Hi, hi. Okay, everyone knows what chapter this is and what episode it's based on, so lets just get into this. Time to introduce Team Rocket. I replied to someone about this, but the message at the end of last chapter saying I had no plans for Pokemon in this chapter, it was meant for Ash only. Not the other 3. Got that, now lets begin this chapter.


Making it towards the entrance of the giant mountain know as Mt Moon, the group chatted about their plans for when they made it through the mountain's long and dark caverns. Suddenly, Ash's eyes spotted sight of a man by the entrance. He was cowering under a group of Zubat, screaming for help. Ash looked at Pikachu, and cried out. "Pikachu, help that man with Thunder Shock!"

"Pika!" nodded Pikachu, shocking the Zubats down. Brock seemed to take this as a chance to catch one of the Zubat, whilst the other 3 weren't probably looking as they were focused on helping the man.

The man stood up, shaking his lab coat down, before looking at the children. "Thanks for helping me, those Zubat came out of nowhere," he sighed, watching as the Zubats got back into flight and flew into the cave. "I was sent to help the Zubat, Clefairy and the other Pokemon, as someone's been lighting up the caves recently. It's not safe for them to be living in the light, since they are more nocturnal then other Pokemon."

"I see," Ash said, looking into the cave which was indeed lighter then it should have been. "It's sounds bad, the poor Pokemon must not be happy with the lights being put up."

"I know, people have been after the Moon Stone recently since it can be sold for a lot of money. It's one of the rarer Evolution Stones and thus one of most expensive since many of the 'pet' Pokemon evolve using it," the man explained before realizing something. "You 4 are trainers, correct? My name is Seymour, I'm a scientist from the Pewter Museum. I could really use the help with this, I want to give the Pokemon the freedom they deserve."

"Alright, Mr Seymour," said Misty, with a confident smile as she continued to explain what she was planning on doing to help. "We'll stop the idiots, who have been disturbing the Pokemon."

"Oh, thank you, thank you!" yelled the scientist, shaking Misty's hand rapidly. This got a little on his nerve, but she gave a nervous smile. Once she was given the freedom, she went and stood next to Brock. "I'm sorry about that, I just really want to help the Pokemon who live here."

Ash smiled brightly, giving a thumbs up to the scientist as he said. "You got it!"

The group walked into the cave, Brock and Serena began to remove the lights from the sides. The lights had made a long corridor through the mountain, much to the despair of the Pokemon. Paras and Sandshrew were hiding in various little holes, trying to avoid the bright light. Serena frowned as she knelt down, petting one of the Sandshrew. "You poor things, humans have been making your home horrible...haven't they?"

"Sand...shrew," the poor Pokemon cried as it rested it's head on the honey blonde's lap. She frowned as she gently petted the Sandshrew, looking at the other Pokemon who loved depressed.

"Humans have always been cruel," Seymour uttered, sadly. "But going as far as the ruin a Pokemon's home, it's despicable. The Pokemon, who live here, want to live in harmony and look at their beloved Moon Stone," he turned and saw a Clefairy hopping over with a young Cleffa, the mama Clefairy was holding a moon stone in her paws. "Trying to protect their young from humans, but they can't when the cave is this light."

"The poor things..." Serena whimpered, as the Clefairy and Cleffa came up to here and sat on her lap. She gently petted the pair of them, before looking up at Ash and Seymour. "Is there any evidence as to who did this?"

"Well, we found a piece of magenta colored hair by one of the lights and then later on, we found some lavender hair by one of the rocks. It's the only piece of evidence we have, but judging by the paw prints they have been about the sets of foot prints, so they have a Pokemon with them that's walking."

"2 people and a unknown Pokemon?" Brock asked, with clear confusion. "I saw a magenta haired girl and lavender haired boy with a Meowth at the museum a few days ago when I went to check on the newly resurrected Pokemon. There's a chance of them being the cause of this..."

"That would be correct, Mr Gym Leader," said a feminine voice from behind them, the group turned to see a pair of humans of about 20 staring at them. They matched Brock's description, but the woman had blue eyes and the man had green eyes. A Meowth was standing between them, not acting like the general concept of the Scratch Cat Pokemon.

"Prepare for Trouble!" The woman said.

"And make it double!" The man continued, holding a black rose closed to him.

"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 to the stars above!" the man said as he threw the rose away from him.

"Jessie!" the woman revealed her name, as she made a random pose.

"James!"

"Team Rocket, blast off at the speed of light!"

"Surrender now, or prepare to fight!"

"Meowth, that's right!" the Meowth suddenly joined in, revealing his ability to speak humanly, much to the shock of the 4 children and Seymour since it wasn't common for Pokemon to be able to speak, outside of telepathy.

"Team Rocket?" asked Ash, understandably confused by the appearance of Jessie and James. But he instantly made the connection and asked in a serious tone of voice and manner. "Are you three responsible for the lights in the cave?"

"Why, yes," said Jessie, with a grin. She explained her motives, without a care for the children. "Our Boss wants the giant Moon Stone that rests deep within this mountain and we didn't want to work in the dark, so we won't let little Pokemon trainers get involved. Ekans, go!" she grabbed a poke ball and sent out the Ekans she was calling for.

"The Boss wouldn't be happy if we came back without any of the Moon Stones," James continued, grabbing his own poke ball. He threw it into the air and yelled out "Koffing, go!"

The two poison types stood prepared to battle. Ash snarled, looking down at his starter Pokemon as he said to his loyal friend. "Poliwhirl, you ready to remove this threat to your fellow Pokemon?"

"Poli!" she nodded in agreement, jumping into a battle-like pose. She was very much prepared to battle, since she hadn't been in an trainer battle yet and she was prepared to win for her trainer.

Brock looked at his new poke ball before sending the Zubat out. "Zubat, are you ready for your first battle," the Pokemon nodded and got into a pose like Poliwhirl's, but flying as opposed to being on the group.

"Koffing, use Smog!" yelled James, calling to his Koffing.

"Poliwhirl, Ice Ball!"

"Zubat, Whirlwind!"

The Ice Ball knocked Koffing's concentration after it executed the attack, which gave Zubat the chance to send the attack back on Team Rocket. The pair of trainers and Meowth gasped as the purple smoke went straight into the Pokemon and knocked them down a little. Suddenly, the mama Clefairy jumped in front of Ash and Brock's Pokemon and wiggled her finger around, which confused the children and Team Rocket, the latter bursting into laughter at the surprising action.

"Metronome!" gasped Seymour, recognizing and explaining the move to the children, as the Pokemon continued to wiggle her finger. "It's a move that randomly selects another and always hits, there is no chance for a miss!"

The Metronome chose Hyper Beam as the move used, sending Team Rocket blasting out of the cave and far away as they yelled "Team Rocket are Blasting Off!"

"Bye, Team Rocket!" yelled Misty with glee, like she expected that to happen.

Serena nodded, giggling. She was still holding the little Cleffa on her lap, as she petted it's head kidnly. She got up and was about to give the young Baby Pokemon to it's mother when the Clefairy shock her head and said in a kind voice. "Clef!"

Ash smiled, knowing what the mama Pokemon had said and decided to tell that to his girlfriend, without revealing his ability to understand Pokemon yet, since he wasn't sure about her reaction to it and didn't want her to have a negative one when they had only just became lovers. "I think she wants you to capture Cleffa and look after it for her, since you seem responsible and love Pokemon."

"Really?" uttered Serena, as she looked at the pink Pokemon in surprised. She had to ask the question on her mind, confusion clearly written on her face. She didn't want to separate the Cleffa from it's mother without understanding "Is that really what you want me to do?"

"Fairy," nodded the Pokemon, handing a Moon Stone to her. She was clearly implying that if Serena ever wanted to evolve the Cleffa after it evolved into Clefairy, she would have the Moon Stone ready. "Clefairy," she was saying goodbye to her child before hoping off to reunite with the other waiting Clefairy and Clefable that were out and about now that the threat was gone and the lights would be removed. The Cleffa began to cry a little, which lead to Serena comforting it and it seemed to start believing she was it's mother.

"Moon Stones...if I remember correctly, do any of you have a Jigglypuff or Nidoran?" said Seymour, as he held one of the spare Moon Stones. "We obtained these stones recently, and the Pokemon even agreed to let us research them."

"I have a recently evolved Nidorino..." Ash said after hearing this, before being given the stone.

"If you ever want to evolve the Pokemon, you can have this," the scientist said with a smile. "Now, I'm fine now that the threat has been removed, I can handle removing the rest of these lights. You children can head to the other side of the mountain and you'll be at Cerulean City within an hour or two. I know that as trainers, you'd be waiting your next gym badge as soon as possible so I'm not gonna hold you back."

"Alright!" said Ash as he began to run through the cave, followed by Pikachu and Poliwhirl. Serena chuckled and followed after him, carrying her new Cleffa in her arms. Misty and Brock looked at one another, sighed, and then followed after the other two children out of the cave. The Journey was going to continue, next stop was the Cerulean City Gym and Ash's and Misty's first ever battle.


Hope you enjoyed this chapter, it's a little short in my opinion but it does the introduction to Team Rocket and introduces Brock and Serena's respective third Pokemon. You'll be seeing a lot of Cleffa as Serena begins her contests.

Pokemon Teams:

Ash

Poliwhirl (Female)(Shiny)

Pikachu (Male)

Magikarp (Male)(Shiny)

Dratini (Female)

Oddish (Female)

Nidorino (Male)

Oak's lab

Beedrill (Male)

Misty

Goldeen (Male)

Staryu (No gender)

Starmie (No gender)

Azurill (Female)

Brock

Geodude (Male)

Onix (Male)

Serena

Fennekin (Female)

Pancham (Male)

Cleffa (Female)