To the Reviewers:

Kgmck-117-I don't have anything like that involving Deoxys in my current plans, but then I didn't have half the stuff I put in the fic in my plans either. I had something similar to that in mind, but that idea might work better, so if I do use it thanks in advance.

Ri2-I thought you'd like that part . I concider myself a pokeshipper as well so it was only a matter of time before something like that happened. I don't care if the Mew thing is Cliché as long as it advances the plot the way I want it to go. Why shouldn't the Rockets copy Jessie and James? Their the best…(can't keep straight face).

The Heir of Seth-Thanks for the compliment and who says Mew WILL get her memory back?

Cdfe88-Yes Mew is desperate. She is the last of her kind and wants to preserve her species. She didn't use a normal Transform attack. In my view Mews are much better than Ditto so they can hold a form as long as they want. Since she doesn't remember that she is a transformed Mew she'll stay in Pikachu form until she does. I suppose that the baby would be a Pichu, of course Mew was going to turn back to normal right before the 'crucial' moment of course ;).

Antithesis-1. Yes she does honest to Ho-Oh. 2. Yes I have and I hope he updates that fic soon.

Thebenjamin-That might have worked if you put a few lines in between the actual statement and the "Sike!" I almost believed you anyway though. The Mew situation should turn out to be pretty interesting and Ash and Misty have always had anger issues. The Rockets didn't hear the part about her masquerading and the other trainers didn't hear much because as soon as the argument got loud Team Rocket showed up. Technically they thought they were alone when they were kissing. Pikachu decided to be a peeping chu that's all.

Riika-I don't care if you don't review every chapter as long as you do at least once in a while. That's not a silly question, at least I don't think so. I imagine her hair is red like it is naturally though, unless she was dreaming about being Aquaria then its probably black.

Okay enough for the responses Here's your next chapter…

Trainer's Forest

Jessie, James and Meowth sat in front of the remnants of their balloon. They had flown quite a long distance in their destroyed vehicle. Now they were in the middle of a forest and only had a vague idea as to where they were.

"What's north of where we were?" Asked James

"Well there's Orre, Kanto and Johto." Said Jessie "Orre is a giant desert, so we must be in Kanto or Johto."

"Which one?" Asked Meowth.

His answer came in the form of several Spinarak and a few Ariados converging on their position.

"Are Ariados native to Kanto?" Asked James nervously

"No, you usually only find them in Johto if their wild." Said Jesse slowly backing away from the approaching pokemon. "Nice spiders, good spiders." She said trying to calm the angry looking bugs.

"So we have some new challengers. " Said a highly confident male voice. There was a rustling in the trees above the rockets and several people of varying types jumped down in front of them. There were several bug catchers, who went over and started petting the Spinarak, Some people dressed in ninja uniforms, a few creepy looking kids who seemed to blend in with surroundings and a psychic or two. The man that spoke was wearing an orange windbreaker and mesh pants which had a white stripe going down the leg. Under his jacket he wore a white T-Shirt and atop his head he sported greenish-blonde hair. He radiated cockiness and spun a pokeball around on his index finger. "As leader of Trainer's Forest, I, Cool Trainer Tai challenge you to a battle."

"We're kind of busy right now." Said James

"Yes, we don't have time to play with you kids." Said Jessie mockingly "No run along little boy, I think I hear your mommy calling."

"You will accept." Said Tai "Or else."

"Or else what!" Asked Meowth defiantly "Yous guys got nuttin' on us."

"Yeah." Agreed Jessie and James

"Ariados, Disable" Ordered Tai. The long leg pokemon's eyes began to glow and a yellow aura surrounded the Rockets "Now, do you accept?"

"We've been through worse." Said Meowth

"Meowth what are you doing!" Yelled Jessie

"QUIET HUMAN!" Yelled Meowth in a strangely distorted voice "What the hell?" He asked back in his normal voice.

"Well since your freaky, demonic cat-thing declined…" Said Tai "Ariados Signal Beam!" Ariados opened its mandibles and gathered a green energy beam between them. He launched the beam at the paralyzed Rockets and sent them flying once again into the horizon.

"Looks like we're blasting off again!" Cried Jessie and James

"SPILL THE BLOOD OF THE INOCENT!" Shouted Meowth in a demonic voice again. "Why do I keep doing that?"

Just outside of the forest Ash and Misty, now masquerading as Aquaria again, approached the woods with the pokemon. Electra and Pikachu were still riding on Ash's shoulders having an occasional conversation while Dawn and Mune walked behind them.

"You seem to be feeling a lot better." Said Ash to the female Pikachu

("My head still hurts some and I can't remember anything about myself.") She said ("But other then that I feel fine.")

"Well if it hurts to think then don't." Said Ash

"Bad idea." Said Misty "If you do that you'll end up just like Ash here."

"Hey!" Protested Ash "I am not that dumb."

"Oh so you admit that you are dumb though." Teased Misty

"I give up." Said Ash "I'm only going to dig myself deeper if I keep talking."

("Wow you actually made a smart decision for once.") Marveled Pikachu

"Don't worry about it Ash." Said Misty "We all can't be geniuses. I love you just the way you are. Missing brain cells and everything." She pecked him on the cheek but the expression on his face was still sour.

"I am not as dense as everyone thinks I am." Said Ash "I'll prove it." He looked at the map in his hands, which after a year of being on his own he'd finally learned to hold right, and found that if they cut through the forest they'd reach Mahogany town in half the time. "If we cut through this forest we can get there in a day instead of two."

"I am not going in there." Said Misty

"Why not?" Asked Ash

"Forests are full of bugs Ash." She pointed out "I HATE bugs!"

"Oh come on." Said Ash "You've been around a lot of bugs, I even have Heracross with me and you aren't scared of him."

"I didn't say I was scared." Said Misty "I said I HATE BUGS!"

"Hey no need to yell." Said Ash "I'm sure there aren't to many bugs in that forest and besides you've gone through plenty of forests and they all had bugs in them too."

She couldn't counter that argument. She had gone through a lot of forests but for some reason she got a bad feeling about this one.

("Why'd we stop?") Asked Mune who had finally caught up with the group.

"We're trying to decide weather or not to take a short cut." Explained Ash

("So what's the problem?") Asked Mune ("If its shorter I'm all for it.")

(I don't see why not either.") Said Dawn ("It's not exactly pleasant out here.") She was referring to the fact that a mist seemed to be in the air and it was a bit on the chilly side. Even though she had fur all over it was still uncomfortable.

("I don't care either way.") Said Pikachu. He actually wanted to go the long way so that he could get to know Electra better. They still planned to leave her at the Pokemon Center so that she could be looked at properly.

"Looks like majority rules Mist." Said Ash "Don't worry I have Quilava so if any bugs do come near us he can take care of them."

"Fine." Said Misty. She still had a bad feeling about doing this, but couldn't figure out why.

They turned off the path and headed into the forest. They would soon learn that it would have been far more productive to have stayed on the path.

"The nerve of that moron!" Screamed Jessie "He can't treat the notorious Team Rocket like this!"

"Well it looks like he did." Said James

"Quiet you!" Snapped Jessie as she pounded James on top of the head with her fist. "We're going to get revenge on all those wannabe trainers."

"How we gonna do dat Jessie?" Asked Meowth "TERROR, PAIN, DESTRUCTION!" He burst out. "I think that guy was in my head too long."

"Well he did seem to radiate pure evil." Said James still rubbing the lump on his head. "His evilness probably saturated into your body and makes you say evil things."

"As long as I don't get possessed again I think I can live wit' it." Said Meowth "BABIES TASTE LIKE SWEET NECTAR!" He said demonically "As long as it doesn't happen in public anyway.

They suddenly heard some voices coming from behind some trees. There were three of them and they seemed to be arguing about something.

"When did that punk get a Lugia?" Asked one, a gruff male voice.

"I don't know homes." Said a Latino male voice. "I thought he had an Entei like the memo said. And who was that chick with him anyway?"

"That wasn't the same punk we fought in Mahogany Town." Said yet another male voice, this one was deep and seemed to command some kind of authority. "They're similar, but that Pikachu of his didn't have a stupid nick name and thinking back he did look a little different."

"Pikachu?" Asked the Rockets together

"So what are we gonna do about him?" Asked the gruff voiced man.

"Well, I was studying the tactics of those Elite Rockets again…" Began the deep voice. "They had a motto that was different from ours, but based on the footage I saw their motto always caused people to run or hang their head in fear." What he didn't know was that the footage he'd seen was from an early attempt from Jessie, James and Meowth to steal some pokemon from a pokemon center in Celadon. The reason why the people ran or slumped to the ground was because that particular day Team Rocket had been going around saying that motto HUNDREDS of times. By the time they got to the Pokemon Center the people couldn't stand to hear it anymore.

"How'd the motto go anyway?" Asked the Latino voice.

"I think it went…" Began the deep voice.

"Prepare for Trouble." Said Jessie as she jumped out of their hiding place.

"Make it Double." Said James jumping out to join his partner.

"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 blasts off at the speed of light."

"Surrender now or prepare to fight, fight, fight, fight."

"Meowth dat's-," Started Meowth jumping in front of Jessie and James "MURDER IS THE FUEL THAT DRIVES ME!" He then continued as if that hadn't happened "-right!"

"Yeah it went like that." Said the deep voice. They could see it belonged to a younger member of Team Rocket. He sported brown hair and blue eyes and wore a normal grunts uniform.

"Hey you guys are Elite Rockets." Said the Latino spotting the white uniforms.

"You could say that…" Said James. In truth they'd lost their rank long ago and were now the lowest ranking members of the entire organization.

"Did we overhear you correctly?" Asked Jessie "You're looking for a punk with a Pikachu?"

"That's right." Said the brown-haired man. "Actually we've run into two of them and they both have legendary pokemon."

"Really…" Said Jessie "Which ones?"

"The first one we fought has an Entei." Said the gruff voice. It belonged to a taller man with blonde hair and brown eyes. "The one we fought yesterday has a Lugia, although its smaller than I thought it was supposed to be."

Silver. Thought Meowth They must have run into Ash yesterday. So that means that he's alright and so are Dawn and Mune. He felt relief wash over him now that he knew his friends were alright. They are not your friends, they are your enemies. Countered a darker thought They must pay for abandoning you in Sootopolis and letting you get possessed by that monster. Meowth was slowly starting to be convinced by his now magnified dark-side. Yeah I gotta make 'em pay! "I gots a plan guys." He said and turned to his teammates "We're gonna show you rookies how its done."

They hadn't even been walking for five minutes before a bush suddenly turned into a short boy with closely cut hair wearing a dark blue uniform and holding out two pokeballs came bounding over to them. "I am Ninja Boy Chris!" He shouted "I challenge you to a 2-on-2 pokemon battle!" He pointed to Ash

"I'm in a hurry kid." Said Ash "I don't really have time for games."

The boy ignored him and released a Hitmontop. "You will battle." Said Chris "That's the rules in Trainer's Forest."

"Trainer's Forest?" Asked Ash confused

"No more questions." Said Chris "Release your pokemon!"

"No." Said Ash "I don't feel like battling right now."

"Stop being so stubborn and just cream the little punk so we can go." Said Misty exasperated

"If you say so." Said Ash "Mune, you feel like a battle?"

("Sure.") Said the Espeon ("I'll take that freaky-looking mutated top down!")

("What did you call me?") Asked the Hitmontop.

("You heard me.") Said Mune

"Let the battle begin!" Said Chris "Hitmontop Rapid Spin and Triple Kick!"

"Mune just blast it with a Psychic and let's go." Said Ash wanting to get this battle over with.

Mune complied and caught Hitmontop with a Psychic attack, He picked the spinning pokemon up and slammed it repeatedly into a nearby tree until it was knocked out.

"Hitmontop!" Cried Chris "You'll pay for that. Hitmontop Return!" A red beam of light caught the dazed Hitmontop and recalled him to his ball. "Go Meditite!" A small pokemon which a blue body and grayish-brown head appeared from the pokeball. It had its head lowered and its feet were hovering off the ground pressed together. Its hands were also pressed together as if it were preying.

"What is that!" Asked Misty. She'd never seen a Meditite before so had no idea what to expect.

"All I know is that it's a fighting/psychic type." Said Ash "That means Mune still has an advantage."

"We'll see about that." Said Chris "Meditite use Meditate."

"Mune use Calm Mind." Said Ash

The two pokemon began to concentrate and both were surrounded by auras due to their increasing power. Mune stopped first and without being told he used a Confusion attack in an attempt to catch the Meditite off guard. The mediate pokemon didn't flinch however, and countered with his own Confusion. A battle of the minds ensued. Mune pushed with all his mental might trying to reverse the momentum of the attack. Meditite was doing the same thing and both pokemon were at a stalemate.

"Mune forget the Confusion and just use a Quick Attack to finish him off." Said Ash

"Meditite use Reflect fast!" Countered Chris

That was exactly what Ash wanted him to do. Meditite weren't good at concentrating on two things at once, so before Mune even broke the Confusion attack Meditite started to form a reflect. Since Mune was still pushing with his attack Meditite was hit with the force of two Confusion attacks and was sent flying into its trainer.

Chris shakily got to his feet and returned Meditite. "Man." He whined "Now I owe you all my money."

"I thought it was only half your money when you loose a battle." Said Misty

"Trainer's Forest rules." Said Chris "All participants in battles have to give away ALL their money."

"Who makes these rules?" Asked Ash "And what happens if a trainer refuses to pay all his money."

"The enforcers come out and make them." Said Chris "And you DON'T want to get on their bad side."

"They can't be worse than some other people I'm on the bad side of." Said Ash "What's the fastest way out of here anyway?"

"If you're going to Mahogany Town, and based on what I heard while I was spying on you, you are." Said Chris "Then go northwest from here. Watch out though because there are a lot of trainers that way."

"I think we can handle it." Said Ash

"Before I forget…" Said Chris. He walked over to Ash and handed him a huge wad of money. "That's your winnings from the battle. Enjoy it though because by the time you get out of here you're going to be broke." He threw something on the ground and in a flash of smoke he was gone.

"Well, that was weird." Said Ash "Hey Pikachu you think you're ready for some battles?" He waited for an answer. "Pikachu." Ash looked around and spotted the mouse talking to Electra in private. He walked over and caught the tail end of the conversation.

("…and then the idiot comes into the Gym dressed up like some girl.") Said Pikachu ("I knew it was him right off because he still didn't want to put on any of the perfume so he smelled the same. The fact that he called himself Ashley was a big giveaway too.")

"Pikachu!" Yelled Ash "You said you'd never mention that again!"

("Ash!") Said Pikachu jumping in surprise. ("I was just making conversation.") He said sheepishly

("Did you really dress up like a girl?") Asked Electra ("Just to get a Gym Badge?")

By this time everyone in the group had come over and heard the question. "Yeah, Ashley here was desperate." Joked Misty, much to Ash's distaste. "He didn't even beat Erika to get the Rainbow Badge."

"I was gonna win." Said Ash lamely "Charmander was on a roll. If Team Rocket hadn't interfered, like they did in almost all my Gym Battles, I would have one fair and square."

("So how did you get the Badge then?") Asked Dawn

"I saved her Gloom from the fire." Said Ash "She said I was going to win anyway and that since I saved her Gloom I deserved the badge."

("You must really care about pokemon if you risked your life to save one that wasn't even yours.") Said Electra

("He's done it a bunch of times.") Said Pikachu ("He saved me on our first day together from a flock a Spearow.")

"Even though he's the one that provoked the whole flock." Added Misty

"If someone hadn't been such an ass and shocked the Pidgey I wanted to catch." Said Ash "I would have never thrown the rock at the Spearow."

("Don't try to shift the blame to me.") Said Pikachu ("I told you it was a Spearow and you did it anyway. It's not my fault you couldn't understand me then.")

"Okay enough of bringing up my past." Said Ash "Let's just get out of this weird forest."

"So you got beaten?" Asked Tai to the Ninja Boy who had just made a report.

"Yes that trainer has some pretty strong pokemon." Said Chris "He doesn't want to battle so I told him the usual story about the enforcers."

"Good." Said Tai "Did you send him toward the strong trainers?" He asked

"Yep." Answered Chris "He's headed toward the Hikers and Bug Catchers and after that he should run into the double battle area."

"Good, once he goes through all those trainers I don't think any of his pokemon will stand a chance against me." Said Tai "I'm gonna make a ton of money off this guy!"

After walking about another fifteen minutes A guy with a big back pack and a new came running out of nowhere. "I'm Bug Maniac Ken and I challenge you to a 3-on-3 battle!" He shouted

"Bug Maniac!" Asked Misty queasily.

"That's right bugs." Said Ken "Since you don't like bugs I think I'll challenge you."

"I'll beat you and your creepy bugs." Said Misty, Ever since she rejoined Ash and reconciled with him her confidence seemed to have returned. "Go Gyarados!"

"G-Gyarados?" Stuttered Ken

Gyarados came out of his Great Ball and roared at the petrified bug trainer. Ken nervously reached into his pocket and pulled out a pokeball. "Go Sirskit!"

The tiny water-bug came out of its ball and looked at the towering form of Gyarados. Instinctively Gyarados used Glare and the small bug was paralyzed with fear, and so was its trainer.

"S-sirskit use water gun." He stuttered

"Gyarados Aerial Ace!" Ordered Misty.

Gyarados simply flew into the air a foot or so and then sent itself flying into Sirskit. The little bug didn't stand a chance and was instantly knocked out.

"Look I give up, just take the money!" Said Ken once he recalled Sirskit. He threw a nice wad of money at Misty and she caught it. Then he took off running, desperate to get far away from the scary Gyarados.

("What's his problem?") Asked Gyarados

("You scared the shit out of him.") Said Pikachu

"Hey watch your mouth Pikachu." Said Ash

("I was being literal.") Said Pikachu ("Look.") He pointed to a series of small brown lumps that were spaced out in the direction Ken had gone.

"I think we should not go that way." Said Ash "Watch your step anyway. Don't want to get that stuck to your shoe, or paws."

"Wouldn't now be the perfect time to attack?" Asked Mitch

"No, wait until their weak." Said Jessie "Once they've gone through all the battles in the forest then we attack."

"This is a brilliant plan Meowth." Said James

"LET FEAR CONSUME YOUR SOUL" Said demonic Meowth "Yeah I know" He said normally.

"You know that really freaks me out man." Whimpered Carlos "Anyone got any holy water?"

"Won't work." Said Reece "He's not possessed from what I gather, he's just been seeded with evil."

"It's still freaky." Said Carlos

The group continued walking and about every ten or so minutes they would run into a battle. There were all kinds of trainers, Psychics, Black Belts, a few Hikers and even a Cool Trainer of two. Mostly however they ran into Mediums and Bug Catchers. Ash and Misty took turns battling and soon most of their pokemon were tired. For some reason Ash couldn't transfer any pokemon so he was stuck with the party he'd left Ecruteak with. This party being formed by Pikachu, Swellow, Heracross, Quilava, Onix and Silver. Thankfully the poke'dex didn't count Dawn and Mune as being in the party since Ash didn't have pokeballs for them. They were registered as belonging to him, but not registered for League Battles.

"How long does this forest go on?" Moaned Misty

"I think we're almost out." Said Ash

Suddenly the roaring of a motorcycle could be heard and out of nowhere came a guy on a motor bike wearing the typical clothing of a biker. "I challenge you to a 2-on-2 battle." He said "I'm Josh and you're my next victim."

Before they could even protest a girl dressed in a red ninja uniform jumped down form a tree. "This one is mine." She said "I Sonya challenge you to a 2-on-2 battle."

Ignoring the fact that a battle had already been declared Sonya through out a pokeball revealing a Machoke. Now ignoring the fact that a pokemon had already been released Josh also released an Electabuzz.

"What now?" Asked Ash

"Well they both want to battle so we give them one." Said Misty

"Go Onix!" Called Ash as he threw the Ultra Ball containing the fearsome rock-serpent.

"Go-," Started Misty, Unfortunately for her Psyduck came out instead of Staryu who she had been planning to call. "Psyduck what have I told you about coming out of your ball?"

("Huh?") Asked Psyduck in his usual oblivious manner.

Before she could amend her choice the battle began. "Electabuzz use Thunder Punch on that duck!" Ordered Josh

"Machoke use Low Kick on the Onix!" Ordered Sonya.

"Onix go underground!" Ordered Ash

("No.") Said Onix

"What?" Asked Ash

("You'll see.") Said Onix. Ash just shrugged and let the serpent do what he wanted.

"Psyduck…" Trailed Misty. She really didn't know what to tell the duck. Then she got a brain storm. "Hit your head against Onix."

("Okay.") Said Psyduck. He waddled over to Onix inadvertently dodging the Thunder Punch and hit his head against the rock pokemon. An intense pain went through the ducks head and his eyes started to glow blue. Meanwhile Machoke went into a baseball slide and was about to deliver a devastating kick to Onix's underbelly. Unfortunately for the superpower pokemon Onix simply brought his full weight, which was about 1000 pounds since he was much larger than a normal Onix, and crushed him with a powerful Body Slam.

"Machoke return." Said Sonya "Go Poliwrath!" Her Poliwrath came out of its pokeball and looked around threateningly.

"Electabuzz, hit that damn duck!" Called Josh

"Psyduck Confusion!" Ordered Misty. In the duck's state of pain Misty knew he'd be able to do the attack. She was right because Psyduck channeled his latent psychic energies and hit Electabuzz with the attack. The electric pokemon wobbled on its feet for a minute before trying to hit Psyduck again with a Thunder Punch. However, what he thought was Psyduck was actually Poliwrath. The tadpole pokemon dodged the attack and smacked Electabuzz with a Double Slap combo. Electabuzz was taken out of the battle after the punishment it had received.

"Go Koffing!" Called the biker. A gaseous blob with a skull and crossbones below its mouth came out of the ball. It was purple and emitted yellow and green vapor. "Sludge Bomb that duck!"

"Poliwrath Hydro Pump!" Called Sonya.

"Onix you might want to dig now." Said Ash

("I can take a little-,") He was knocked out when the powerful water blast slammed into him he teetered on the spot for a moment and started falling towards Ash. Ash quickly returned him to his pokeball before he was crushed under the serpent's immense weight. "Pikachu you're up." Said Ash

("…but not an ordinary Pikachu.") Said Pikachu still flirting with Electra ("My Thunder Attack can take down a hundred Charizard in one use.")

("Your attack isn't that strong.") Said Electra unimpressed

"Pikachu I said get over here!" Yelled Ash

("Huh?") Asked the mouse who had once again been oblivious to the battle. ("Oh, coming Ash!") He bounded over and landed beside the frantic Psyduck who was trying to avoid the Sludge Bombs. ("I'll prove it!") He called to Electra. ("Ash let me do this one on my own.") He told his trainer.

"If you say so Pikachu." Said Ash "But if you loose this battle you also loose ALL my money and that means no more fancy ketchup with your poke'chow."

("I bet you can't win without using any electric attacks.") Called Electra. She wanted to see Pikachu put his money where his mouth was. He kept talking about how strong a pokemon he was and how much damage he could do, so she wanted him to prove it.

("You're on.") Said Pikachu

"Psyduck use Disable!" Said Misty when she saw Koffing tiring.

"Poliwrath use Ice Beam to freeze that little shrimp!" Called Sonya

Psyduck's eyes started to glow yellow and a yellow aura surrounded Koffing. Now the poison gas pokemon couldn't use his poison attacks so he resorted to physical moves. Meanwhile Pikachu barely dodged the Ice Beam and was trying to come up with a strategy. He thought back to his private training in Charicific Valley and came up with a move to use. He started to run around as if he were about to use Double Team and everyone thought that's what he was doing. His image split into two and instead of continuing to divide it stopped there. The two Pikahcus ran toward Poliwrath. One was using Quick attack and the Other was using Agility. The first Pikachu slammed into Poliwrath hard and the tadpole pokemon was knocked of its feet. That Pikachu faded away and the other one leapt into the air and came down with a devastating Iron Tail which smacked Poliwrath right between the eyes. The pokemon could take no more and collapsed on the spot.

"Poliwhirl!" Cried Sonya "Return." She said dejectedly. "If you loose we both have to pay these losers all our cash."

"I got it." Said Josh. "Koffing use Explosion!"

"You idiot!" Yelled Sonya "Even if you knock both of them out you still loose because he's your last pokemon!"

"Oops." He said

Pikachu tried to move out of the way but the blast hit him and the poison gasses it released got into his system. Psyduck on the other hand just stood there. His headache had ended shortly after using Disable and now he was literally a sitting duck. The blast hit him as well and sent him hurling into a tree, head first. Misty tried to run and catch her pokemon but she wasn't fast enough. The force of the impact caused the tree to split and Psyduck continued flying through the air. The two defeated trainers handed over their money to Ash and walked off. Meanwhile Misty and the others chased after Psyduck. The duck finally came to stop when he hit the ground in front of a particularly thick pine tree. Misty ran over to him and picked him up. He was holding his head and moaning obviously in great pain.

"Psyduck are you okay?" She asked concerned.

("Ohhh.") He moaned. This headache was so bad he couldn't even string a sentence together, not that he could normally anyway.

"Take a rest in your ball." Said Misty. She was about to return her pokemon when a group of bug catchers suddenly descended out of the tree tops on what looked like spider webs. What really bothered Misty though were the Spinarak and the single Ariados who accompanied the trainers. The Spinarak slowly advanced on Misty and she couldn't help but let out a scream.

Ash, who had scooped up the downed Pikachu, heard the scream and ran as fast as he could to see what was wrong with Misty. He arrived to see her surrounded by bug pokemon and it didn't take him long to figure out what was wrong. "Hey leave her alone1" He called to the trainers. One of them, who was wearing all orange and had greenish-blonde hair turned around to see Ash.

"You're the one whose been beating all the trainers today." Said the trainer. "I'm Tai and you and/or your girlfriend here is going to battle me."

"Hey man all my pokemon are tired from battling today." Said Ash "The sun is setting and I really want to get out of here." His only pokemon that wasn't tired was Silver and he was on reserve for emergencies. Mune had battled himself tired and Ash wasn't about to try and force Dawn or Electra to battle. Misty was in the same boat with only Suicune at her disposal.

"Either battle of forfeit." Said Tai "A wimpy trainer like you doesn't stand a chance against me anyway."

"That's it." Said Ash "I was trying to be nice and not pound you into the ground, but you leave me no choice." He pulled out Silver's pokeball and tossed it into the air. "Silver let's go!"

From their hiding spot Team Rocket looked on in awe. All were surprised, except for Meowth who'd seen the Lugia several times.

"He really does have a Lugia." Said James

"Let's let that trainer wear it down and then we make our move." Said Jessie

Ash stood ready and waiting for Tai to choose his first pokemon. "Ariados, Go!" The long leg pokemon hopped from the crowd of Spinarak and jumped in front of his trainer. "This is a 1-on-1 match. The prize is all my money against all yours." He pulled out a wallet that was bulging with bills. "I got about ten of these full of cash. If you win, which you won't, you'll get all of them, but if I win I get all your money." He then looked around and started checking out Misty "And her."

"What?" Yelled Ash

"I am not an object!" Yelled Misty

"Oh you will come." Said Tai "And I mean that however you want to interpret it."

"I'm going to pretend like you didn't just say that." Said Ash "Silver use Psychic!"

"Ariados Shadow Ball!" Called Tai

Ariados started to form a ball of dark energy between its mandibles while Silver began concentrating on his Psychic attack. Ariados released the Shadow Ball just as Silver fired his Psychic attack. He now had control over Ariados' movement, but the advantage didn't last long because the Shadow Ball slammed into him. He lost his concentration and Ariados was free.

"Toxic!" Ordered Tai.

"Silver Safe Guard!" Countered Ash.

Silver barely managed to put up the Safe Guard before the poison rained down on him. After concentrating hard he managed to withstand the attack and he got back into the air.

"Silver try to use an Aero Blast!" Said Ash

"I can't" Said the Lugia "My father never showed me how to do it properly."

"Just try." Said Ash

"I'll give it a shot…" Said Silver. He opened his moth and tried to mimic what he'd seen his mother and father do on so many occasions. He gathered the air from his surrounding s into his moth and instinctively charged it with his energy.

"Poison it before it hits you!" Ordered Tai.

Ariados opted to use a Sludge Bomb and spat it at Silver. The bomb hit just as the Lugia released his Aero Blast. Ariados couldn't move out of the way in time and was utterly defeated by the powerful flying-type attack. He was left in a crater in front of the large pine and his trainer was fuming. Silver on the other hand was still flying, but it was clear to all that he was poisoned.

"You useless beast!" Shouted Tai to the fallen Ariados. "I don't know why I even bothered with a weak pokemon like you. You couldn't even beat a legendary pokemon!" He walked over to Ariados and kicked it hard.

"Hey leave it alone!" Shouted Misty. "It tried its best and it lost, so don't get mad at it!"

"Don't tell me how to train my pokemon." Said Tai "Take your money and get the hell out of my forest." He said tossing his overstuffed wallet to Ash

"I thought you said there were ten of these." Said Ash

"I lied." Said Tai. He kicked Ariados again and was about took out its pokeball. "When I get you back to the hideout your in real trouble." He promised the spider. Ariados just whimpered in fear of its trainer unable to defend itself in its weakened state. Before Tai could return it though there was a loud explosion and smoke filled the clearing.

"Prepare for trouble, it's been a long time." Said an all too familiar voice.

"Better make it double, 'cause here comes the rhyme." Said another all too familiar voice

"Oh god no." Moaned Ash "Why now? After all this time, why now?"

Their still following him? Thought Misty

"How many times do we have to tell you DO NOT interrupt the motto!" Yelled James

"Now where were we." Said Jessie "Oh yes, To protect the world from devastation."

"To unite all peoples within our nation."

Kill me now please Thought Ash

"To denounce the evils of truth and love."

"To extend our reach, blah, blah, blah." Said Ash "I already have nightmares about this damn motto so bring out whatever crazy contraption you have to try and steal my pokemon and be done with it."

They continued as if he hadn't said anything'

"To extend our reach to the stars above"

"Jessie"

"James"

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

"Surrender now or prepare to fight, fight, fight, fight."

"Meowth dat's-," Started Meowth "KILLING AROUSES ME!" "-Right"

"That was different." Said Ash nervously "I see you made it out of Sootopolis Meowth."

("Hey Meowth long time no see.") Said Dawn ("I missed you.")

"Hey kid I-" "WANT TO DEVOUR YOUR SOUL" "Missed you too."

Dawn backed away slowly afraid of the demonic cat.

"Hand over Pikachu and Lugia and no one gets hurt." Said Jessie

"How many times are you going to demand me to do something?" Asked Ash "I would think by now you'd know that I'm always going to say no and that you should just get on with it." He hadn't been through this in a long time, but it still annoyed him to no end.

"Alright twerp we'll do this your way." Said Jessie "Meowth bring out our new toy."

The Rockets had used Mitch's account at the Mach dealer to get a state of the art super robot. The ground shook and soon a very large robot shaped like a very large Kabutops stomped up behind the Rockets.

"Say hello to the Futuristic, Ultimate, Cybernetic, Kabutotron, Millennium Edition." Said James. "Or F.U.C.K ME for short."

"You've got to be kidding me." Said Ash trying to hold back his laughter. "You guys have come up with some stupid names before, but this is just too much."

"What's wrong with our name!" Asked James indignantly

"If you can't see it I'm not going to tell you." Said Ash. In truth he was a bit worried. Silver was too weak to fight, so he recalled him. And all his other pokemon were too weak as well thanks to the trainers in the forest. Misty only had Suicune, and if she released it in front of Team Rocket she was putting herself and possibly her sisters at risk. Pikachu was still knocked out from the combination of poison gas and the explosion, so he was no use. The only pokemon out were Psyduck, who was still groaning in pain, Mune, who looked about ready to drop, Dawn and Electra. Ariados was also still on the ground and it seemed that his trainer and the bug catchers ran when they saw the F.U.C.K ME.

It was starting to get dark and Ash was having trouble making out where the other trainers had run off to. He didn't have much of a choice in battling Team Rocket so he looked over to Misty.

"Ash I can't." She said "If I do you know what will happen."

"They don't know it's you." He whispered "You don't look like you used to. Plus if you're traveling with me you're going to run into them anyway."

"Hey twerp this isn't the time to flirt with your new girlfriend." Teased Jessie over the robots loud speaker. "He'll end up dumping you like he did that scrawny red-head and that annoying brown-haired girl."

"Maybe your right Ash." Said Misty trying to keep her anger in check from Jessie's insults.

Jessie mistook the look of anger to be at Ash and decided to continue poking at her. "Yes he's had many, many girls haven't you twerp? I guess you got tired of that obnoxious loud bitchy girl that followed you around for all those years. You went on a rampage after she left. Didn't even last a week before you started seeing someone else, and someone else, and yet someone else." The Rockets laughed evilly, well as evilly as they can anyway, and it echoed throughout the darkening forest.

"THAT'S IT I HAVE ENOUGH OF YOU!" Shouted Misty "Suicune Go!" She yelled.

The aurora pokemon came out of his ball and glared at the machine threatening his trainer. He wasted no time in firing an Aurora Beam at the mech. The Rockets were surprised by Suicune's appearance but that didn't make them nervous. Thanks to Mitch's good credit with the Mech. Dealer they were able to afford waterproof, shock proof, psy-proof and even beam proof plating this time. They simply had the robot cross its blades in front of the beam and the reflector devices in the blades did the rest. Suicune wasn't prepared for his own attack to fire back at him and was struck dead on by the double powered attack.

"Hey look the twerps got a shiny Pikachu." Said James pointing to Electra "Those are rare and usually really strong."

"If we bring the boss that he'll even forgive Meowth's failures." Said Jessie

"Hey!" Said the cat. This time no demonic voices came out. "You're right." Meowth went off into one of his fantasies about being Top Cat and got rapped on the head by Jessie.

"Now is not the time." She said. "Activate the Pika-grabber."

"Yes Ma'am." Said Meowth happily. Even after traveling with Pikachu he still wanted to stick it to the electric-mouse.

A large hand came out of the chest of the robot and made its way toward Electra. This is what Pikachu blearily saw as he opened his eyes. He put all his strength into one burst of Agility and landed right in the hands path.

"Pikachu!" Cried Ash "What are you doing!"

The hand closed around Pikachu and he was unconscious once again. He was taken into the mech. And as always there was a glass case waiting for him. "We got Pikachu, We got Pikachu!" Sang the Rockets.

"Suicune use Hydro Pump!" Yelled Misty.

Suicune inhaled deeply before releasing a monstrous blast of water straight at the robot.

"Incoming." Said Meowth.

"I'm on it." Said James. He hit a button and the machine started to glow faintly. Suicune's attack was once again sent right back at him. This time he dodged it and sent an Ice Beam. The attack hit the robot and froze it solid, but not for long.

"Activating defrost." Said Jessie. The temperature of the robot's outer coating began to rise and soon they were once again mobile. "Ha, not even Suicune can touch us."

"We'll see about that." Said Misty "Suicune Earthquake!"

With an echoing cry of "Cune!" The aurora pokemon caused a tremendous tremor that traveled straight for the F.U.C.K ME.

"What about ground proof?" Asked James.

"We gots somtin' better." Said Meowth. He hit a few buttons and a control stick came out of his control panel. With one more press of a button the Kubutotron flew into the air. "It's a good thing I told you to pay for the flight model." Said Meowth. "BLOOD, GIVE ME BLOOD!" He blurted out.

"I thought you were past that." Said James

"I don't know." Said Meowth "It comes and goes."

Dawn watched the battle from behind Misty. She could see that Suicune wasn't dong well and she wanted to help. She wasn't sure what she could do but she had to try something. She ran out beneath the mech. And without knowing it started to use Hidden Power.

Electra saw Dawn below the robot and decided to give her a boost. She knew Helping Hand; as a matter of fact she knew every move even though she didn't know she did. Being such a powerful pokemon the Helping Hand boosted Dawn's power by about four times its normal. The Eevee began to glow a white color and she jumped into the air charging full speed at the giant robot. She smashed straight through the engine and came out the other side. She landed softly on the ground and turned around to see what she'd done. The robot went streaming toward the ground and was heading straight for the crater where Ariados still lay.

"Suicune move Ariados!" Called Misty. Suicune quickly grabbed the spider from the crater and brought it to safety the robot landed and the fuel cells began to leak. Thanks to the fire from the destroyed engine there was a massive explosion. Predictably the Rockets went sailing into the horizon.

"Looks like you got your wish Jimmy-boy." Said Meowth dryly

"What wish?" Asked James

"We all just got fucked." Said the cat.

"And you know what else?" Asked Jessie

"We're blasting off again!"

"Wait we still got Pikachu." Said Meowth holding up a glass case with the sleeping electric mouse inside. James happened to sneeze which caused an involuntary muscle spasm, which made his hand sway just enough to knock the case away form Meowth. "You Idiot!" Yelled Meowth "I LAY A CURSE UPON YOUR SOUL!"

Ash caught the falling case and immediately released Pikachu. Through it all he continued to sleep and was oblivious to everything. Ash set Pikachu down gently and went over to the panting Eevee. He picked her up and hugged her. "You saved us all Dawn." He said

("I did?") She asked

"Yeah whatever attack that was took them out."

("I don't know what I did.") She said ("One minute I was hiding and then I just couldn't watch anymore. I'm glad I helped though.") She started to glow white again and Ash put her down. Slowly she began to evolve. Once the glow was gone a black fox-like creature with yellow rings around parts of its fur stood where an Eevee had moments ago. Dawn was now an Umbreon.

"Hey you evolved." Said Ash

("Looks that way.") She said ("I thought this would take a little longer to happen, I wish it had been during the day though.")

"You wanted to be an Espeon?" Asked Ash

She looked over at Mune, who was examining Ariados' limp form. He kept prodding the spider to see if it was alive. ("Maybe not.") She said ("I don't want to be anything like that idiot.")

"Ash do you have an empty pokeball?" Asked Misty

"For what?" Asked Ash

"Well…" She said "You should catch Ariados and take it to a Pokemon Center."

"Since when do you care about bugs?" Said Ash teasingly "And how can I catch it if it's already got a trainer?"

"Well I saw Tai drop Ariados' pokeball when he left and that robot stepped on it." She said "And even though it's a bug, it doesn't deserve what that jerk did to it."

"Well if I already have enough pokemon." Said Ash "So you have to catch it." He tossed her a pokeball. He really did want the Ariados but he figured Misty could get over her fear of bugs if she caught one.

"Ash I don't think that's a good idea." She said frightfully.

"Sure it is." Said Ash "All you have to do is throw the ball. That thing's in no condition to resist and leaving it here means it's most likely going to die."

She sighed "Fine," She gave Psyduck, who was still holding his head mournfully, to Ash and took the pokeball. "Pokeball go." She said in a monotone. The ball caught the long leg pokemon with no resistance and the capture ding sounded immediately. "I got an Ariados." She said again with no excitement.

"Ariados is a great pokemon." Said Ash "You should be proud to be its new trainer."

Misty picked up the pokeball and put it on her belt. "If you say so Ash." She said

Misty recalled Psyduck and looked at Suicune. "Can you give us a ride out of here?" She asked.

"If I must." Said Suicune. He wasn't found of people riding him, but in the state they were in he couldn't say no. Ash picked up Pikachu from his position and also picked up Mune before climbing onto Suicune's back. Misty grabbed Dawn and Electra and got behind Ash. With a flash of wind they were headed out of the forest.

"So that's how professionals do it huh?" Asked Reece

"They were beaten by an Eevee." Said Carlos

"That was not supposed to happen." Said Mitch "They had them and then that Eevee came out of nowhere."

"Should we try to find them so they can give you the money you're gonna owe those Mech. guys?" Asked Carlos

"Oh, shit." Said Mitch "At least we didn't leave empty handed." He said pulling out two photographs. "Now we can show the boss who has the other pokemon he wanted." One of the pictures was a direct shot of Ash's face and the other was a side view of Misty's. The trio left the forest and immediately contacted headquarters.

A/N: Wow, before I added the review responses and Author's note this chapter was at 7,700+ words. If you ask me that's kind of long. A lot happened in this chapter and I hope nothing in it offended anyone. If it did well…too bad. I made this one extra long because I doubt I will be able to get 30 up before I head back to school. I just got HP6 today and I am going to be reading that too. Therefore I don't think anymore chapters are going to be up until maybe next weekend. I could be wrong though.