As the crowd in the Skyhigh Café panicked about the fainted boy, Ash's waitress slipped out of the backdoor accompanied by one of the cooks. She turned to the cook.
"Well that went well, didn't it Butch?" she said. She wiped the lipstick off and smiled. Butch smiled too as he took of his apron and wig.
"It was perfect Cassidy," he said in a raspy voice to the waitress. Cassidy was now taking off her own wig.
"I think that I did get those two something special," she said and gave a cruel laugh. "What did you do with the vial?"
"It is currently being ground to dust in the restaurant trash compactor," Butch said as he pulled off fake fingerprints. Cassidy did the same. They reached the service lift. They got on and pressed for the ground floor. After they were halfway down, Butch hit the Emergency Stop button and the lift shuddered to a halt. Cassidy opened the top access and yanked down the duffel they had hidden there earlier. They disrobed and changed into the cloths they had in the duffel. They finished taking off some minor parts of their disguises before shoving everything into the duffel and closing it up. Cassidy picked up the duffel and slung the strap over her shoulder. Butch hit the Emergency Stop button again and they continued down to the ground floor. When the lift stopped at ground level, they stepped out to see medical personnel and police running into the public elevator next to them. They left the lobby and walked to their hotel.
When they reached their room, Butch threw open the door and they entered. Cassidy smiled at Butch and they exploded into fits of laughter. Cassidy dropped the duffel and leapt into Butch's arms. She wrapped her arms around Butch's neck and kissed him for a well-done crime. They opened a bottle of champagne and continued to celebrate the imminent death of their victim.
Misty, Brock, and Pikachu waited outside the emergency room for over an hour. One of the doctors came out and they all rushed him. "Is he ok? What happened? Is it curable?" they all asked. The doctor said, "It was poisoning. Some kind of mutated cross between many different types of poison powder. We've given him as much of all the vaccines that we dare. We currently have him stabilized but…" the doctor trailed off.
"Doctor," Misty said in a very choked voice, "Will he die?" The doctor averted his gaze.
"Yes."
"How soon?"
"Unless we can find a proper antidote," the doctor swallowed, "three days, a week tops." Misty clasped her hands over her mouth and sank to her knees. "We've asked every chemist that we know to help. We even called Professor Oak but he doesn't know if he'll be able to come up with a vaccine in time. I'm sorry, we're doing all we can," the doctor said. A nurse burst out of the Emergency Room and a lot of noise followed.
"Doctor, he's starting convulsions!" the nurse said, panicked. The doctor rushed into the Emergency Room and they only caught a glimpse of Ash writhing on the operating table before the doors closed.
"I'm going to call Ash's mother," Brock said to Misty before he walked over to the phones. Misty didn't move until Brock came back fifteen minutes later.
"She didn't take it too well. She was devastated," Brock told Misty after he finished the phone call.
"Come on let's go to the hotel, there is nothing we can do here." Misty let Brock drag her out of the hospital and let Ash slip away, out of her fingers.
Misty lay awake that night, unable to sleep. She thought about Ash and the way he was convulsing on that operating table. He looked like he was in so much pain; and she felt that pain. She got up and decided to visit Ash in the hospital if she could. She stepped outside her room and was about to walk to the elevator when she stumbled on the newspaper. The front-page shocked her. There was a picture of Ash and the headline said YOUNG BOY VICTIM OF ATTEMPTED MURDER. It was not until then that she realized that someone had definitely planted the poison to kill Ash. She only knew of one team that would ever stoop so low to catch pikachu. Team Rocket. She could also think of only one place where Team Rocket would be hiding. When Misty reached the elevator, she knew exactly what she had to do.