'Combusken! Use ember!' May yelled.

Combusken used its ember attack, but Grougre blew it out as if it were a candle on a birthday cake. It then whipped Combusken with its tail and the battle was over.

'Well? Anybody else want to challenge my pokemon?'

'Ahahahahaha!' they heard voices from the sky.

'Oh no! It's Team Rocket!' Ash yelled, 'what do you three want?'

'Ahahahaha. Prepare for trouble, cos we're up for stealing!'

'Make it double, it beats wheeling and dealing!'

'To protect the world from devastation.'

'To unite all peoples within our nation.'

'To denounce the evils of truth and love.'

'To extend our reach to the stars above.'

'Jessie!'

'James!'

'Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light.'

'Surrender now or prepare to fight.'

'Meowth, dat's right.'

'You know that routine's getting old?' Ash argued.

'Shut up, twerp, we're not here to talk to you,' yelled Jessie.

'We want to capture that red pokemon. It's very impressive,' James added.

'Big Red! You know what to do,' said Case, calmly.

Grougre's eyes lit up once again, but this time, there was a glowing ball coming from inside his mouth. Every second it would grow bigger and bigger until eventually it blasted out of its mouth and directly at Team Rocket's balloon. The blast was so powerful that it knocked all three rockets in different directions.

'Team Rocket's blasting off separately!' they screamed.

'We won't be seeing them for a while,' Case started, 'Grougre's hyper beam is far stronger than any other pokemon's.'

'Wow. No wonder you're so good in battle. You have a strong pokemon. You're good in battle because you have a strong pokemon...' Ash continued.

May, Max, Misty and Case just looked at him with raised eyebrows as he continued blabbing on about nothing.

'Aww. That hurt,' James complained, 'I don't think I've ever been in this much pain before.'

He felt his pants to see if any bottle caps had fallen out of his pocket. He was glad to feel that all of them remained just where he'd left them.

He lay back and relaxed while looking at the sky, 'I wonder what happened to Meowth and Jessie?'

Meanwhile, in another neck of the woods...

'AAAAAAHHHH!!!' screamed Meowth.

CRASH!!! He had landed so hard on the ground that he could hardly move, 'I knew dis was a bad idea. I told dem numbskulls we wouldn't be able ta catch dat powerful pokemon, but noooo, dey had ta go on wit it anyway!'

'Wheeeee!' Jessie squealed as she let her parachute expand, 'James and Meowth are so stupid. I told them to pack a parachute!'

She came to a soft landing in what appeared to be a clearing in the woods, 'Ah. No harm done.'

She detached the parachute from herself and started to fold it up. When she had finished, she got up and was startled to see a woman with long, shiny, purple hair behind her, 'Who are you and what are you doing on my property?' the woman asked.

'Prepare for trouble!' Jessie started. She waited for James to continue the motto, '...oh yeah, he's not here...'

The woman looked at the red R on her shirt, 'Oh, you're a Team Rocket member? What do you want from me?' she asked in a not-so-caring voice.

Jessie thought that she could try and steal the woman's pokemon, but then she noticed something familiar about the woman. She felt like they had met before. 'I'm here to take every single pokemon you have,' she said, uneasily.

'I'd like to see you try,' she started.

'Seviper...' Jessie started. She didn't continue what she was saying, but instead, she stared at the woman. It finally clicked in her memory, 'Mom?'

'Jessie?' she replied.

'Is it really you?' Jessie asked in astonishment.

'Oh! Jessie!' she cried, while running up to hug her, 'I've missed you so much, my little girl.'

'I missed you too, Mommy Wommy!'

Back with the twerps'...

Ash couldn't believe the strength of Grougre, 'I can't believe how much strength that pokemon has!' he said, 'Say, Case, you wouldn't wanna trade that pokemon for one of mine would you?'

'Let's go, Misty. This brat's wasting my time,' Case growled while returning his pokemon to its poke ball.

They started walking off, 'hey, wait!' Ash yelled, 'I have a Grovyle! I have a Torkoal! I'll even be generous and give you both! C'mon, Case, that's being really generous! What if I throw in Pikachu?'

Pikachu got a worried look on its face, 'Pika?'

Misty and Case were almost out of sight.

'Case?' Ash called, pathetically, 'Are we going to trade? Hellooo?'

'Ash, for some reason I don't think he's going to trade with you..' May announced.

'Nonsense! Case and I were just discussing the conditions!' Ash lied.

Everybody collapsed.