Jessie spun around, scowling. "You two?" she hissed, looking at the red-haired girl and her companion.

"Yup yup yup! It's us!" Sheshe smiled.

"Truly!"

(Mimi was last seen over Johto with a bump on the back of her head from Jessie's mallet.)

"ANYWAY..." Sheshe began, then spotted James and grinned. She grabbed his collar. "Excuse us for a moment," she bowed, then dragged James off, floating in mid-air, slamming him against a tree in a nearby forest. "YOU HAD THE RAINBOW PEARL MERMAID PRINCESS WITH YOU ALL ALONG AND YOU DIDN'T CAPTURE HER??" Sheshe bellowed, making some Spearows take off in fright. "WHAT. THE. HELL??"

"JESSIE'S Kaya?" James shrieked in horror. "NO!!! I DON'T WANT TO HURT HER!! LET ME GO, BITCH!!" he struggled to get free, then stopped when he realized Sheshe could just drop him and he'd fall about 50 feet.

"Too bad for you, Lover Boy!" Sheshe snarled, then handed him a flute made out of ebony. (It was a sort of tree... had black bark... now wiped from the earth... or something like that...) "This is yours to play. Introduce our songs then sing along, causing all havoc needed!! MUAHAHAHAHA-" Sheshe coughed. "...Haha..." she flew back to the balloon, and dropped James. "Good-byebye!" she waved, and flew off.

Janet had a strange grin on her pale face. Her eyes flashed red for a moment before the three started the motto.

"Prepare for trouble!"

"Good turned to rubble!"

"Make it double!"

"To protect the world from devistation,"

"Of the horrors of light's creation!"

"To unite all peoples whithin our nation!"

"To denounce the evils of truth and love!"

"Prepare for the havoc created by the..."

"Reach we extend to the stars above!"

"Jessie!"

"Janet!"

"James!"

"Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light!"

"We devote to the darkness with all of our might!"

"Surrender now or prepare to fight!"

"Me-owth! Dat's right!"

Misty looked a bit confused. "Uhhhhh... who's she?" she asked, pointing to Janet.

"She's Janet. Our newest addition to the team!" Jessie smiled, evilly of course. "Give us Pikachu!"

"Riiiiiggghht, Jessie. We're just gonna give you Pikachu," Ash said sarcastically. "THUNDERSHOCK, NOW!!"

"DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT!!!" Jessie shrieked, hitting her head against a rock. (Wow. She's tough...)

"It ain't over yet, Jess!" Meowth shouted. "Look!"

Jessie glanced up to where Meowth was pointing, then continued. Then looked up again. There was Janet, and she was... ABSORBING the thundershock! "Woah..." Jessie murmured, something like admiration in her voice. "How is she doing that...?"

Janet cackled in a way that made a shiver shoot up even Jessie's spine. "Take that!" she hollered, tossing the lightning back at the twerps.

Misty cried out and pushed Ash out of the way.

Ash landed on the ground and started sucking on his thumb and crying.

Brock stared at Janet.

Misty hit him with a tree branch.

Pikachu sweatdropped.

Brock rubbed his sore noggin and stared at Janet again.

Janet blasted him.

...

James was still staring wide-eyed at Janet. "WHAT.... THE HELL... WAS THAT?" he shouted.

Janet shrugged.

"Hm? What's wrong Jessie? Why are you... are you blushing??"

"Uhhhhh..." Jessie looked down, blushing harder.

"She's blushin' because she loves ya, Jimm- Oops..." Meowth covered his mouth and looked at an embarressed Jessie.

"YOU STUPID ALLEY CAT!! I'M GONNA KILL YOU!!!" Jessie screamed, getting out her mallet and attempting to beat the cat to a pulp.

"WAIT WAIT JIMMY LOVES YOU TOO JESS I SWEAR HE TOLD ME!!" Meowth shouted, putting up his hands.

"LEAVE SOME OF THE KILLING FOR ME, JESSIE!!!" shouted an angered James.

As the mallet came inches from Meowth's cowering body, Jessie and James finally took in what he said. "Hold on... Jessie, you love me?" James whispered.

"Uhhmmm..." Jessie's brain registered the fact that her dream guy loved her as well. "Yeah. I do... always have. You're such a nice guy and- mmmmm!" she was cut off as James kind of tackled her and kissed her tenderly on her lipstick-coated lips.

Meowth got up and brushed himself off, turning to Janet and sticking his finger in his mouth as if to throw up. Janet snickered and Jessie took one of her arms off the back of James' neck and bopped him one on the head.

"Quite a nice way to treat a guardian!!!" Meowth spat.

James and Jessie opened their eyes at the same time and looked at Meowth. Meowth was still boasting about the time he saved Jessie's life, Jessie was running the side of her finger across her neck as if to say "Stop it now!" and James was just staring at the feline, bewildered. No, he couldn't possibly be Kaya's guardian... could he? James asked himself, looking very worried indeed.

...

Kaya was now swimming in the ocean, celebrating her victory over the Dark Lovers. Singing on the Pitchi Pitchi Stage (a little glowing ball that gives them their singing power... or something along those lines.) with her two friends, Luchia and Hanon, she smiled as she sang the words. She finished, and soon was cut off.

"Hm. Well, that hurt like hell," Ankoku came down and stopped in the middle of the water with Sheshe and a newly healed Mimi by his sides. "Let us share a song with you!

"Serenade in ebony!

"Light's an illusion, you'll see!

"Praise out deadly smiles so cold and icy!

"Shut those eyelids and sleep eternally!

"Let's celebrate the time all the light,

"Will die as it slowly heads this way!

"Even though you may resent the fact,

"Live with it, the dark is to stay!

"Ah, my friends!

"I see you have a distant light of hope.

"But it's just a mask,

"For the despair oozing out from your soul!"

Kaya and the other two covered their aching ears in agonizing pain. Who was this Ankoku? Why did he sing lowly songs like this and not his own song? And why is it that he looked so much like her friend? Was James Ankoku?

(James remembers nothing of his human self when in the sea being Ankoku.)

Ankoku smiled in a twisted manner, his red eyes drinking in the sight of the suffering mermaid without any emotion at all. "Hurts, doesn't it Kayana? I'll make it stop if you give me the pearl."

"NEVER!!" Kayana shrieked, clutching her aching ears. "I'LL NEVER FALL TO YOU!!"

Ankoku smirked. "Whatever. Serenade in Ebony!"

"Aqua Pearl Voice!"

"Pink Pearl Voice!"

"DAMMIT!!" Ankoku grimaced.

"As the winds head towards the distant sea,

"I hear a softly-sung melody.

"Holding me in a lovely trance,

"A calming song to make us dance.

"The love of a mother's symphony!

"Rising inside of me!

"Come sing out loud!

"Come out here, come on now,

"FIGHT UP!!"

"We are proud!"

Now it was Ankoku's turn to clutch his ears. His head throbbed along with Sheshe and Mimi's and he immediatley teleported away.

Hippo, who was now looking at his Pearl Radar oddly grabbed Luchia's skirt (it's part of the Pink Pearl Pitchi outfit.) and tugged it. "Luchia!" he murmured. "Look!"

On the radar was a bright blue star. Then, Luchia saw the flaming red star of Ankoku almost completely overlapping it. "What. The. Hell?" she muttered, showing Kayana and Hanon.

Kayana shrugged. "Maybe an all-out battle...?"

"But he was just here..."

"True..." Kayana repeated her previous "I don't know" shoulder gesture (I don't know what else to call it...) and swam away.