Months had passed since the end of the Omega Games. Cerulean City and Professor Oak's lab had been rebuilt, all the damage that Omegamoah had done had been rebuilt, any Rockets that hadn't been picked up by the G-Men had been forced to go underground, Ash Ketchum was the biggest hero in Kanto, and Giovanni didn't like it… not one bit. After Ash defeated him at his own base he had been taken into custody by the Pokémon G-Men. Giovanni's cell was roomier than most, and it had all the comforts of home, but a very nice prison cell was still a prison cell, and Giovanni couldn't get his revenge from inside it; so tonight he had bribed all the guards to simply look the other way for one hour after lights out, promising that none of the prisoners would be let loose and no one would be hurt. Giovanni sat there waiting patiently for about fifteen minutes until he heard someone come in. He turned around and saw a man dressed head to toe in dark colored body armor and a strange mask.

"Are you him?"

The man reached into his armor and pulled out a Poké Ball. The Pokémon that came out of it was a fierce looking Black Charizard.

"Does he answer your question? Anyone who could bribe all the guards in this shit hole certainly wouldn't need a man of my talents to waste his time breaking you out of it, so tell me… what do you want?"

Giovanni turned on the TV.

"We're coming to you live from the opening of New Cerulean, where Ash Ketchum has just walked off stage. Thanks to him the threat of Omegamoah is over and the Floral Lagoon city has risen from the ashes as an even better city than it was before!"

Giovanni turned the TV off.

"I was one of the most feared men in the world, but that little brat beat me in a single Pokémon battle and now I'm a laughing stock imprisoned in this urine soaked hell hole."

"You haven't answered my question. What do you want?"

He never used Giovanni's name, like it didn't even matter, but Giovanni was willing to overlook it for now.

"What do I want? What do I want? I'll tell you what I want! I want that kid's head on a pike! I want to cut him into hundreds of little pieces and mail him to every country in the world! I want to eat his heart and break my foot off in his ass! I want to barbeque his sorry carcass and shoot his ashes into the sun! But that would be stupid… because killing him would only make him a fucking martyr. Besides, I can't do this from inside this damn jail cell. That's where you come in… I don't want you to kill him… I want you to ruin this kid; I want you to break him. I want nothing less than the complete, total, and utter ruination of Ash Ketchum. I want the whole world to see him for the worthless sack of shit that he really is! And while you're at it, bring me my damn Pokémon back. Can you do that?"

For a long moment he just stared there looking like his mind was a thousand miles away.

"Well?"

"Yes, I can do that… but it's going to cost you."

Giovanni handed him a suitcase from inside his cell.

"Consider this a down payment. You get the second half when you bring me back Omegamoah and have the whole world laughing at Ash Ketchum."

He opened the suitcase and looked at what was inside. He took a few minutes to make sure the money was real and wasn't traceable.

"Consider it done…"

After leaving Giovanni he made his way back to his secret base. For months he had just been sitting there bored waiting for another job, but he never expected his next assignment would be one as interesting as this. The others would be very pleased. When he finally came to the secret door he unlocked the keypad and typed in the secret six digit code. After the retina scan the door finally opened. As he made his way through the hall he could hear the kids goofing off.

"And they each expect to become my successor with that attitude."

When he entered the room they all fell silent.

"It's the boss…"

"Hello sir. What news do you bring?"

"Giovanni has hired me to bring Ash Ketchum down hard… I could just do the job myself… but why should I have all the fun?"