The Pokemon surrounded Emi, Ash, Akito, Estelle, Jenny, and Vincent back and they ended up inside a laser cage that had laser blasts instead of iron bars. The Pokemon seemed to evilly grin once they were trapped.

Giovanni grinned to all of them. "What a night this has turned out to be, huh? No one can save you all now... Oogie Boogie, they're all yours..."

"Why thank you so kindly, gentlemen!" Oogie grinned as he kept a hold of Felicity, he decided to cook them all as his dinner and he was going to eat like a king tonight. "Who says the bad guys can't win at the end?"

"Oh, let us out and we'll make your fabric tear!" Vincent exclaimed.

"I'd like to see you all try!" Oogie laughed as he chopped vegetables into a cauldron as he kept Felicity in a golden sphere above the floor.

"What shall we do with this one?" Giovanni asked Jackson as he held a very weakened and sad Cherry with Jack.

"Put 'em in with the other one..." Jackson laughed. "We have all we need."

The Pokemon joined in his laughter.

Giovanni smirked darkly and put Jack and Cherry into a prison cell with no way out.


Cherry sniffled and she went back to crying, Felicity was going to be eaten alive, Simon was going to grow up without a mother, and Forte would probably go on an emotional rampage. She may have been immortal, but all these miserable things were slowly killing her on the inside.

"Now, now, Cherry... There has to be a way out..." Jack soothed her.

"But there isn't..." a male voice said to them.

"Huh?" Cherry blinked with her tear-filled eyes. "Who said that?" she looked around, but saw no one else with her, but the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town.

"Over here." The male voice said.

They looked until they finally found the source of the voice.

Cherry briefly shut her eyes, but opened them again as her eyes seemed to turn bright green as she saw a black-haired man with hints of gray and had facial hair, he seemed to had been wearing torn-up clothing. "W-Who are you...?" she wondered, not really recognizing him.

"My name is Satoshi Ketchum and I have been a prisoner to Giovanni Sakiki for the past four years, kept away from my loving wife and two children." the stranger revealed.

"Four years?" Jack asked out of surprise.

Cherry was surprised as well.

"Yes..." Satoshi nodded. "It's a long story... Four years ago, I was living happily with my family like I had been after being married to my darling wife for eleven years. One night, I realized we were out of milk, so I decided to go get some, so I took my car into town and drove from our Pallet House to get some...

"However, something terrible had happened... I recognized a Persian Pokemon and it tried to distract me, but that was when Giovanni decided to take me away... I don't know why, he just did it... He used to be my best friend...

"But he turned to the dark side... He then made me a promise, he wouldn't kill me... If I would serve him, but I would never ever see my wife or children again for as long as I should live..."

"Wow, well how old were you children when you were kidnapped?" Jack asked.

"My son was six and my daughter was only three..." Satoshi sighed. "I keep hearing about them since Giovanni hires Team Rocket to capture my son's Pikachu, but I never actually got see them and let them all know that I'm okay... They probably think I abandoned them..."

Cherry looked at him, long in stunned and cold silence, as she took out a pack of cigarettes, then scooted closer to the man, who did not seem bad at all, despite working with the big bad himself. "Believe it or not, I know how you feel..."

"You do?"

"Yes..." Cherry said, put one of the fiery tubes in her mouth and lit it, puffing out some smoke, but didn't blow in his face. "My second child, a little girl named a name that her father always loved after his own mother... The child was born into royalty, but my father didn't want anything to do with her...

"He wanted me to have a suitor and have the grandchildren he wanted... He called my daughter a mistake... He banished Forte away from our home and made him go back to Prince Adam and Belle...

"After Felicity was born... I was forced to place her on the castle doorstep and abandon my own daughter, my choice or not, and I never saw her until she was eight-and-a-half-years-old.

"Oh my, well your father must have been a heartless person." Satoshi said.

"You're telling me..." Cherry sighed. "He got me to stay permanently by threatening to kill my best friend and would only let her live if we stayed with him. He promised me a pleasantable life, but would make her into a servant... Soon, it got a little crazy and Forte decided to move in with us since he 'missed' being a servant in a castle himself...

"I tried to hide my pregnancy as some kind of flu bug, but he walked in on us one day... He was even going to kill the baby, I don't know what turned him around, but it was either give up the baby to her father after he banished him or have her be killed and being forced to watch."

"Oh my, well I think you made the right choice to not let your father kill her." Satoshi said.

"Well of course I wouldn't... She's my baby..." Cherry looked to him, blowing a skull and crossbones smoke cloud.

Jack had to admit that Cherry wasn't that bad a mother, despite being a very cold-hearted woman.

"Now we're all doomed... Nothing can help us..." Cherry sighed.

There was suddenly rumbling in the room. Jack and Satoshi grunted.

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!?" Cherry yelped as they all shook now.

"Sounds like an earthquake or a rescue party." Satoshi guessed.


Oogie kept chopping up vegetables to make the human kids into his stew, but stopped from the rumbling. Giovanni looked up in curiosity.

"Whatever it is better be ready by the Pokemon army." Jackson taunted as he sat among the various battle monsters who were now in his power.

The drill screw was shown through the ceiling before the drill dropped down and shook the whole room. Dr. Finklestein seemed to disappear from the scene as it was just now Atticus, Mo, and Simon. Simon glared at Oogie, Giovanni, and Jackson, he then glowered deeply as he took out a photograph of his mother and made visual demands that he wanted her back or else.

"Oh look... That baby wants Cherry back or else he'll kill us." Jackson mocked.

"Oh boo-hoo," Oogie mocked as well. "What's the kid gonna do?" he laughed out loud.

Simon narrowed his beady black eyes and they seemed to even flash laser green. He took out a knife, put it in his mouth and swung in like on a vine in a jungle adventure. He then took the knife out and put it to Jackson's throat, growling viciously.

"Whoa kid!" Jackson threw him down on the ground. "Didn't Mummy tell you not to play with knives?"

Simon didn't even look hurt, he took out even more knives, he threw them up in the air, making Jackson and Giovanni try to bolt out of the way, but they had hit Oogie Boogie, tearing through his fabric.

"Onix, kill this brat!" Jackson ordered the rock snake Pokemon.

Onix rose up and was set on killing Simon and charged for him. Simon just stood there, once it looked like Onix was about to hit him, Simon leaped up in the air and landed on his back, keeping a firm hold. Simon then held out a tiny fist and bashed the rock snake Pokemon on the head, Onix squeezed its eyes shut and it seemed to somehow turn back to normal. Onix shook its head and looked up and all around, wondering where it was.

"What, but how!?" Jackson asked.

Simon narrowed his eyes to him.

"We better handle the Pokemon and the bad guys," Mo suggested. "Simon, go find the others!"

Simon saluted his aunt and uncle, then after they did the same, he went off.

"I wonder about that kid sometimes..." Mo had a small sigh, not sure what to make of Simon.

"Same here," Atticus said before seeing jackson. "Jackson, I never thought that I would ever see you again."

"Unfortunately for you..." Jackson darkly chuckled.

Mo may not had known Jackson as well as Atticus, but was going to help Atticus take him down.

"You may have took down Oogie Boogie again, but you won't get all of us!" Giovanni laughed as the other Pokemon were still under hypnotic control.

"Atticus, you're mine." Jackson said before cracking his knuckles.

Atticus growled, ready to take Jackson down and hopefully get rid of him from his life for good. "You're gonna pay for everything you've ever done to my sister!"

Jackson laughed, he nearly sounded just like his aunt with his laughter. "YOU WISH!"

Atticus and Mo were then set to take down Jackson together, but Giovanni grabbed Mo's arm and pulled her away to the other room.

"MO!" Atticus cried, then looked angry as he started to fight Jackson.


"You and Jackson will never get away with this evil plan of yours!" Mo yelled at Giovanni.

"Typical female hostage response..." Giovanni chuckled, he got out of the underground as there was a free hole in the ground and he climbed out of it with her. He forced her into a jet and locked her in with him, shutting the doors and he had handcuffed her wrist to the roof as he was going to jet out of Halloween Town with her as his hostage.

"Where are you taking me?!" Mo asked.

"To your new home, my dear..." Giovanni laughed in her face. "Your new home..."

Mo couldn't get out and felt trapped.


Simon had an iron mask and a blowtorch as he was trying to melt the lock on the cage containing the others and finally got them free, powering down the lasers.

"We're free!" Estelle cheered.

Ash, Emi, and Jenny looked a little surprised at their savior. "A BABY!?"

Felicity dropped down safely on the ground and picked up Simon, hugging him. "Oh, merci beaucop, petit frère!" she cheered for him. "You have saved us!" she even kissed him on the cheek.

"Come on, Emi, I think I have a feeling that power that Jackson has in that crystal is actually yours." Akito said as he began to bring her with him.

"Huh...?" Emi felt a little lost.

"I just have a feeling that power rightfully belongs in the right hands yours to be exact." Akito said.

Emi was still lost, she literally looked to her hands.

"You have such a nice and pure heart," Ash said to his sister with a smile. "You rarely get mad... Unlike Misty..." he had a small chuckle.

"Maybe you're right..." Emi blinked. "Maybe I can set the Pokemon back to normal."

Everybody smiled at her, feeling glad now.

"Wait, where's Simon?" Jenny noticed the toddler was missing.


Simon grabbed a lancing sword and ran to the prison door and actually yelled at the top of his lungs, it actually sounded like a real word, he never talked before and when he would try, due to being a toddler, it would be gibberish, but everyone could understand it as he burst the door down through the prison of where Jack, Satoshi, and his mother were. "MAAAAAAAAMMMMMAAAAA!"

"Did you guys hear that?" Estelle asked out of shock.

"He can talk..." Akito blinked.

Cherry, Jack, and Satoshi kept sitting until they heard the scream and thumping. Suddenly, the door fell down open, freeing them.

"MAAAAMAAA!" Simon called as he ran in, dropping the weapon and ran to Cherry, no longer crawling.

"He said his first word..." Cherry whispered as she stood up, surprised and delighted to see her youngest child. "He's talking!"

"MAAAAMAAA!" Simon ran into Cherry's arms and as she picked him up, he actually started to cry and hug her.

"Shh shh shh, it's okay, Simon, Mommy's here." Cherry said, comforting her baby son.

"We're all safe..." Estelle said softly. "Except for Mom... That Boss guy took her..."

"That scoundrel!" Jack was angry. "But what of Oogie Boogie?"

"Simon kinda destroyed him..." Ash said, slightly shocked. "It was kinda cool and creepy..."

Vincent and Jenny nodded in agreement with that perspective.

"Wait, is that...?" Emi asked, recognizing her father once she saw him in there too.

"What is it, Emi?" Ash looked down to his younger sister.

Emi rubbed her eyes to the shadowed figure. "Wha...?"

Satoshi saw his children and walked closer. "Emi... Ash..."

"D-Daddy..." Emi had tears in her eyes.

"DAD!?" Ash was flabbergasted, this was kind of a lot to take in right away.

This was a situation that they never thought that they would ever see their dad in. But Emi didn't let this change anything of what they thought their dad did as she turned away from him.

"Children, what's wrong?" Satoshi asked, sensing some hostility in Ash and Emi.

"How could you leave us like that?" Emi growled as she folded her arms with her back turned to him. "I mean, what was wrong with Pallet Town? All of Mom's friends lived there! They could be your friends too! In case you haven't noticed, Ash and I are Pokemon trainers now and world-famous! Ash even got to become a Chosen One!"

"I know..." Satoshi said softly. "I know all about you two... But, I had no choice but to leave you..."

"Liar!" Ash glared back at his father with tears in his eyes. "Why would someone make you leave us!?"

"Giovanni kidnapped me." Satoshi revealed.

Ash and Emi's expression softened.

"H-He did?" Ash asked. "Team Rocket's boss...?"

"Yes..." Satoshi nodded. "I was really going to buy milk for you all... But, I don't know why... He just attacked me with his Pokemon and forced me to work for him... Believe me, I had no choice... I'm sorry I couldn't tell you or your mother."

This now made perfect sense, they all then felt the whole place shake.

"Dad must be fighting Jackson now." Akito guessed.

Emi and Ash hugged Satoshi.

"Is your father going to be okay?" Satoshi asked, a little worried.

"Don't worry, Dad's got this." Estelle assured.

The whole place continued to shake.

"But on the safe side, we all better go and see how the fight is going." Vincent advised.

"Stay close..." Cherry said as she hid Simon's head behind a towel as she was feeding him.

"Are you really doing that now?" Satoshi glanced to the mother.

"Oh... I'm sorry..." Cherry slowly shut her eyes. "Let me just kick back while Atticus fights his arch nemesis AND MY BABY STARVES TO DEATH!" her fangs and eyes seemed more vibrant as she yelled.

"Never mind... Now is a good time." Satoshi said nervously before he gulped.

They all then went to see how the fight was going. Felicity hugged her mother's legs. Cherry tried to keep Simon in balance whilst feeding him.

Of course, Jackson and Akito were evenly matched, but the Pokemon used their moves and abilities to try to weaken Atticus, being on full command on the bad guy's team.

"Pikachu!" Ash cried to his Pokemon.

Pikachu wouldn't listen, he kept trying to static shock Atticus.

"Emi, you are the only one that can return the Pokemon to normal to reclaim what's yours." Akito said.

"Me? O-Oh, no..." Emi was terribly nervous.

"It won't hurt to try, honey... Please... Do it for the fate of the world and humanity." Satoshi encouraged his daughter.

Emi was a little nervous about this, but she would give it a try.


Jackson looked like he could actually win this battle since he had the Pokemon on his side and he laughed as he pinned Atticus down. "Nothing can stop me now!"

"Except for the power of love and care for Pokemon that I was born with!" Emi stepped in. She caught all the Pokemon, Jackson and Atticus's attentions, this also caused for the glowing sphere to glow even brighter, almost too much for Jackson.

Jackson grunted and glared at the girl. "No... It's impossible! I won't believe it!"

Emi's eyes seemed to glow the same shade as the sphere. "Believe it..." she growled to him.

The Pokemon seemed to stop their powers and they looked to Emi, looking a little different now and less evil. Suddenly, the sphere exploded and the Pokemon blinked rapidly and shook their heads, coming back to normal. Jackson saw the sphere was coming for him and he hopped off Atticus and tried to outrun it. The sphere then hit him, causing for him to crash into a wall and then the sphere went inside Emi, giving her amazing powers.

Jackson got out of the wall and glared at emi wanting to kill her. Emi smiled as she felt empowered, not expecting this at all, but she gasped as Jackson charged for her. Simon hopped in the air after his feeding and latched onto Jackson's face.

"GET OFF ME, YOU BRAT!" Jackson growled, trying to move with the toddler on his face.

Simon stayed on and started to pull his black and white hair, making him hit the walls again on purpose until he would fall down on the ground.

"Simon, get off his face, he's mine to deal with." Atticus said.

Simon looked to his uncle and saw that he was right so he got off Jackson's face. Jackson grunted, very irritated with Simon. Simon stuck his tongue out and clung to his mother.

"Hit me with your best shot." Jackson challenged.

"You bet I will." Atticus said before cracking his knuckles.

"Wait, where's mom?" Vincent asked.


As Atticus and Jackson were having final beat downs, Giovanni was close to taking Mo straight out of Halloween Town. Simon came out of underground and hopped into the bath tub and added some parts to it. Once he was done, he had converted Lock, Shock, and Barrel's bath tub into a flying jet like on Star Wars, complete with laser blasts and chased after Giovanni. He may have been on the path to good, but he was more like Darth Vader right now with his determination.

"My husband is going to beat Jackson to a pulp." Mo said with a smirk.

"Yes, but I'm going to get away with you to destroy him even more!" Giovanni cackled to Mo. "You'll be my secretary and your family will never se you again!" he laughed out loud until he was suddenly hit by a laser blast. "What the flimflam!?"

Mo looked behind and saw the invading jet behind them. "What the...?"

Simon narrowed his eyes as he kept trying to shoot down Giovanni. Giovanni snarled and brought the jet up, missing the Halloween Town door back to the normal world. Simon turned his jet around and kept firing, locked on target and only missing less times than his shooting range that made it.

"Just gotta love that baby nephew of mine." Mo said.

"No I don't!" Giovanni growled, trying to take down Simon.

Simon kept missing him, but one hit actually took down his jet, about to make him fall to the ground and possibly die.

"SIMON!" Mo shrieked, worried about him.

"Ha... Stupid rugrat..." Giovanni laughed as he kept flying, then went back to take Mo back to his hide-out and force her into marrying him if she wanted to continue to live.

However, somehow, don't ask me how, Simon was latching to the bottom of the jet as Giovanni flew it.


Atticus was able to beat up Jackson just as much as Jackson was beating him up, they were both evenly matched, but in the end, Jackson was defeated. The ground was starting to shake and they all got out before the rubble and dirt could collapse on them, trapping them all.

Satoshi was stuck after Emi and Ash got out with their Pokemon, back into their Pokeballs for easier transport. "Go on without me... Tell your mother, I never stopped loving her..."

"No way, we can't leave you!" Ash prevailed in saving his father's life after him being out of the family picture for so long.

"Um guys, look who won." Akito suggested Satoshi, Ash, and Emi to do.

They looked and saw Jackson lost and Atticus had won.

"I can't go on though..." Satoshi said as his kids pulled him.

"We're not leaving you!" Emi cried as she gently pulled as well.

Satoshi struggled, but they were able to all get out. Jenny hugged Oliver right as they were out and she started to cry, this was very big and emotional for her. They all then heard some blasters from right on top of all of them. Cherry watched as Giovanni tried to take Mo away.

"You let go of our mom!" Vincent shook his fist.

"Wait... Simon's on the jet!" Akito realized.

"That kid really worries me sometimes..." Jenny whispered as they all watched.


Giovanni laughed as he was about to get away with Mo, however, as the Halloween Town door was open for them, Simon slid down the windshield upside down, making the bad guy scream. Simon stuck his tongue out, then crashed his head against the glass. He handed Mo a parachute. Mo was worried about leaving Simon alone, but she got on the parachute and went down anyway, hoping Simon would be okay.

"What kind of child are you!?" Giovanni growled as he put the jet on auto pilot and tried to take down Simon, not caring he was only a toddler.

Simon grabbed his throat, trying to strangle him, narrowing his eyes firmly, looking like he could actually kill the man.


"Okay now, that kid is really worrying me." Jenny said.

"You and me both, Jenny." Vincent agreed.

"Oh, I hope that Simon is alright." Estelle pleaded.

The jet was going haywire, it went behind the shops and crashed.

"SIMON!" Cherry yelled out, very worried.