I'm glad you like it so far, here's chapter two! I don't own Pokemon except for my character and plot! Enjoy!

Chapter 2: Rocket Against Rocket

A month passed, Jessie (and Angelina) assumed that Cassidy and Butch had escaped, but had been recaptured and that normal service could be safely recommended. So more fiendish schemes were concocted and Pikachus' never-the-less remained at large.

Angelina kept an eye on Ash and friends; hanging with them a few times that she wasn't around Team Rocket.

It was a bright and beautiful morning, Angelina traveled far ahead of Ash and friends so she could secretly catch up with Team Rocket. She sat herself up in a tree on a sturdy tree branch, watching James and Meowth dig a pit-fall trap while Jessie stood watch also.

"Dig faster, James!" Jessie screeched, looking through her binoculars at the on-coming twerps. "They'll be here in five minutes."

"Maybe yous should stop yellin' an' start diggin' yourself, Jessie." Meowth advised.

"With nails like these?" Jessie pulled off her glove and stretched out her hand, wiggling her fingers.

"Whateva," the Pokemon muttered, annoyingly. Then he looked up, confused, "Where's Angel, why ain't she helpin'?"

"I'm the look-out, remember?" Angelina called, she wore her Rocket outfit; a black elbow-sleeved top with a large red 'R' on the front, a black skirt that stopped four inches above her knees, black knee-high boots, black fingerless grip-gloves, a black go-go cap, a black belt holding 5 red-and-white Pokeballs, and a silver chain around her neck with a minimized rhinestoned red-and-white Pokeball which held her Pichu.

Meowth glanced up toward the tree where the young girl sat; he narrowed his eyes and growled under his breath.

James panted and whined. "I'm tired, Jess. When do we eat?"

"When we get a check from the Boss for capturing a Pikachu." Jessie snapped.

"Okay, I tink dis is deep enough," Meowth said, and Jessie threw down a ladder down for him and James to climb up. They carefully spread a grid of twigs over the hole and then covered this with leaves, followed by soil, so it looked exactly like the rest of the road.

"Okay, hide!" Jessie exclaimed, alerted to a close proximity of twerps. Team Rocket ducked behind the trees while Angelina kept her balance on the tree branch and had a nice view of Ash and his friends walking down the path.

"Agh! Ash, will you ever shut up? So you won another gym badge, big deal!"

"You've never won a gym badge, Misty. You're just jealous! Did you see the way I got Squirtle to-"

"SHUT UP!" Misty screamed.

"Whoa, Misty just evolved into a Flareon!" Tracey laughed.

"Pikachu!" Pikachu sighed, fed up with all the sexual tension and wished Ash would just take the hint and get it together with Misty.

"What was that, Pikachu?" Ash asked.

"Pika, pika, pikachUUU-UUU!" the Pokemon replied, as the young trainers fell into a hole which suddenly appeared beneath them.

"Oh no. It's Team Rocket again. I'm getting pretty sick of this. Let's walk on the verge from now on, guys." Ash folded his arms and waited for Jessie and James to appear.

"To tell you the truth, it's the way they insist on doing that motto that bugs me." Misty brushed the dust off her Togepi.

"Good trap structure though," Tracey added, taking out his sketchpad.

"Prepare for trouble," Jessie exclaimed, jumping to the edge of the hole.

"Here we go…." Misty groaned.

"And make it double!" James stood back to back with Jessie.

"Can't they ever think of something new to say?"

"To protect the world from devastation…."

"I guess it's traditional or something." Ash shrugged.

"To unite all peoples within our nation…."

"Still, they could get new music to accompany it or something…." Misty offered.

"To denounce the evils of truth and love…."

"Or swap lines," Tracey pondered.

"To extend- right, that's it!" James interrupts. "You twerps take our motto seriously- no talking over it."

"Oh come on, Team Rocket…. You always say the same thing!" Ash whined.

"No, I mean it!" James folded his arms petulantly. "I can wait here all day until you're quiet."

"Okay, we're listening." Misty growled.

"Ahem. To extend our reach to the stars above."

"Jessie!"

"James!"

"Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light."

"Surrender now or prepare to-"

"Aghh! That's enough of murdering the motto!" screamed a familiar female voice, Cassidy and Butch leaped out of their hiding place.

"Butch! Cassidy!" said a very frightened Jessie and James in response.

Angelina stood her grounds, literally as she had to jump down from the tree. She knew Cassidy and Butch would show up sometime to confront Jessie and James.

"Surprised to see us? Well, we've been thinking about meeting up again for a very long time." Cassidy smiled. "We thought we'd come say hello, capture this Pikachu, as you seem to be so thoroughly incompetent that you can't even take a Pokemon from a twelve year old…. Oh, and get a little pay back for being put in jail."

Jessie and James instinctively grabbed each other for reassurance and whimpered. Angelina just stood by the tree, her expression indescribable while Meowth fled behind the young female Rocket and grabbed onto her leg for protection.

"Are they going to kill us, Jess?" James asked in a high, childish voice.

"Oh, we won't kill you." Butch smirked.

"No, we thought we'd rough you up a little…. Or a lot…. And drag you back to see the Boss- he's very anxious to know where you've been for the past three months." Cassidy explained.

"Aghh! Worse dan death!" Meowth exclaimed, tightening his grip on Angelina's leg, its claws sharply poking at her skin.

"So you're gonna let me watch this?" Angelina yelped.

"You look familiar, have we met before?" Cassidy asked, staring down the young Rocket. "I just hope the Boss hasn't ordered you to help them." she pointed an accusing finger at Jessie and James.

"I'm…. oh the heck with it!" Angelina threw off her go-go cap and revealed her long strawberry-blonde hair. "Look, you know who I am; and I am helping them! Gonna do something about it?"

"Maybe we will," Butch grinned, his dark eyes glittering maliciously.

Angelina growled and narrowed her eyes; even if she hated Team Rocket and agreed to help the police shut down the organization, she'd never let her friends get hurt, good or bad.

Jessie straightened herself and took up a valiant stance. "Well, you won't take us without a fight! Go Arbok!" she launched her Pokeball in the air.

"Go Weeezing!" James said in a monotone, not really expecting to win.

Cassidy laughed, "What pathetic Pokemon!" she paused, then turned to Butch and nodded.

"Do it, Gengar!" Butch shouted, throwing his Pokeball.

Angelina gasped as the Pokemon materialized on the road, then she realized what Pokemon had been stolen from her back on Mandarin Island. It was small, roundish and black, with spiky hair- it looked like it was the inbred cousin of a Jigglypuff with its idiotic grin.

"Oooh, a Gengar!" James was impressed and forgot the impending doom for a moment. Jessie's head snapped around to glare at him, and finding that this alone wasn't enough to break the spell, she delivered a sharp slap across the face.

"Arbok, Poison Sting!"

"Weezing, Sludge Attack!"

"Gengar, Confusion!"

Gengar's eyes turned red and he focused on Weezing and Arbok.

Arbok felt dizzy and with a cry of "Chaaarr!" fired poison needles where it thought Gengar stood, but hit Weezing.

Weezing tried to blind Gengar by spitting out thick oily muck, but hit Arbok.

The two dazed Pokemon proceeded to charge into each other and crashed to the ground. Jessie and James sighed and ordered their Pokemon to return to their Pokeballs.

"Go Lickitung," Jessie ordered flatly.

"Go Victreebel," James mumbled.

"Just do your best," Jessie covered her face with her hands.

"Mmm! Don't attack me!" came James' muffled voice as only his feet were visible, protruding from inside Victreebel. The Grass-Bell Pokemon spat him onto the dusty ground.

Butch and Cassidy were giggling with their hands over their mouths.

"How embarrassing!" Cassidy said, in a stage whisper to her partner.

With a cry of "Tung!", Lickitung rushed forward to defend the honor of its mistress. It punched Gengar hard in the face with its enormous tongue. Gengar reeled and enraged, retaliated with its own Lick Attack.

"Get'em, Sparkette!" Angelina threw out a Pokeball into the battle. "Thunderbolt!"

Angelina's Raichu appeared and unleashed a bolt of electricity upon Lickitung and Gengar.

"Hey, not mine!" Jessie yelled.

Angelina sweatdropped, "Oops, my bad!"

James very rarely had ideas, and had practical ones about as often as Ash washes; but bedraggled, humiliated and in the heat of battle as he was, he suddenly felt as if one of the gods had thrown an inspiration at him from the heavens. While Gengar was occupied with Lickitung and Raichu, James shouted, "Victreebel, Sleep Powder!"

Victreebel screeched and lifted up the leaf that covered its mouth. A golden glitter floated in a haze over Lickitung, Raichu, and Gengar.

The three Pokemon continued fighting as if in slow motion, and then sat contentedly on the ground, closing their eyes. With the impact of a small earthquake aftershock, they keeled over, snoring.

"WOOHOO!" James whipped out two Team Rocket fans from nowhere, and proceeded to do a victory dance.

Jessie, Meowth, and Angelina would have hugged James, but he was still covered in Victreebel's saliva.

"Woah, he beat us." Butch said in amazement to Cassidy, but he turned around to find that his partner was no longer there and now standing over the pitfall trap.

"Butch, Angel, James, Jessie, Meowth!" Cassidy shouted with urgency.

Everyone forgot the battle for a moment and ran over to the hole.

"The twerps are gone!" the six Rockets glared at each other accusingly.

"Well if you hadn't sprung out and battled us, we would've had that Pikachu!" Jessie was snarling at Cassidy.

"Oh of course you wouldn't have, Jess- I mean you've only been trying to capture it for two years now!"

"Shut up, Cassidy! You're just jealous because I've always been more beautiful!"

"Ha! That's a laugh- with that hair!"

"You can talk- it looks like you were shocked by a Pikachu!"

"At least I don't have that disgraceful excuse for a uniform. Some of us don't have to dress indecently to get attention…."

Butch and James trudged behind their respectful women, staring at the ground. Meowth had abandoned Jessie and James at the road, running off in the opposite direction shouting, "Uhh, I'll look for dem dis way!"

Angelina was offered to go along with Meowth, but she refused to stay back with the Rockets incase a real fight broke loose.

"Venonat!" called Cassidy's Venonat, which was used for tracking. It had been walking in front, its infa-red compound eyes scanning the forest.

"This way!" Cassidy said.

Jessie and James were harmless, that's why they were failed Pokemon poachers- the secret to success, as portrayed by Butch and Cassidy, is ruthlessness and malice.

"Found one!" Butch lifted up Tracey by the collar.

"Here's another!" Jessie grabbed Misty by the shoulder.

"Ooh! It's like hunting for Easter eggs!" James giggled girlishly.

"Last one." Cassidy discovered Ash behind a holly bush, clutching his Pikachu protectively.

The twerps were dragged, kicking and screaming, to the center of a clearing where they were lashed together with rope.

"I'll take that." Butch wrestled Pikachu from Ash's grip.

"Chuuuu!" Pikachu protested, thundershocking Butch.

Cassidy rescued her partner by opening a rubber bag for Butch to drop the Pokemon into.

Butch shuddered, his hair on end and smoking slightly. He growled and kicked the bag.

Ash yelled, "Hey, don't you kick my best friend!" and struggled uselessly, almost cutting off Tracey and Misty's circulation in the process.

Angelina had to remind herself over and over as she was beginning to get very annoyed, 'Good or bad, you never hurt you friends or their Pokemon.' Something like this made a plus sign of veins appear on her forehead, even though she should be a good Pokemon trainer and help Ash and friends.

"That's it!" Angelina yelled, fed up from her decision. She grabbed Ash by his shirt and lifted him up. "Listen, brat! You better shut you face right now or that Pokemon will be NOTHING when I'm through with it! Got that!"

Ash gulped and nodded, he and his friends were scared. Angelina dropped the tied-up trainers to the ground, then she turned sharply away and faced the Rockets staring her down in shock.

"The hell are you staring at! I should have a right in this, too!" Angelina spat, the Rockets gave way as she walked passed them.

"Right, anyway," Cassidy spoke through the stiffened silence. "We'll be taking Pikachu to the Boss. Since you helped us, we'll forget about the past." She nodded at Jessie and James.

"No way- we're coming with you. You're not claiming all the credits!" Jessie defied adamantly.

Cassidy and Jessie bickered with one another for fifteen minutes, James and Angelina sweatdropped embarrassingly and wondered why Meowth wasn't here to scratch the crap out of them, and Butch was annoyed as hell.

"Enough! Cassidy, just let them come with us, would you?" Butch shouted, a plus-sign of veins appeared on his forehead. One woman was bad enough, rival woman made his temples throb.

"Buuuutch!" Cassidy whined.

"Ya know what!" Angelina interrupted, also annoyed and snatching away the bag holding Pikachu. "Just to settle this argument, maybe I should take charge before I kill the Pokemon and no one gets credit."

Cassidy and Jessie looked murderous, but Butch placed a protecting hand on Angelina's shoulder and warned, "She's got a point, maybe this will keep everyone quiet for once."

§To Be Continued§

Oow! Getting any better? Well, a lot happens, so let me know what you think! Thanks, and chapter 3 is on its way!