silence and he sounded a little worried. "I just don't want these feelings getting in between us though. I mean, we are closer than anything, whether we are together or not. Things like that don't come often."

"Me either."

"So... how do you feel about me?" He asked nervously.

I looked up at him and smiled, causing some of his nervousness to subside from his face. "We'll see." I said as I pulled my legs up to me and moved closer. He took the hint and nervously moved his arm over my shoulders. We finally focused on the movie right as the protagonist was winning his first fight.

"So this means you will be going by Jamie a whole lot more huh?" Rob laughed.

"Like I said, we will see." I smiled.

Just then we both received the shock of our lives as Rob's mom barges in and gasped. "Who is this?" She asked "and why does she look so much like James?"

"Umm.." He fumbled over his words.

"I am James' twin sister." I said, covering his hide.

"I didn't know he had a twin." She said. "Does he know you two are laying like that?"

"Mhm. James doesn't really care who I am with as long as he isn't a jerk."

"What a good brother." She smiled as she closed the door, obviously forgetting what she wanted.

"That was close." He said, letting a breath of relief out.

"What are you celebrating for? I am the one that saved you." I laughed.

"Whatever." He laughed as well.

The movie eventually came to a close and I took it out of the dvd player. "I gotta go bring this back to my dad." I said.

"Wait... I thought your dad left you?" He said, standing up.

"He did. Arceus helped me find him after I took a trip through time. Want to meet him?"

"Isn't he Ash Ketchum? The only guy said to become a pokemon master?" I nodded and he jumped to my side. "Of course. If you are going to be a trainer pokemon like you said earlier, we might need all the tips we can get."

"I told you, I am not sure." I laughed and grabbed his hand as we teleported to Ash's house.

We appeared in his kitchen because I hadn't had a chance to memorize the house yet. I walked around dragging Rob by the hand as I tried to find Ash's room. I heard the sounds of an action movie from a door in the hallway and went up to it. I knocked on the door first and entered when I was given permission, unaware of the fact that I was still holding Rob's hand.

"Hi Rob." My mom said sweetly as she was in her mew form and laying with Ash on his bed. "Oh, how sweet." She smiled as she noticed we were still holding hands. I let go of it and felt my face heat up as I blushed, causing her to laugh. "You are fine dear." She l laughed as she was my blush. I went to lay down with my mom as we got out of the way and Rob sat on the bed next to me.

"Are you really about to be that nervous?" I asked with a laugh as I pulled him closer.

"But your dad is. Right there." He whispered.

"Mhm... and?" I whispered back. He eventually gave up trying to argue and scooted closer. "What is this movie called?" I asked as another car blew up from a raging salamence.

"It is... Dragon Rage." Mom said, reading off of the case. "Long story short a dragon attacks some town in Kanto."

"Mmh." I began thinking about Rob and I and I wanted to talk to him about it but I didn't want mom or Ash to hear. 'Rob?' I asked him telepathically.

This had made him sit up and look around. "Who said that?" He said, getting a confused stare from everyone but me.

"Me. Now just think." I laughed. 'Think and I will hear you.'

'Hello?' I heard him think among other questions running through his mind.

'Yes it is me, Jamie. You know, the one that likes you?' I gave a mental laugh. I let out a real one as he began blushing at the fact that I said I liked him.

'So you do like me.' He thought triumphantly. 'Wait... if you can talk to me with my mind...'

'Yes I can read it too.' I delved deeper into his mind to prove it. I came across an odd strand of thoughts about how my breasts were lopsided and looked down. From my standpoint they looked completely level. "They are not!" I said, smacking him.

"They kinda are." He laughed a minute later after catching what I meant.

"Well here, let me fix it." I said, turning into my male form and pushing him away.

"Aww, dont be like that." He smiled.

"Be like what? You said yourself you were more comfortable when I am a guy." I twisted his words around. I didn't get to tease him any more as three slips of yellow paper presented themselves to us. "Joy... mother wants to see us." I said, slipping open the paper.

"Dear James/Jamie

There is an emergency meeting at 7:30. Whether you choose to bring your new boyfriend is up to you because this might soon encompass all human kind. Your father will also be attending because of his expertise on dealing with criminal affairs.

Arceus"

"This can't be good." Mom said realizing Ash had been summoned as well. "What time is it?"

Ash looked down on his watch. "7:20."

"Sorry, but we need it by the hall's standard. James?"

I looked at my watch and gasped. "7:29. She wasn't kidding when she said emergency. Come on." I said, grabbing Rob's arm and teleporting. I automatically appeared in my seat for The Hall meetings and noticed darkrai already to my left. I gave him a slight nod and he returned the gesture.

"What's the word?" He asked.

"Not sure, all I got was a letter saying to meet here." I looked to my right as Ash and mom teleported beside me. "Shit..." I said as I saw Giratina float from The Hall entrance. "Something serious is happening. Mother NEVER calls Giratina to a meeting."

We didn't wait long as all of the legendaries teleported directly to their seat in the coliseum shaped meeting room. Arceus herself soon walked out of her room with her scrying desk floating beside her. She walked to the center and set the table down. "I know this is quite extreme to summon you all here within a minute, but there is a serious problem down on earth. There has been a sudden uprising of criminal activity in the sinnoh region under the name of 'Team Rage'. They are a collection of scattered criminals from other organizations that were eliminated by Ash Ketchum and seem to be getting stronger daily. We do not know at this moment what their motives are. We have said human here if you would look by Mew. I summoned you all here to use our combined intelligence to figure out a rather peaceful method of disbanding this organization, but if not, Ash will be tasked with the mission to eliminate them forcefully. You all may begin thinking."

I began thinking hard as tasked and it wasn't very effective necaise of the mixed events of today. Uxie, being the intelligence pokemon, was the first to speak up. "What if we get a person on the inside to find their motives and deem whether the need to be eliminated. After all, George Washington and his people were considered criminals at first."

"Good. We only have two pokemon here able to shapeshift. Mew, and James."

Before even thinking about it my mind acted and I stood up. "I will be up to it." I said. After it happened I realized there was no way out of it and I berated myself.

"What are you doing?!" Rob whispered to me. "If I lose you, I lose everything! A brother, a friend... and a first girlfriend." He mumbled at the last part.

"I don't know. I just.. did it." I whispered back. "And do you really mean that? I though some... Franky was your first girlfriend."

"She was a cover up so you would stop turning into a girl so I wouldn't fall harder for you!" Him saying this had affected me deeply, so I turned back into a girl and felt my heart flutter.

"Jamie." Arceus said after I finished transforming. "Are you sure you want to do this?"

"No..." I said uneasily. "But I will do it anyway."

"Good. Meet me in The Hall tomorrow and we shall discuss the plan in full. You are all dismissed." She said as she returned to her room. All the legendaries had dispersed quickly.

"Come on. We need to talk." I said as I dragged Rob into my room.

"Did I say something?" He questioned.

"Yes." I said as I opened my door and closed it with a thud. I turned to him and put on a serious face. "Did you really mean what you said?" I asked. "Am I basically everything to you?"

"Yes. You were always there for me. From our first fight fight in middle school, to our last movie session. You are my brother. The person I like more than any other girl. Whatever gender you are, you mean a hell of a lot to me."

I honestly felt like doing a backflip as he said this. Too clueless to do anything else, I walked up and kissed him. "Chalk that up as your first kiss to." I smiled. "I am coming back. I promise."


Ok, so we are finally into the main plot X). Ash also found his family... err the other way around i mean and Rob and Jamie/James hooked up. What will come next for Jamie as a spy for the gods? Who is the leader(s) of team Rage? Read on and find out.