I do not own Pokemon or any related characters. I do however, own Christy, Rick, and now Lucas.

maripinkkirby- Thanks, glad you enjoyed last chapter.

Karuma Kinsei- Yeah, Giovanni's best do have better Pokemon, I've just not decided to have them use them yet. Rick got assigned a Piplup in an earlier chapter to try and equal Dawn's Piplup. Yes, he has other Pokemon. Thanks for your review. It made me think about me only having Rick use it (and when Christy get's back, we have yet to see her Pokemon). Sorry for not including this earlier.

HorseMagic17- xD; Giovanni didn't even want Ash in the first place this time around though, I'm planning on Delia calling for help. (Not just Officer Jenny either.)

Team Rocket Tech Lab-

As the group made their way through all of the levels and buildings of the floors, everyone seemed to be rushed with an alert. Hunter J never showed up and currently Giovanni was scanning what went wrong with the computers. Even Christy had managed to pull herself out of her 'vacation' as she searched through thousands of computer files within minutes. Everyone read over a lot of details, still, no one was able to find any causes.

Ash (and Pikachu, still in the cage), were stuck next to Rick until Giovanni barked orders for everyone to simply put a code lock on the room. The boy was wondering what had caused Team Rocket to go into such a rather strange mode or way. Everyone had panick stricken faces as they knew the boss would snap any minute. "Jeez, I wonder what really did happen," Ask asked himself as he looked up at the computer screen in the chair he was sitting in.

He didn't even get the slightest idea on how to read the computer files. Every bit of text that came out he barely got even a second to make out one word. Even Pikachu, who was out of the boy's reach from trying to get the cage open, was a bit puzzled by this turn around. It also meant though, that someone had caused this. Ash smirked when he figured it out. Were the police trying to get into the files or did Team Rocket manage to get hacked?

Professor Oak's Lab-

Everyone stood near the computer screen as the professor managed to sneak his way into Giovanni's computer. Though, it wasn't professor that had caused the uproar that was taking place back at Team Rocket HQ. "Man, these computer files are so quick, there is no way we could view them all and catch what has happened," Oak stated. Officer Jenny stared and turned towards Brock and Dawn. "Do know anyone who might else be affiliated into doing this? Whoever is messing up these computer files are delaying any form we may get at tracking where Ash is." Both of them nodded their heads with no such luck. Who actually might have been doing this?

Dawn thought for a minute and asked, "What about Hunter J?" "I doubt it. She is probably having the same problem trying to keep in touch with Team Rocket that there might be someone working from the outside," Brock replied. "We need to help them, actually," Delia stated in a sad tone. Everyone stared at her, even the professor who took his eyes off the computer screen for a minute. "Giovanni is going to be wanting who managed to cause his systems to get down," she stated again. "I get it. Giovanni will want to find and probably destory the source of all the problems, which means it would be our best time to check for Ash," Brock stated, as they all looked back at the computer screen as the professor typed in several motions for the computer to alert when they found the source of the problem.

Hunter J's Place-

"What?! All the communications leading to Team Rocket are failing?" The hunter asked her workers as well, as nothing went through. "Keep trying. It can't be that kid's friends, then who is it?"

Team Rocket Tech Lab-

Ash continued watching the screen as no one even seemed to notice the boy. He looked over at one worker's computer screen and noticed he was scanning all security clips. Ash at first only saw a familiar scene of workers running around, doing their jobs. He was going to turn his attention towards the rather huge screen in front of him, until something caught his eye. It looked like what seemed to stand out in almost a frame of every clip. It was in the corner.

He stared more closely and realized what had happened. Someone was in the building and they appeared in almost each clip. A fellow who didn't even seem to look like he fit in with Team Rocket at all nor even were an affiliate of the company. He couldn't make out much more than that, except that the worker hadn't even noticed this yet. Ash got up from his seat, drawing attention towards some workers. Giovanni noticed but continued to work until he saw Ash approach the worker. The worker once never did look at the boy as he Ash thought back to the fiugre that had been on the video clips.

After several more seconds, the image clicked in Ash's mind again as he finally put the face to the person from the clips onto the worker. "What?!" Ash yelled, completely shocked. Everyone stopped what they were doing as they looked towards the two people. Giovanni stared for a second and asked, "What is it?" Pikachu, turned and watched from inside. No one made a move to grab the boy. Even Rick, didn't make a move.

The worker smirked and looked at Ash. Giovanni's face almost became a complete white. "You!" The boss shouted from across the room. The worker became into more of a face view and everyone in the room (except Ash and Pikachu) looked around. The figure was actually a male. His appearence almost made Ash want to retreat towards Rick. He man had a scar below his right eye and his hair was brown. He wore black entirely (without the 'R' planted on his shirt) and the color of his eyes were gray. "Giovanni, it has been a while," the man smirked, staring at the boss.

"Lucas, it has been a while," Giovanni replied, his normal smirk off his face and his attitude less standing out. Ash stared to back up away from this Lucas guy before he smirked towards the boy, "It has been five years since I last saw you and you managed to pick up a son?" Ash stopped for a second as Giovanni yelled, "Get away from there, Ash!" The boy's was completely taken back by this, only as Lucas slowly walked towards Ash.

Rick, without being told, ran down towards the two and grabbed Ash, scooting him behind several of the Team Rocket members. Ash couldn't figure out why, until the silence paid off as he noticed what seemed to be a clock in Lucas' hand. "GET DOWN!" Rick shouted, as the man instantly realized what was in Lucas' hand. Everyone quickly ducked, as an explosion ran off near from all of the computers in the lab.

Smoke sent out for the fire alarms and Ash felt someone cutting the rope off his hands. As more explosions were blasting off by seconds, Christy had cut the ropes on Ash's hands as she had the cage that had Pikachu in it. Ash covered his ears as Christy struggled againist the cage and forced it open. She looked towards Ash as Giovanni had made his way towards the boy. Loud noises and alarms had sounded. People were screaming as Ash could make out the sound of Lucas' voice, though it was drowned out by the noise. When Christy managed to get the door open, Pikachu jumped onto Ash.

Ash quickly hugged his Pokemon, as several people rushed around Giovanni. The boss tossed towards Ash his Turtwig Pokeball, as one last explosion went off. Rubble flew everywhere as Ash felt huge pieces smashing on his back, as he protected Pikachu from the majority of it. One rather large piece of pole that was coming from the roof was starting to fall when Christy noticed that Ash was right below it. She ran foward and shoved the boy out of the way as the pole landed on her back.

Rick screamed out in anger as he ran towards Christy. Meanwhile, Giovanni focused his attention towards all of the workers that were laying on the ground, half of them lifeless from the explosions. Lucas had took cover behind a nearby wall to another exit, as he came into the view of Giovanni. The man came out laughing and when Ash was registering that Christy had just done saved his life, Giovanni looked over to Rick who was lifting the pole off of the unconscious Christy. The boss instantly became angered and yelled towards Lucas, "They didn't need this!"

Ash watched, while holding Pikachu. This Lucas guy had set up for to try and kill Giovanni and even though his planned may have failed, there were people around the room dead. The boy's eyes watered at the slaughter of them, even if they did work for Giovanni. They didn't need this to happen towards them. Christy was slipping between, as Rick held her crying. Lucas smirked at his 'job well done.' "This is what you get, Giovanni! Being power hungry, making those copies of Pokemon! You caused the ruin of my town, my life, and my family," he continued on.

The boy related to where he wanted revenge on Giovanni about his power trip deals, but the killing of inncoent people? "Then, I find you have a kid. I understood why Delia left you for that kid," Lucas brought up Ash's mother and the boy turned angrily. Was his mother actually this well known among enemies? Giovanni noticed Ash was listening in and stated, "As I recall, I put an end to your nuclear power trip. You built the machine responsible for the death of your family."

Lucas' face became angered but he smirked towards the two, "Delia just didn't leave in fear of that over there. She understood what happened when the nuclear project began. She knew you would be involved and fled off!" Giovanni's face became rather shocked and Ash clinched his hand in anger. Pikachu looked at his trainer before Ash yelled, "WHO CARES?!" Both of the men stared at the boy. "This happened years ago! You both lost people over your own stupid mistakes! What does my mother have to do with you?" Ash demanded from Lucas.

Lucas eyed the boy and replied, "Your parents were friends with us at the time. We made it big, where your mother realized that Giovanni there was involved with illegal activities, she left in fear of of losing you. I happened to hit big, making a nuclear project that would allow the recreation of legendary Pokemon. Your father ended it, as he realized it would cause several deep cuts in his budget. I built a machine to come and destory his labs, but it turned out it exploded near my house. Where only one of my daughters survived."

"Then, your machine caused it," Ash replied back, a bit taken back by the story. He wasn't sticking up for his father though, since Giovanni did end the project. "This isn't over," Lucas replied back, as Giovanni made the order for Rick to get Christy and Ash out of there.

Professor Oak's Lab-

"That can't be! The computer files are gone!" Oak sounded throughout the lab. Everyone watched as a computer news station popped up on screen and everyone watched as a reporter appeared, "There have been confirmed explosions coming from inside this building, owned by the one of the world's powers, Giovanni." Everyone became silent and watched as the news as Delia became silent she thought back to something from the past. "Lucas..." she stated, as only Professor Oak knew who she was talking about.

"He set off those bombs!" Delia cried into her hands. Brock and Dawn looked towards Professor Oak as he explained the story.