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Ash sighed, as two rockets and a Meowth jumped out at them. "Prepare for trouble!" the woman yelled.

"And make that double!" the man yelled.

"Jessie and James," Ash breathed, rolling his eyes, "They've recited their motto so many times that I know it by heart."

"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 to us now or prepare to fight."

"Meowth! Dat's right!" Meowth had jumped forward, in front of Jessie and James.

"Hand over Pikachu, twerp!" Jessie said. May looked at Ash questioningly. His expression had changed from boredom to anger within seconds.

"Pikachu is dead, you morons. Don't either of you know anything?" Ash snapped coldly, glaring at them. Jessie and James were silent, staring in shock at him. No matter how many times they bugged him, Ash had never taken such a tone of voice when speaking to them. James and Meowth seemed to have known not to mess around, unlike Jessie.

"Then what is that? A Raichu?" Jessie asked, looking at Amber, who had perched herself on Ash's head. He looked at the small mouse pokemon, who was glaring at Jessie.

"I think all that hairspray you've been using has affected your brain! This is Amber-a DIFFERENT pikachu."

"Yeah right. I bet that you are just saying that to protect your pokemon. Now hand Pikachu over!" Ash clenched his fist, shaking.

"Would you get over it? I don't have Pikachu!"

"But you have a Moltres." Two more people jumped out of the trees.

"Oh, great. Two more idiots," Ash said, rolling his eyes. Butch and Cassidy landed beside Meowth and James. "What do you two want?"

"We want your Moltres!" Cassidy reply. He looked at her questioningly.

"My Moltres? I don't have a Moltres!" he said calmly, causing Jessie and James to look at each other in shock.

"Yes, you do! We saw it last night!" Butch sneered. That caught Ash's attention immediantly. He looked at him, frowning.

"Really now? And how was that?" Cassidy elbowed him, glaring. Butch was caught between answering and having the wrath of Cassidy brought down on him.

"They were watching you," Jessie answered instead, blowing softly on her nails. They looked at her. Silence covered the area, before an explosion went off right where, Jessie, James, and Meowth were.

"LOOKS LIKE TEAM ROCKET IS BLASTING OFF AGAAAAAAIIIIIIIN!!!!!" they yelled, as they went flying through the air. Another explosion caused Butch and Cassidy to make a sudden exit, in the same fashion as Jessie and James had.

"What was that?" Ash asked, gently pushing May off. She had practically been attached to him. The dust and dirt settled around, as two forms were revealed. "Not again...its Team Magma. Lovely."

"You are on our territory!" one of them said. Ash looked irritated, but didn't say anything. He had stuck his hands into his pockets, frowning at the two strangers.

"And you think I care?" He suddenly whipped out a red and white pokeball, tossing it. Within seconds a large redish-orange dragon stood before him.

"Chaaaar!" Charizard growled.

"Fire Spin!" Ash ordered. Charizard opened his mouth wide, letting loose a blast of flame. While Charizard continued to use Fire Spin, Ash quickly looked around for a way to go. He spotter another path into the forest. "This way!..."

Ash grabbed May's wrist, and ran toward the entrance. Charizard stopped the attack, and followed. Team Magma followed, sprinting to catch up. "Amber use your thunderbolt attack!"

"Piiikaaaachuuuuu!" Amber squealed, electricity shooting out. Team Magma stopped to keep from being hit by Amber's attack. "Cha!"

When it was obvious that they had given up on chasing after them, Ash dropped down under a tree. May sat down next to him, Amber crawling onto her lap. "Well, being attacked by three sets of people isn't too bad..." she said.

Ash had hunched over, holding his face in his hands. "I have yet to figure out why I bother. Ever since I had my first pokemon, I've been having to fight against one team or another."

He sat back, staring up at the leaves. "If we start on right now, we might be able to get to the pokemon center by nightfall," he added, standing up.

"Let's go then," May replied, picking up Amber, who had wanted to run off. Amber gave a disappointed sigh, as they picked their way through the forest.

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Sadly, this is where I have to end it. XD I am having serious trouble thinking of ideas(erlack, this sucks) and I still have the other sequel I'm doing also. I hope you all enjoyed this fanfiction, and thank you to all who reviewed. I MIGHT do a short story that's the sequel to this-but no promises on that.