Chapter 10: Comin' to the Rescue
"Anything?" Ashley asked her Staravia
"Star." The bird pokemon said shaking its head.
"Swellow!" Ash's Swellow showed up from the opposite direction.
"You found something?" Ash asked.
"Swell." The bird said nodding its head and flying in the direction.
The group of time travelers followed the pokemon until it landed in a tree. They ducked behind a bush and saw a blue haired man, a red head woman, and a Meowth looking over a sheet of paper. (A/N: Who wants to take a guess?)
"And that's when we grab Pikachu." The Meowth said.
"Great. It's Team Rocket." Tracey groaned.
"But they'll know what year it is." May said.
"I doubt it." Max murmured. "I question their intelligence."
"Aunt Jessie and Uncle James can be smart when they want to be." Ashley defended.
Everyone turned and stared at the girl from the future.
"AUNT Jessie?" Misty asked.
"UNCLE James?" Ash questioned.
"Let's just ask for directions." Delia said getting up. "Excuse me!"
Team Rocket turned as the gang emerged.
"It's the twerps!" Meowth shouted.
"Prepare for Trouble."
"And make it…"
"Yeah, yeah." Gary interrupted. "What year is this?"
"2007?" James answered wondering what was wrong with our heroes.
"How many times do we have to tell you to NOT INTERRUPT THE MOTTO?!" Jessie yelled
Everyone sighed with relief.
"We need to borrow your balloon." Sammy said.
"Give us Pikachu." Jessie tried to negotiate
"How about, we get a balloon ride, and we won't tell anyone about how many times we blasted you off." Misty threatened.
"OR how many times you've helped US." Ash added.
"Name one time." Jessie demanded
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"Thanks for the ride, Aunt Jessie." Ashley said.
"DON'T call me that." Jessie said annoyed.
After spouting off exactly how many times Team Rocket helped them out, Jessie, James, and Meowth took them for the ride. Our heroes explained that Ashley's grandparents were captured, and Team Rocket agreed to help on the condition that is was to be kept between them and those being rescued.
Not everyone was in the balloon. Dan had told Brock, Tracey, and Max to go get Officer Jenny to come help. It was suppose to be just Brock, but Misty had Tracey and Max follow because of how Brock can act around Jenny. Max was to keep Brock under control while Tracey asked for the assistance.
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"LET US OUT OF HERE!" Dan yelled shaking the bars of the prison held.
"Dan?" Delia asked. "Do you have a fire type with you?"
"Yes."
"How about a water type?" Professor Oak asked understanding where she was going.
"No. John usually carried the water pokemon"
Both wife and mentor slapped their foreheads
"LET ME GO!" a familiar female voice screamed.
The prison doors swung open. Before Dan could run out, he was knocked over when the villains threw in their newest prisoner and the doors slammed shut.
"Well, well." A cold voice said.
"Reor." A Persian meowed
"Gio." Dan acknowledged his old rival. "What are YOU doing here?"
"You know that old saying, Ketchem." Lucius smirked. "The enemy of my enemy is my ally."
"The saying is The enemy of my enemy is my FRIEND!" The other prisoner said.
"You forgot one thing, Sis." Dan said to his sister. "They don't HAVE friends. Friends stick together no matter what. With these guys, once the power sets in with either one, the other WILL turn."
"Well, I'm not the one behind bars." Giovanni gloated.
"Yet." Delia said with a small smirk as she remembered something. "Remember, Sweetheart?"
Dan gave his wife a questioned look. She put her hand on her midsection and jerked her head toward the air vent behind the villains. He nodded with understanding.
"Don't count your Torchic before they hatch." Professor Oak said wisely.
Giovanni just rolled his eyes as the bad guys walked away.
"How in the world did you get captured, Chris?" Dan asked.
There was movement from the vent as if someone had lost their balance.
"Chris?" a voice from the vent asked
"Remember when we told you that her grandparents had been kidnapped?" May's voice came.
"Yes?"
"She's from OUR future." Ash's voice came.
"Okay." James said. "Who is not from 2007?"
"Four of yous?" Meowth exclaimed after a moments pause.
(A/N: From this point on, younger Daniel Ketchem will be Dan while his older self will be Daniel. Older Delia will be referred to as Older Delia while her younger self will be referred to as Younger Delia.)
Suddenly, the air vent opened. Ash, Misty, May, Gary, Sammy, Dan, Younger Delia, Jessie, James, Meowth, and Pikachu came tumbling out. Celebi came flying in behind them.
"Le Bi." Celebi greeted as its "parents" and their friends groaned.
"Ash!" Delia called out worriedly.
"Mom!" Ash said as he ran up to the cell. "Dad! Professor! Are you okay?"
"Someone grew up." Chris said.
"Aunt Christine?" Ash asked noticing the raven haired female.
"We can do introductions later." Dan said as he tested the bars. "Steel. Where's John when you need him?"
"John?" May asked.
"His best friend, John Waterflower." Younger Delia answered. "He trains water pokemon, and now runs a gym with his wife and three…I think now going on four daughters."
"He's my Dad." Misty said as she pulled out a pokeball and winked at her boyfriend.
Ash nodded and pulled out one of his pokeballs.
"Torkoal!" Ash called out
"Stary…!" Misty started to call, but a light came from her backpack.
"Psy?"
"Psyduck!" Misty groaned in annoyance.
After getting the Psyduck situation under control, she managed to get Staryu out.
"Stand back." Chris said understanding what her nephew and his girlfriend were doing.
"Flamethrower!" Ash called.
After the bars grew red from the heat, he turned to Misty and nodded.
"Water gun!" Misty ordered
After the same pattern for three rounds, Ash turned to Pikachu.
"Iron Tail."
"PiiikkKA!"
The bars smashed and the prisoners walked out.
"Shouldn't you be resting?" Daniel asked Younger Delia.
Suddenly, an alarm went off.
"I should have seen this coming." Daniel said to himself.
"Run!" Gary shouted when he saw the members of Team Rocket who wore black and Team Darkness run towards them.
"You go that way!" Ash told Team Rocket pointing in a different direction. "That way it won't seem like you helped us."
After a few feet, Ashley turned around with a pokeball in her hand.
"Glaceon!" she yelled as she released her pokemon
"Gla." A blue Eveelike pokemon said
"Ice beam the floor."
The plan worked. The ice on the floor was too slippery for the villains to make a direct run towards our heroes.
"Nice thinking." Ash told his future daughter when they made it to the top of the blimp they were on.
"I learned it from you."
"So, when does Ashy-boy become smart?" Gary teased.
Ash gave him a death glare.
"Thought you'd try to escape?" Lucius said.
"No. We WILL escape." Sammy said before looking over the side. "I just don't know how"
Dan noticed Younger Delia looked a little nervous as she subconsciously put her hand on her midsection. Ashley also looked hesitant as she fingered something in her pocket.
Ash noticed her action and gave her a questioned looked. Ashley took a deep breath and pulled out a red and blue ball with the letters RS on it.
"Now, come with us like good prisoners," Giovanni said as if he was talking to toddlers. "And we won't kill you."
"You'll have to catch us first." Ashley said releasing the pokemon inside the pokeball over the side and jumping over.
"She is most definitely your future kid." May told Ash.
She was talking to empty space as Ash followed Ashley.
"I can't believe I'm doing this." Misty said as she followed.
Everyone else followed her as the pokemon that was in the ball caught them on its back and dove into the ocean.
Daniel handed everyone except Misty and Ashley underwater breathing devices (They were excluded because they already had one)
"When did you get a Kyorge?" Ash said.
The truth was, she had borrowed the pokeball from her Dad's shelf of pokemon.
"You'll see." Ashley said guiltily.
TBC