Disclaimer: Continued on from the last part...If you want one go back there.

To the reviewers:

Alex Warlorn: It gets worse before it gets better. And we will see about Mewtwo...

Dragoness: So many questions. @_@ Let's see if I can't answer some. About Gary you'll have to keep reading. Meyer is a faire type pokémon specialist, but if you mock him he'll shoot you... The other rocket's are there for a reason. And yeah your right all will be reveled.

Forge Weasley: Thanks I will.

Now on with the saga:

"AND ASH KETUCM HAS DONE IT! HE HAS WON HIS FIFTH ROUND MATCH!" The announcer screamed. The fans jumped up in their seats as Ash ran on to the field to greet his new charmeleon, who promptly burned his face with a small ember.

*Thanks for the support but don't embarrass me, * He grumbled.

"Noted," Ash coughed out as Richie walked across the field to him shaking his head.

Pokémon Oaked Style: Vision 10-2 the balance part 2

Meyer stared of the cliff with the still smoking rifle in his hands. The other grunts had left leaving only a stunned Jessie, James and Meowth. Butch and Cassidy stayed as well but they where not as shocked, just somewhat surprised.

"I didn't know that the boss wanted to have that twerp killed," Cassidy said walking up the edge of the cliff and peering off.

Meyer shrugged and said, "All he said was that, some one was getting in his way and that it would be nice if he wasn't anymore. He showed me some pictures and of some very good trainers and asked me who I thought would win the Indigo finals."

"So if the boss didn't specify what he wanted done..." Butch started.

"Then he can't be charged with it later," Cassidy finished. "I have to hand it to him, that's smart."

"Of course, that's why he's the boss," Meyer said coldly. He was going to say more but his butterfree floated up the cliff with news.

*No sign of him boss except his shirt, * He said holding up the bloody and water logged shirt. The sleeves and collar where torn, explaining how it got off the boy.

"Good put it back close to where you found it. Make sure someone will be able to spot it," Meyer ordered. His pokémon nodded then flew off.

"Do you want him to be found?" Cassidy questioned.

"The tournament won't go forward if there is a missing member. I am just going to fix that problem before hand," He said. "Now come on, we have to prepare for the end of said tournament. We have some guests to invite." He then turned and walked back into the woods, Butch and Cassidy following.

"Jessie, I don't like that guy," James said.

"I don't either, but it doesn't matter he's in charge. So let's go get this done as soon as possible," she said following the other rockets. James followed quietly.

(Poor kid,) Meowth thought as looked off the cliff. He quietly followed the rest.

Ash was in the locker room in very high sprits. Billie, Richie and his Mom were in there as well.

"Nice win Ash," Richie said cheerfully. " I never expected charmander to evolve like he did."

"Me nether, I guess he just need to have a bit more experience," Ash said nervously.

"Anyway I'm happy that you won, sweetie," Mrs. Ketchum spoke up. "I know that you win your next match as well."

"Speaking of your next match, can I speak to you privately?" Billie asked.

"Sure. I'll see the two of you later," Ash said to his mom and Richie. The two left and Ash turned to Billie. "So what do you want to talk to me about?"

"It's just that with all of this you are very public and I'm afraid that the Boss might try something," She stated worriedly.

"Oh you worry to much. There are Police Officers everywhere. I don't think he would try anything," He stated dismissively. "Besides, with all of us here, we can take anything he might throw at us. Plus I have my partner to watch my back right?" He asked as he turned to leave.

"I don't think we should let our guard down. The boss may be more ruthless then you think. But you're right when you say that we can take anything!" she exclaimed as she followed him.

Holly on the other hand wasn't so sure. Seeing what happened to Gary, she was trying to convince her older sister to let her do something.

*Just let me point one of his friends in the right direction! * She begged.

Celia shook her head and said, *I share you sentiments, but they have to stand on their own now or fall. We have done enough meddling in their lives. Now all we can do is watch. * The green celebi looked at her agitated younger sister in pity as she turned back to the pool. (I understand what you want to do, but you don't have the energy to do anything else anyway, and I can't do to my position,) She thought.

At Ash's townhouse, there was much celebrating and cheer. They had found out that Ash had one more fight ahead of him and the number one position. The lively talking was interrupted by a sharp knock on the door. Brock opened up the door to find Janine and Sabrina, who had just arrived that afternoon, holding a battered pikachu and an upset smoochum, respectively. Janine's words cut the evening air.

"Something has happened to Gary," she stated in a monotone. Within the hour, Sabrina had translated the pokémon's story and the group had gotten the league officials to start a search. The searchers found the bloodstains on the cliff side after a short time of looking in the area the pokémon saw him last. They quickly switched the search to the base of the cliff and the river. And in the early hours of the morning the found his ripped, bloodstained shirt next to the river. A lot, if not all the hope of finding the young man alive vanished at that point.

That is why later that morning the group, now including Sabrina, Janine, Pikachu and Smoochum, woke in somber frame of mind. Pikachu left the others early at breakfast, and headed to the balcony on the second floor. He stayed there for a while pondering on Gary, and his disappearance. (I don't believe he is dead, after all he made a promise not to... do that,) He thought. Someone walking next to him broke his train of thought.

*Hi, * Electra said quietly. *I came up here to see if you where ok. *

*I'm fine. I mean its not like Gary is d...gone or something. He just got lost. After all he promised he be all right and he never breaks a promise. * Pikachu said quickly.

*Of course he just got lost! After all he promised didn't he! * She exclaimed.

*Hey you're right. He's could also be keeping low, * Pikachu said thinking of other reasons they couldn't find Gary.

*That's the ticket. Now come on you have got to tell Lansky that, that kid doesn't know what to think and needs you advice, * Electra said looking expectedly at him, paws on her hips. He looked at her as the wind played with her fur and smiled softly

He stood up and said, *you know, you're cute when you give advice, * He quickly moved pass her while she stood in stunned silence. She blushed then hurried after him.

When Ash went to find out his next opponent was, with less then his usual resolve, he found out the rest of the tournament was going to proceed in memory of the lost trainer. His last match would be against a girl from Celadon City.

(Everyone thinks he's dead. But for some reason I can't believe that. Gary promised me he would challenge me one last time, and I can't lose here. He said he wanted me to be the best rival. So I won't lose,) Ash thought. He nodded then went out to the stadium, his head held high and fire in his eyes. And if those who looked at him saw tears there as well, they didn't say anything.

The following six on six battle that afternoon was vicious. Ash went all out against his opponent. He was up five to her one. She called her last pokémon an ivysaur. Ash switched his bulbasaur with his charmeleon.

"Ivysaur put him to sleep with Sleep powder!" She exclaimed. But Ash would have none of that. He ordered Charmeleon to use fire spin. His fire type reluctantly complied. The tornado of fire cut through the powder and surrounded the grass/poison type. He then used fire blast with out orders. When the fire cleared ivysaur was one crispy pokémon. Ash curtly nodded to charmeleon who just turned his back on him. The other trainer just recalled her pokémon stunned. Ash recalled his pokémon and walked off the field his victory bittersweet.

Outside of the townhouse that night a pair of eyes watched the inhabitants as they when about the tasks and rituals preceding to go to bed. Meyer removed the binoculars and turned to Jessie who was leaning on a tree nearby and Butch who had just walked up.

"You say that they all will turn in early, correct?" Meyer asked both of them.

"From past experience yes. But there aren't the heaviest sleepers in the world and they can be woken up if you aren't careful," Jessie answered him.

"Well if they ninja girl or the psychic chick are there they may wake up even if you make no noise at all," Butch said adding his input in.

"Then we will have to make sure that they don't wake up for any reason," Meyer whispered.

"Say now your not going to kill anyone else, are you?" Jessie asked trying not to sound worried.

"No. I don't think that will be necessary. Besides, that would be too much of a risk right now. In fact we aren't going to even steal any pokémon at all. We don't want the police to even know that team rocket was in any shape and form involved with what we are going to do. Besides Butterfree and Victreebel should be enough for our plans," Meyer said.

"If that's settled then let's go get the others," Butch said. The other two nodded their agreement and followed him. That night when all the lights in the townhouse went off, the rockets made their move.

That afternoon, when everyone woke up they found several people missing. Ash, Billie, Pikachu, and Smoochum all where unaccounted for; after a preliminary search it was found that that someone had put sleep powder in the air conditioning unit out side.

Janine summed everyone's feelings quite nicely. "First Gary now this, I for one am tired of losing friends. So I say we find the people responsible and beat the stuffing out of them."

Elsewhere Ash woke up only to wishing that he could go back to sleep. Looking around he found himself strapped to a bed somewhere. He didn't know where his hat was. Charmeleon's pokéball was on there, and he knew he was in trouble without it.

That feeling intensified when he heard a familiar voice. "I'm glad you woke up. It looks like I am going to have to reward those incompetents for a job well done," Giovanni said as he and Persian walked in the room with Ash. "But now that you are awake, I want to ask you a question, what happened to your partner?" He asked.

(The must not have gotten Billie. I know she started to go on night walks ever since I entered the pokémon league,) Ash thought. His face showed no sign of his thoughts however and he honestly answered, "I don't know."

Giovanni shrugged then said, "I didn't think you would know. Still you haven't been very obedient. So I have a way of changing that." Persian growled softly as he pulled a syringe out of his coat pocket. He uncapped it, and checked to see that there where no air bubbles in it.

"What are you going to do with that?" Ash asked nervously.

"I'm just doing something to make following orders easier," Giovanni said as he walked over to Ash's bedside. He calmly held Ash's arm with his left hand and injected him with his right. He as he turned to leave he said to his pokémon, "Watch him. And when he wakes up, tell me."

Ash started at the ceiling as his world spiraled into black. At first he was falling through a featureless void. But that quickly slowed as he saw a large ocean of blue white energy. He stopped just as he reached the surface. As he stood on it watching ripples radiating from him.

"Hello," Ash softly whispered.

"Hello, where are you?" a voice asked back.

"Don't answer that, just dive under," another voice said that sounded just like him.

(I guess if I can trust anyone, then I can trust myself,) Ash thought. He was about to dive under but suddenly sunk into the ocean. As he quickly sunk he saw some type of pokémon approaching him. Before it could reach him, his head went under. (What was that,) he thought.

"A porygon, made to control to you. To bad it was only programmed to work on humans," He answered again.

"Who are you?" Ash asked looked around the white-blue void. It was conformable, bright and warm.

"You. Then again if I am you, then that makes you, well me," the other Ash voice said.

"Ok, that makes some kind of weird sense. Still what do you mean it only works on humans?" Ash asked himself. But the only answer he got was a gradual bighting of the light surrounding him. As he attempted to shield himself from the intense light he felt, but it seemed to ignore his closed eyes and up raised arms. The light adsorbed into his body.

"Be at peace," the voice whispered.

(It's so warm...) he thought as everything when white.

Ash opened his eyes to see black cloth. He struggled for moment to get his head free, and when he did he found the room was a lot larger then he remembered.

*What happened? * He asked as he freed himself from the offending cloth. He was started at what happened next.

*You evolved, * Persian said in awe.

(Evolved?) He thought as he noticed the white fur. He now had large rounded paws like a kangaroo mouse instead of feet. The tips where covered with light pink fur. He had now three fingered paws at the end of shorter arms and a long thin flexible tail that ended in a thicker rounded off point. He couldn't see his face but he had a feeling that it changed as well.

"Mew," he sighed as he sat down. Persian looked at him for a moment, then moved over to a near by dresser.

*He put your hat in here. The rest of your cloths are still on the bed, * she said. Ash was surprised again when he found himself hovering slightly off the bed when he thought about moving over to the dresser. He marveled as he flew over to the dresser.

(One good thing is that I can fly,) Ash thought as he open the top drawer. Inside was his cap, the miniaturized pokéball was still attached to back adjustment strap. (Ash this is your lucky day,) He thought as he floated back down to hover near Persian's eye level holding the cap in his front paws. *Now what? * He asked.

*I will lead you to a hiding place while I get the master, and then I will lead you out tonight when the fuss about you escaping dies down, * She said.

*Ok. But why are you going against him like this? * He asked confused to way the classy cat pokémon would help him.

*I sensed a kindness and light in you the first time we meet. And seeing how you tried so hard to avoid doing anything wrong made me realize that you don't belong here. Plus what he tried to do to you was immoral, and he probably will do much worse if you stay here. Especially since you have evolved into one of the rarest pokémon in the world, * She answered. *Also I like to think of you as a friend. Now follow me. *

*Thanks, I owe you one, * Ash said floating after her as she left the room. Team Rocket would be in an uproar for days as to how he escaped. Do to an unknown side affect of his evolution, all the electronic surveillance equipment showed nothing but white static the entire time he was in the room as a Mew. And Persian knew enough of the security to get him out with out with tripping the rest of the devices out side of the room. So know one knew how a little boy escaped the base of a world wide criminal organization. And know one knew why only took his hat!

Next Vision:

Ash makes back to the others, and has a dozy of time explaining his makeover.

Then he has an appointment elsewhere, as Meyer makes his own plans.

And the vision fades to a new concept.