Chapter 6: A good awakening

Giovanni was standing in his office, holding the remote and ready to push the button.

The three of them more terrorized than anything.

James couldn't believe he was so close to death. All those years spent with Jessie and Meowth chasing the twerps… all those years. They had passed so quickly to him. He thought about the first time he had met Jessie. She looked so innocent to him, with her beautiful bright blue eyes.

He couldn't believe that those times were about to finish.

As for Jake, he was as frightened as James. He also was a bit frustrated because of Giovanni. Yeah, he would have died too, but not in the way Jake had wished. He wanted Giovanni to die a well deserved death. Slow and painful, like Melissa's.

As for Jessie, she was more sad than scared. She had lost her match against Giovanni. Definitely. The truth she had realized about her mother's death would have died with her and Giovanni would have never paid for it.

She felt she had to do something to stop her boss. But what?

Jake and James, her best friends, were about to die with her and it was only her fault. She was the one who had to think up something.

Suddenly, she saw the door of the office opening by itself.

A soft, cold wind blew inside making Jessie shiver a little. She knew what it was and just waited for it. She had understood everything.

Giovanni began to scream in terror. He was the only one who could see the woman.

Another time.

The same woman with purple hair dressed up in her TR uniform slowly began to walk in his direction. Her hair covering her face and making it not visible and her head low.

Giovanni's cries caught the attention of some Rocket members, who immediately came in the office.

"Sir, is everything ok?" two Black agents asked concerned.

Giovanni knelt down and held his head in pain screaming. He let go of the remote and Jake precipitated to pick it up. They were safe!

"Sir, what…"

"Go away… GO AWAY!" Giovanni ordered them. He was still holding his head in pain.

The two agents were about to leave the office but they didn't.

"No, don't leave," a determined Jessie said in a serious tone.

Normally, they wouldn't have listened to her. After all, she was a Rocket member ranked the same as them. But her voice was so serious and determinate. Plus, they felt that something strange was going on so they decided to pay attention to her.

"I have a secret to confess," she said, still serious. "Call everyone you can".

The two of them did as they were told.

Meanwhile, a screaming Giovanni was still laying on the floor in pain.

He could see the purple haired woman getting closer and closer to him.

"No, Melissa! Leave me alone, please!" he managed several times to get on his feet but every time, he would have ended up falling on the floor, screaming and crying.

"Leave me alone, please! I'm sorry, Melissa," it was like Jessie's mother was making fun of him.

Finally, the woman spoke to him.

"You are going to pay for what you did". With that she disappeared the same way she had appeared.

Meanwhile, lots of Rocket members had arrived in the office.

They saw their boss in pain but nobody dared help or touch him.

"Listen everyone," Jessie began. "Some of you are certainly very young and haven't been here for a long time," everyone was listening to her. "But some others will surely remember about a Black Rocket named Melissa,"

At those words, they got surprised.

"She was the agent who was killed by an avalanche on a mission!" somebody said.

"But it was many years ago," some other agent replied.

The agents were questioning about this and that.

"Yeah, you're right," Jessie continued. "As some of you already know, she was my mother. But there's something that nobody knows,"

Jessie smiled at Jake, who smiled back. "Come on Jessie, you can do that!"

"It has to do with her death. I've discovered the truth that has been hidden for all these years. My mother's death wasn't an accident like everyone, including me, was forced to believe. She was killed! And the killer is Giovanni!"

Everyone stared at him in disbelief.

"No, don't listen to her! She's crazy!" Giovanni cried. Perhaps he was hoping someone would have trusted him. But it was too late.

"Look at this," Jessie showed them a belt. She had found it inside Giovanni's drawer. "Giovanni used this belt to kill my mother. And there are a lot of pictures and letters which prove Giovanni's love for my mother. A love never corresponded. That's why he killed her,"

Everybody was speechless.

"And for the rest," she continued. "She was killed inside the cabin in the Andes where she and other agents were staying during the mission. Giovanni killed her in the cellar and threw her body in an icy lake near the cabin. That's why it has never been found,"

"And nobody ever suspected about it," a Rocket agent said.

"If only we had known before,"

"Jake was right, we should have trusted him," another Rocket, who had been friend of Jake and Melissa, said before patting him on the shoulder.

Melissa had been very popular in Team Rocket and she had had a lot of friends so everyone was shocked about her death. They couldn't believe that their friend, the once former Team Rocket agent, had been killed by Giovanni.

"You're going to pay, you bastard!"

"Yeah, you shouldn't have done that!"

They yelled to Giovanni who was still crying in pain.

Jessie turned back and looked at her friends with satisfaction. It was finally over.

She embraced Jake and then James. She smiled at her partner and gave him another kiss on the cheek.

The boy blushed again but regained his composure before she could notice.

"Come on, we can go now," Jake said to Jessie and James.

Together, the three of them drove in the direction of Jake's cabin in the wood.

A tired but satisfied look on Jessie's face.