Simon was like a tracking dog as he led the way to the two human children that the dragons were so fond of.
"That kid is always full of surprises..." Akito said. "What do you think he'll do when he grows up?"
"Probably be a serial killer." Cherry shrugged off like that was normal.
"Yikes!" Lee flinched.
Simon continued to follow the scent of blood until he finally got to where it came from.
Cherry came to her son's side. "Well?"
Simon pointed to the cave where Max and Emmy were held captive.
"Okay, I'll go in first," Estelle said. "It's me they want... And then, we'll surprise them..."
"Shouldn't you make it look like you brought Pokemon?" Akito asked. "Team Rocket might not be the smartest villains in the world, but I think they'll notice your bluff if you come barehanded."
"You're right." Estelle said, bringing out her Pokeballs before Akito gave her his Pokeballs as well.
"Here, that's a lot to carry..." Ord said before reaching into his pouch and took out a bag. "Here, you go."
Akito, Estelle, and Lee stared at him.
"What?" Ord asked. "You haven't seen a dragon pouch before?"
"We've never even heard of a dragon pouch." Akito said.
"We didn't even know dragons had pouches..." Estelle added.
"That's a new one even on me and my husband's centuries old..." Cherry murmured.
"Thanks for the bag..." Estelle said, then put her and Akito's Pokeballs into the bag, then whispered to it. "Don't worry, guys, no matter what happens, I'll never let you go, you're all my babies and I love you all."
"Well, you better get in there." Akito said.
"Okay..." Estelle carried the bag over her shoulders. "Wish me luck."
"Luck!" Akito smirked.
Estelle glared back. "Really?"
Akito shrugged. "You love me really."
Estelle simply rolled her eyes before going into the cave.
"Why you gotta tease your sister?" Lee asked.
Akito shrugged. "I do what I gotta do..."
Estelle took a deep breath as she came into the cave. Simon secretly crawled in behind her and clutched to the wall and had his hunting backpack on that had dangerous and lethal weapons inside of it.
Meanwhile in the building inside the cave...
"It seems like the twerpette is here and it looks like she has her Pokemon and her brother's Pokemon inside that pouch." Butch said once he saw Estelle coming to the building with the dragon pouch filled with the Pokemon inside it.
"Excellent observation, Hutch..." Cassidy mumbled.
"The name is Butch!" Butch glared.
Max and Emmy hid laughs at that, that was the best thing that has happened to them since their kidnapping.
"Oh, you kids think this is funny!?" Butch glared at their hostages. It's Butch, not Hutch, you better remember it!"
"Hey, calm down, Bill..." Emmy said to purposely make him mad.
"IT'S BUTCH!" Butch snarled.
"Hey! Rutch, Cassidy, I'm here! And I brought the Pokemon!" Estelle told them from outside the building.
"Heeey, the name is BUTCH!" Butch snapped.
"Quiet, Biff, she's come with what we asked for." Cassidy smiled sinisterly.
Max and Emmy still laughed since Butch was getting aggravated.
"So, we better go and get what she came here to give us." Butch said.
"I'll handle this... You watch the brats." Cassidy said, then walked off. "Make sure they don't try anything."
Butch scoffed. "What can they do?" he then grinned darkly to Max and Emmy who glared at him nastily. "Looks like it's just the three of us..."
"Yeah, me, Emmy, and you, Bubba." Max said.
"It's BUTCH!" Butch growled at him. "Weren't you listening to a word I said!?"
Cassidy left the three of them alone, already knowing that those two would agitate Butch while she would get the Pokemon.
Estelle gulped slightly, but put on her best brave face as she carried the bag of Pokeballs. The door of the building opened, showing that they were ready for her to give them her and Akito's Pokemon.
"You got what we asked for?" Cassidy asked with an evil smirk.
"Yes... I hope you're happy..." Estelle sneered. "Where are Max and Emmy?"
"First, the Pokemon." Cassidy demanded, holding out her gloved hand.
"The children first and then the Pokemon!" Estelle glared.
"Knowing Cassidy, she won't keep her word." Akito whispered.
"Pokemon..." Cassidy smiled darkly. "Then you get the brats."
"No way! Knowing you, you would take the Pokemon and then leave with the Max and Emmy." Estelle glared.
"Ooh, someone has gotten smarter since the last times we've seen each other." Cassidy smirked evilly.
"I've always been smart, I'm nearly a prodigy..." Estelle glared. "I saw right through your plan!"
"Then I guess I'll have to take the Pokemon by force." Cassidy said before bring out one of her own Pokeballs.
Estelle gripped the bag. "This wasn't in the deal!"
"Who's smarter now?" Cassidy grinned.
"Still me." Estelle said.
"Come on out, Raticate, go and grab the bag!" Cassidy called out, throwing out the Pokeball.
The ball glowed briefly and there came out an orange rat like creature who looked very menacing and glared to Estelle.
"No!" Estelle clutched the bag.
"Do you want Max and Emmy or not?" Cassidy smirked evilly.
Estelle squeezed her eyes shut as a tear rolled down her cheek. "You can't have either of them!"
"Then give me the Pokemon!" Cassidy glared before they heard an explosion from an attack inside the building.
The three of them looked and saw Max and Emmy running out of the building.
"What the!?" Cassidy glared back. "WHAT HAPPENED!?"
"My guess is your partner's frustration got the better of him." Estelle smirked.
And where she was right as Butch came out with his Houndour looking a little scared as they looked at Cassidy.
"WHAT HAPPENED!?" Cassidy yelled at Butch.
"They kept on getting my name wrong!" Butch told her.
"Raticate, make sure those two brats don't escape!" Cassidy ordered.
The rat Pokemon nodded to her and scampered off to track down Max and Emmy. It got right in front of the two kids before they could get any further, Max and Emmy tried to go back, but were then encountered by Houndour.
"Okay, Houndour, if either of those brats try to escape, use your bite on them." Butch told his Pokemon.
Houndour nodded to his trainer and bolted off. Simon was crawling on the cave walls, he latched onto a stand and stood on it, then took out a bazooka gun. Max and Emmy kept running and trying to find ways out of the cave before it would be too late. Simon shot the bazooka and made a door for them to go out of.
"Why you little brat!" Cassidy glared at Simon as soon as she saw what happened.
Simon glared back to her.
"Come on, Max!" Emmy took her little brother's hand and ran out the new exit.
"Oh, no, you don't! Raticate, attack those brats with Poison Fang!" Cassidy ordered out, evilly and cold-hearted now.
Raticate snarled and started to use his attack against Max and Emmy.
"Faster, Max!" Emmy urged.
Max ran as fast as he could as the attack was coming down. Simon hopped down and took out a shield in front of Max and Emmy to block the Pokemon's attack.
"Houndour, get that brat with the shield out of the way!" Butch ordered, not caring if Emmy or Max got poisoned.
Houndour snarled and tackled Simon. Simon growled as he was tackled to the ground and was pinned down. Raticate then scampered after Max and Emmy to try his attack again. Max and Emmy came to the end of the cave, only to find a very big drop down below with rushing waters.
Raticate now jumped and was about to strike its attack on them. Emmy and Max held each other as they awaited for the attack to hit or for them to be saved. The dragons saw what was about to happen to their two human friends and where this caused something to happen. The young dragons mustered all of their courage,
"Come on, guys, it's now or never!" Ord called, trying to be brave for once.
"Right!" the others agreed.'
The dragons flew up in the air as Max and Emmy felt like their days were numbered. And where the dragons flew in just in time as they grabbed Emmy and Max and saved them from the Poison Fang. Raticate growled and tried to poision the dragons now. Cassie and Ord put Max and Emmy on their backs. Zak and Wheezie glared at Raticate, and even though they were good dragons, they burned the Pokemon with their fire breath since he was trying to hurt their friends. And where Raticate was blown away by the flames, but was still able to stand.
"Darn, that wasn't enough..." Wheezie frowned.
"It's okay, Wheezie, we did our best." Zak soothed his sister.
Then before anything else Ord's, Cassie's, Wheezie's, and Zak's badges started to glow brightly.
"Whoa!" Max flinched from the bright light. "Cool!" he then lost his balance for a moment and started to fall.
"MAX!" Emmy cried.
Max screamed as he then fell in the water and was rushing to a waterfall.
"MAX!" Akito saw that and gasped, he then took off his shoes and jumped into the water.
"Is he crazy!?" Lee panicked. "He'll get killed out there!"
"Just wait." Estelle smiled, knowing that Akito would be able to save Max.
