Epilogue

Things in Team Rocket changed rapidly after the revelation of Melissa's death.

A coalition of the best Black Rockets rebelled against Giovanni and took possession of the Headquarters.

They claimed that they didn't want to work anymore for their boss, being the killer he was.

Giovanni was held prisoner by his own employees who locked him in the undergrounds, in the same room where Jessie had been held prisoner by him.

A group of Black Rockets who in the past had known Melissa decided to go to the Andes and visit the place where she had been killed. They also wanted to look for her body in the icy lake which Jessie had told them about.

They visited the cellar and eventually found Melissa's body in the lake and brought it back to Viridian to give her an adequate burial.

And Jessie had never had hallucinations or nightmares about her past anymore.

"Good morning, Miss Jessie," a Rocket agent said as Jessie entered the undergrounds, followed by James, Jake and Meowth.

"Good morning. Where is he?" she asked. Jessie and her friends were dressed up in dark clothes. Both James and Jake wore a black suite while Jessie had a black dress with a dark vale over her face.

They were accompanied in the room where Giovanni was being held prisoner.

His hands and his feet were tied up with chains. Two agents were on guard next to him.

Giovanni had not the courage to look straight in Jessie's eyes. He spat on the ground. Jessie stopped in front of him.

She couldn't stop staring at him with disgust. The man who had ruined her life forever.

She hated him with a passion but, at the same time, she felt mercy for him.

He would have lived the rest of his entire life with a terrible remorse and with all those nightmares. After all, he pretty much deserved them.

"Miss Jessie, we think it's your right," the Rocket agents gave Jessie a gun. She knew very well what they wanted her to do.

As Jessie was staring into his eyes, motionless, she came up with a decision.

Despite her deep, justified hate for him, she couldn't do that. If she had killed him, she would have become a killer herself, just as he was. She would have felt as a murderer if she had punished him with his own blood. She decided to let him alive.

He would still have had horrible nightmares and a terrible remorse for his miserable life.

And, to Jessie, that was enough.

Everyone, including Jake, James and Meowth agreed with her decision and thought it was the best.

All the Rocket agents wanted to make Jessie their new boss so they asked her if she wanted to run the Team. But she refused. Jessie was tired of Team Rocket. Tired of everything related to her past and her mother. Tired of revenge, blood and lies.

She decided to quit Team Rocket and have nothing to do with it anymore.

James and Meowth followed her decision, as for Jake who decided to remain outside of the Team, too.

The new Team Rocket would have been the same as always, but with a different leader who kindly offered his help and availability to Jessie whenever she would have needed it.

After all, she had Team Rocket's blood running through her veins.

The four of them left Team Rocket's Headquarters for the last time in their life.

Thirty minutes later they got to a cemetery.

They got off the car and saw a procession of people all dressed up in black.

Everybody was silently crying while the priest was speaking. Even Butch and Cassidy were there.

Jessie made her way alone toward her mother's grave. All the people in silence watched her as she put a single red rose on her mother's casket and knelt down for a second.

Then, she made her way back, where her friends were waiting for her. But she saw the figure of a woman staring at her. This time, the look on her face was peaceful, revealing a beautiful smile and bright blue eyes. She looked incredibly like Jessie.

"Thanks, mom. Thanks for everything. I love you," Jessie whispered in the wind. For a moment she thought she had heard something in response.

She saw her friends and smiled lightly to them.

"We can go now," she said. She took James's hand and held it tightly.

"Carpe diem…" James said to himself, smiling.