Finally Chapter 4 is up! I am sorry for the delay, but I just finished with my exams.

Thanks for all the comments and corrections for Brock's name!

To Ry the King of Time, thanks for the suggestion for the Red Orb, I will see if I can put it into the story in the future.

Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon


Chapter 4: Hearts Burst into Fire

Umbreon jumped for the third time, but he was still not tall enough the reach the door bell. Before he could have another try, his brother Espeon hopped on his head and nudged the bell with his nose. He back flipped down and landed gracefully, causing a triumphant grin to his brother.

"What's wrong guys?" Rui asked the two Eveelutions as she opened the door.

The two Pokemon yanked her skirt and made her follow them. Behind her, Ash, Brock, and Misty decided to come along. The two Eveelutions led their friends into the cave, where it was now filled with smoke. They could barely see the outline of Wes' body.

"Wes!" Rui yelled. "What happened?"

"There seemed to be an intrusion. Some fucking defilers threw a smoke grenade into the Celebi's Forest!" Wes swore.

The sandy haired teen then whistled to call for his two Pokemon. He squat down to their eye level and nodded to them. The two Pokemon nodded back at their trainer and galloped into the heart of the smoke. Within a minute, the two of them walked out, with Umbreon carrying a silver canister that seems to be spraying smoke out. After a while, the smoke died out. Wes hold up the can to examine it.

"Does the letter R ring anyone's bell?" he asked while outlining the letter on the can with his finger.

"Oh my God." Ash, Brock and Misty all said simultaneously. "Team Rocket."

"Isn't that another organization in Kanto?" "Rui asked. "What do they want with Celebi's Relic."

As the group was hypothesizing the reason for the Rocket's appearance in Orre, Wes surreptitiously walked out of the forest and the cave, moving towards Eagun's home. No, they couldn't have done it. He thought to himself. They shouldn't be smart enough to think up of a...

Detour.

Wes gazed at the cottage with its door bashed open. He ran into the house and found the entire place ransacked. A couple second later, Rui, Ash's gang and their Pokemon showed up behind him, also surprised at the mess.

"Shit." Ash swore. "What could those bastards want here in Orre?"

"Easy." Wes answered. He walked up to his room, where the situation was worse than downstairs. Bedsheets were torn, his bed was turned upside down, wardrobe doors were ripped open. Wes glanced around and leaned against the wall with his palm on his head.

"The Snag machine." He explained. "I left it here after I snagged Pikachu. Those bastards smoked the relic to distract us, then broke into this place to steal the machine."

"They weren't that smart for this." Misty commented.

"Well they must have planned it with some higher ups before hand." Brock said.

"Either way, they were sneaky, but not my level." Wes said, than took out his PDA. He pressed a couple buttons, which revealed a map of Orre on the screen with a red dot and a blue dot on two separate location on the screen.

"Snagem and Cipher wanted to take my snag machine countless amount of times, that's why Nett and I installed a tracking device in the machine which I can locate it through my PDA." Wes explained. "The blue dot shows our current location, while the red dot is where my Snag machine is...which is in Pyrite Town."

"Well that ain't too hard." Rui said. "Let's hit it."


"You got it?" the man in black suit from the screen asked.

"Yes sir! We have the snag machine!" Jessie reported excitedly to the web cam attached to the laptop.

"Good. Now all we need to do is use the snag machine along with that stolen Master Ball I gave you. Pikachu will be vulnerable against us. Capiche?"

"Capiche!" Jessie, James and Meowth saluted to the web cam. The screen than went blank.

"Well this is way too easy" James commented. "We just need to sneak back to Agate and snag that Pikachu, and then we will be immediately moved up to the top! They will not be expecting us."

"Don't be too sure about it James." said Meowth. "Every time when we thought we were so close to successfully capturing that mouse, that brat Ash will just show up and ruin the plan. Besides, the punk Wes must be looking for this machine madly, and he must have gotten a map of this Orre imprinted onto his brain while we were foreigners to this land."

"Shut up Meowth, don't be such a party pooper!" Jessie yelled.

"Well I guess that cat is right ma'am." said a voice behind the trio. "Now hand the machine over before your asses get ripped apart by Umbreon."

The Rockets immediately spun around, glaring at Wes with his two loyal Pokemon by his side. Behind them was Ash, Brock, Misty, and Rui. Pikachu was behind them, who still chose to follow Ash around.

"Fufu... do you have any ideas of who we are, punk?" Jessie taunted. The three Rockets then made a pose.

"Emm... two hobos with a freakish Pokemon that talks?" Wes smirked. His friends and Pokemon laughed behind him.

"Fool!" Jessie howled. "you better..."

"Prepare for trouble!" James shouted proudly

"Make it double!" Jessie continued.

"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 from the stars above. Jessie. James. Team rocket blast off at the speed of light. Surrender now or prepare to fight." The Team memorized their motto.

Wes, Umbreon and Espeon couldn't help themselves from dropping onto the ground, laughing with tears. Even Rui almost fell over. Ash, Brock and Misty all slapped their foreheads with the palms, muttering "We don't know those fools."

"Damn it guys!" Wes managed to say weakly through his non stoppable laugh. "All the time I thought that no one could ever replace that Miror B! I gotta introduce that afro freak to these Rockets next time!"

"Kid, you better take us seriously, or you will taste our wraith!" James shouted angrily and threw out his Pokeball. Immediately his Weezing popped out. Jessie, also pumped with angry and humiliation, summoned her Arbok to the field.

Two poison type, couldn't be hard, Wes thought.

"Wait Wes,"Ash tried to hold the Savior back. "My team faced these fools countless times. We can make this quick, right Pikachu?"

The yellow mouse was confident but also confused; Ash was no longer his trainer, yet he felt that he still had a strong bond with his ex trainer. He looked at Wes, who gave him a nod.

"Pika!" Pikachu than charged to his rival. However, the Rockets seemed to have some tricks up their sleeves. With a single command, James ordered his Weezing to release smog to pollute the area. With the dense pollutions, Pikachu could not see where their enemies are coming from. Espeon and Umbreon attempted to assist Pikachu, but Ash was determined not to let anyone interfere with Kanto business.

Helplessly, Pikcahu ran in and out of the area, occasionally shooting shots of thundershock into the smoke, but nothing seemed to be hit. When finally tried to ease up his defense to focus his power for a powerful thunder attack, Pikachu was wrapped around by a huge tail. No matter how much electricity he released, the cobra still wouldn't let go of his prey.

"Now James!" Jessie commanded. The trainers were too busy watching the battle that they had forgotten the Rockets. Wes looked in fear. James had put on his Snag Machine, but worse, charging a purple Pokeball with an M on it. He drew back his left arm and swung the ball towards the trapped Pickachu. The Masterball snagged the poor Pokemon and dropped onto the ground, shook lightly a couple of times and a red light was lit, indicating a successful snag.

"Get the ball Arbok!" Jessie screamed.

"Not so fast!" Wes bit his lips with fear. "Umbreon, Espeon!"

The two Eons leaped forward, but were halted by the two poisen Pokemon. Arbok used iron tail to whip the Espeon aside, while Weezing tackled Umbreon, who wasn't aware of the danger. Ash jumped forward, but were too slow for James, who had a head start and grabbed the ball.

"Shit! Espeon, stop fooling around; give them an one-hit KO!" Wes commanded. Espeon's purple eyes shined; the ground vibrated as he used a Psychic attack on the two poison types. Having a type disadvantage, the Rocket Pokemon were down immediately. However, their trainers simply recalled their Pokemon and threw another smoke grenade out. Wes and Rui tried to chase after them, but lost them soon.

Ash fell on his knees for the second time today. The Rockets had finally captured Pickachu. He thought. Why do I failed to protect the best friend again?

Wes walked by the Champion and gave him a hand. "Stand up Ketchum. Rather than wasting your time crying you should be chasing after those bastards. They still have my tracking device on them." Wes said kindly.

Ash looked up at the Savior. Eyes burst into fire, he nodded and wiped his tears. He grabbed Wes' hand to pull himself up and the group were off to Kanto, tailing the kidnappers.