Kay, people, here's another chapter. As I've said before, I don't like to give everything away at once. Although, part of one of the questions I had was and will be answered in this chapter. Some things will stay a mystery for a while, but I'll cover them. One quick note, I never knew Reggie and Maylene had a shipping of their own. I like it! :D

Disclaimer: I'm as close to owning pokemon as Pikachu is to getting over his ketchup obsession. In other words, never!

In and Out of Trouble

A man with short, purple hair and a woman with long, red hair, green earrings, and a lot of makeup dressed in black and a Meowth were both in a black balloon with a D.

Ash's eyes narrowed at the symbol that was part of what ruined his life.

Meowth noticed Ash and Paul down below. "Well, if it isn't the brats who destroyed Team Rocket!"

Reggie looked at Paul in surprise. "You destroyed it," he whispered.

Both ignored him. Ash was still looking at the symbol.

"What do you want," Paul spat.

"Well, Mr. Dark," the woman, Jessie, said, "We are fulfilling our mission. It's only a bonus to get to take revenge on what you two did."

The man, James, actually had the common sense to count the people, "The girl isn't there," he pointed out.

His partners in crime, yes they actually got better, looked down and noticed the same thing.

"Did da wittle bird and shadow break up with their girlfriend," Meowth taunted. This caused Ash to snap out of it, and both glare.

"Never mind that now," Jessie said, smacking Meowth on the back of the head, "Let's go!"


Meanwhile, Maylene and Key were walking back to the house with each other, talking while Mew played with her hair. She was able to come out, considering they left town and the only people around would be at Reggie's. Maylene finally noticed the pink feline pokemon.

She jumped. "I-Is that a Mew!"

Key looked up at the pink pokemon who looked down, staring at her face. "Yep," she said cheerily.

"How'd you get a legendary," she asked, "They're so rare, I don't think anybody has one."

Key shook her head, "That's where you're wrong, all three of us have one or two. The only other person who actually captured them, because I've listened to Rave tell stories of meeting different people who've befriended them, would be Takuto. It's so cheap, I mean, I know we have some, but there's a reason we can, yet he had multiple legendaries!"

Maylene tilted her head in confusion. "Reasons? What reasons?"

Key closed her eyes, trying to sense anybody in earshot or within the area to see Mew. She came up with nobody. She then turned to Maylene while they stopped. "Rave is Lugia's chosen one. Usually there is only one, but something happened. I don't know what, but almost there are six chosen, at least, ones that they all agree on. It's mainly Rave. Yet, though I don't know of any others, Dark and I are too; to Rayquaza and Jirachi, respectively."

Key then sat down, taking out scrap paper and a pen. She then stood up a minute later and showed her the drawing. It showed a star-like symbol. Arceus was in a middle circle and had branches out to each legendary. From there, there were six branches out to empty bubbles; three of them had Ash, Paul, and Key in them. The branches to them were bolded from them to their legend and there was a bolded circle connecting all the legendaries.

Key explained. "Because there has to be multiple ones, Arceus can't choose. He has the others choose who they think is worthy. Originally, Rave was the only one and was both Arceus's and Lugia's; but that changed. The empty bubbles from the legends are because I don't know or because the legend hadn't chosen yet. The bolded lines and circle are where everyone agrees on the chosen. I've heard of three others being the same as us, but don't know." (I will not explain in this story, but I am planning a sequel or two that will talk about it more. The idea came at last second, but I think it kind of fits and I'll try and make it work.)

Maylene nodded, understanding a bit. The three continued their walk.

"So, how'd you get Mew," Maylene asked.

This time, Mew replied, summarizing, "Keke-san met me when Mewtwo decided to find Ash. Mewtwo had heard of him going missing and left the clone Meowth to watch the other ones. When we found him, Paul and Keke were with him, sitting in the dark, only lighted by their campfire. Mewtwo had become Ash's, yet teleporting every once in a while to visit the clones. I wanted to become Keke's, but insisted on her battling me first, same goes for Mewtwo."

Maylene nodded, and then looked ahead, gasping. She pointed to the house, exclaiming, "Reggie and the others!"

Key looked too to see the balloon. She looked to the side of the path towards the forest. "Come on, this way. We can get a good look at whoever's there, and this way, we can launch a surprise attack."

"What about the others," Maylene asked.

"You know about aura," Key simply said, "Rave and Dark will sense us and telepath it to Reggie." She ran into the forest, keeping to the shadows and motioning Maylene to follow.


Back at the house, Ash and Paul launched aura attacks at the balloon, causing it to blow up. However, knowing the former Team Rocket members, it transformed into another robot.

Jessie laughed. "Foolish brats, do you think we haven't learned after all those years chasing the twerp?"

James blinked. "Speaking of the twerp, where'd he go?"

Jessie and Meowth shrugged sadly.

"I miss da good ol' days," Meowth reminisced.

James had Jessie look directly at him, causing her to blush. "It'll be okay, Jess," he whispered.

Another raid of Aura Spheres blasted through the robotic arms.

"It's time to go," Meowth said, pressing a large red button.

Two new Aura Spheres shot out at the balloon from the forest. Key, Maylene, and her Lucario ran out of the forest.

"Lucario," Maylene commanded, "Bone Rush!"

"Lucario." Lucario smacked a long bone at where the nets connected to the robot, releasing the pokemon, only to have their trainers return them.

Four Aura Spheres then shot at the robot, destroying it and sending the three blasting off.

"I really missed this," Meowth said.

Both Jessie and James nodded, holding hands and staying close so they wouldn't get separated.

In unison they all shouted, "Team Dark Obsidian's blasting off for once!"

PING

"Are you alright," Maylene asked, running over to Reggie. He gave her a quick peck.

"I am now."

Key looked up at where the former Team Rocket Members disappeared. She then looked over at her friends. "Dark Obsidian," she asked, "What was that about?"

Paul only shrugged. Sensing something bothering Ash, he changed the subject. "Reggie, can we stay here for the night, it's getting late."

Reggie nodded. "Follow me."

Everyone but Ash followed, he was glaring at the ground. "So that's what it's called," he thought, "Dark Obsidian. I swear, I'll find whoever nearly hurt my mom; who was part of what ruined my life." His knuckles clenched in irritation.

Pikachu had the same look on his face, residing on his usual spot on Ash's shoulder.

"Ash? Pikachu?"

Both turned to see Key standing at the door.

"Aren't you two coming?"

Ash grunted in response. Both then raced to the door, leaving their thoughts for their dreams.


Done! I know it's short, but I wasn't planning on anything else.

Next Chapter

Waves- It's now time to visit the world of Ash's old friends, explain some things, and dig through memories.