The Explorer

A/N: Hello again my students it's your beloved Joro-Sensei Nuruhuhu. Here is take seven otherwise known as chapter Seven for you guys. Whaaaaat! Two chapters in a row?! Hehehehe I felt I owed to those that patiently waited for me. Yay, I'm awesome! This one will be a very interesting one. I am really excited about this one because of the battle scenes. This one and last chapter were supposed to be a mega chapter but in the end, I decided to separate it into two. You'll also see a few elements from a very specific anime. It will be an interesting take. Also, a very interesting catch that not many ficks do or focus on. You all will also enjoy my take on Viridian City and Team Rocket, especially one character from Team Rocket in particular. That's it. Well enough dilly-dallies let's get to it. I hope you all enjoy this Chapter. I'll be seeing all of you at the end.

Disclaimer: I don't own Pokémon. If I owned Pokémon, I'd be swimming in a pool of gold coins. Don't you think so?

Chapter 7: The Demon Cat

"Aura speech"

"thoughts and Psychic speech"

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(Skies of Viridian City)

As Ash and his friends walked to the Pokecenter, over the skies of Viridian City was a hot air balloon with the face of the Pokémon Meowth.

"I can't believe they couldn't get a better angle of me on this picture," a female voice said in annoyance.

"Your one to talk. This picture looks nothing like me" a male voice said as he reviewed his wanted poster.

"Will the both of you shut up!? We need to complete this mission for the master otherwise he'll have your heads! You're on thin ice as it is" a deep voice said in anger.

"Alright alright don't get your fur wet over it," the male voice said.

"Yeah we'll get it done," the female voice said nonchalantly.

The owner of the deep voice tch before thinking, as he looked through his binoculars, "Idiot humans. Distortion, Ariana would've been better. I can handle that sadistic bitch better than these two."

The deep-pitched voice thought as he looked at the pair arguing about the wanted posters.

"This is so below me. Stealing 'rare' Pokémons from a Pokémon center? Yeah right. My real partner and I would steal from warehouses and breeders that were guarded by the League themselves. There is no one in Team Rocket that doesn't know 'Deathwish.'" the figure thought as he remembered all the missions he went in the past.

"I wonder how he is right now. He was incredibly pissed when the master said he was going to assign us two different missions," then the voice sighed, "Whatever, orders are orders."

The figure, to ignore the pair behind him, continued looking through his binoculars towards the Pokémon Center.

(Outskirts of Fuchsia City)

Currently, a squad of ACE Trainers, led by Fuchsia Gym Leader Koga, were chasing a squadron of Team Rocket grunts led by an executive.

"Dam! Weezing poison gas!" the executive shouted towards his Pokémon.

The Weezing obeyed and fired a massive amount of poison gas towards the ACE trainers and Koga.

The ACE squadron was ready and put on their gas masks and Koga was already protected with his scarf over his mouth. His Beedrill and Crobat didn't need protection,

"You think this will be enough to stop us?!" Koga shouted as he was running straight into the poison gas alongside his Pokémons.

"No, but they will!" the executive shouted.

"What?!" Koga shouted as he ran inside the gas cloud.

However, he and his squadron stopped as they saw five circular figures in front of them.

"Are those?" an ACE trainer was going to say but was stopped by Koga's scream.

"GET OUT NOW!"

"EXPLOSION!"

The Outskirts of Fuchsia were illuminated in a great explosion as a total of five Electrodes exploded at the same time.

After a few seconds passed the smoke was cleared by a whirlwind from Crobat.

Out of it came a scathed but relatively fine Koga. However, not all of the ACE trainers were so lucky.

There were quite a few injured trainers and sadly one was killed as he was the closest to the Electrodes.

Koga then noticed that Team Rocket had disappeared in the explosion they caused. His Beedril and Crobat looked at him waiting for their orders. He nodded at them and both Pokémons went over the skies to see if they could spot Team Rocket.

Koga looked at his injured squadron with an unreadable expression but in his eyes, one could clearly see a burning fury and it was only because of his many years of training that stopped him from lashing out.

"Dam them" Koga muttered quietly as he looked over the dead body of an ACE trainer.

(With Team Rocket)

All of the Team Rocket grunts and even the Executive were down on their knees panting trying to regain their breath. The executive growled in anger as he panted while looking at his assigned Team.

The mission had been simple enough. Just infiltrate the Safari zone of Fuchsia City and poach some rare Pokémons that were imported all the way from the Galar region.

What the executive didn't expect was for one of his grunts to be spotted by Gym Leader Koga of all people! It had been a setup and he had fallen for it.

It turned out that the dammed grunt had folded under Koga's capture and had told him everything on what they were doing there. Afterward, it was them fleeing to avoid capture.

It was only because of those Electrodes that they were able to escape Koga but he knew he wouldn't give up that easily and had probably sent his Crobat and Beedril to look for them.

"Sir are you alright?" a grunt asked.

"Bring me the one that folded," he said darkly.

The grunts obeyed him and brought forth the one that had been captured. The said grunt was terrified of the executive before him.

"Si-sir I ca-can ex-explain" the grunt quivered in terror.

"Raticate" the executive simply said.

The grunt didn't even know what happened as a huge Raticate pounced on his neck with a Hyper Fang instantly killing him. However, the Raticate wasn't done and mangled the corpse on its mouth before throwing it to the side. The blood still dripping from its tooth.

"Let this be a reminder to the rest of you to not be captured again" the grunt growled as his Raticate looked at the grunts with blood in his mouth.

The grunts were terrified but nodded nonetheless. They had also backed away from him in fear.

"Arceus, I wish he was here. Then this mission would have been a success and we would have had a bunch of Galarian Pokémon" the executive said.

"You do know that if you keep killing grunts whenever you're angry we're eventually going to run out of them, right?" another voice said behind the angry executive.

"Proton," the executive said.

"In the flesh" executive Proton said.

"What are you doing here? Came to mock me?" he asked again.

"On any other time yes but this time no. The master wants to see you" Proton said as he smirked.

The executive gulped at that. If there was any man, he was absolutely terrified by it was the master.

"Any reason why he wants to see me?" the executive asked as he tried to hide his fear.

"Don't know he just told me to come get you" Proton said as he shrugged.

The man nodded and both he and Proton, and the grunts, were teleported back to their headquarters.

(Terracotta Town) (A few minutes before everything happened)

In the harbor overlooking the vast Kanto Ocean was a man in an orange suit that was looking over many reports from the League and his own gym trainees on current events in his city and the Kanto region as a whole,

This man was the strongest gym leader of all the main 8 gyms in Kanto, and Elite 4 candidate, Giovanni.

"Well, that's the last ship to dock," Giovanni said as he looked at the docked ship.

"Sir, Sir!" a trainee rushed at him.

Giovanni looked at the panting trainee before him with a questioning gaze.

"Calm down and take a deep breath" Giovanni recommended and once the trainee regained his breath he said, "What is it?"

"Sir look at this!" the trainee said as he handed his monitoring tablet to the Gym Leader.

Giovanni took the tablet and saw red as he watched the image on the tablet, "What!?"

(Back with Ash &Co)

During their trek to the Pokémon center, Ash had separated from the rest of the group to go to the local library.

Misty, Eren, and Mikasa went to the counter of the Pokémon Center. Haru was fast asleep in Misty's back with Pampour on top of his head asleep too.

"Hello there! I'm Nurse Joy, how can I help you three?" the kind Nurse Joy asked.

"Yes we were wondering if you could take a look at our Pokémons please," Eren asked politely.

"Of course," Nurse Joy said before pressing a button on her desk and afterward a Chansey appeared with a tray that holds Pokeballs.

"Just put you're Pokémon on there and we'll fix them right up," the nurse said.

Eren, Misty, and Mikasa did as told and gave their Pokémons to Chansey.

"Do you want to go to Tiger?" Mikasa asked her Pokémon who shook his head no at her.

After that they all went to the lobby area and sat down on one of the Sofas to rest from their long walk, Luxray just laid down next to Mikasa's feet. Misty had also been able, without waking either one, to put Haru- who was now hugging Pampour –on her lap.

"So how long have both of you known Ash?" Misty asked.

"We've known him most of our lives. Isn't that right Mikasa?" Eren said and then asked his sister who nodded at him.

"Has he always been like that?" Misty asked.

"Like what?" Eren said in confusion.

"You know," Misty asked again.

"?" was on Eren's face.

"I think she means how Ash can act relaxed but serious all the time" Mikasa explained.

"Oh you should have just said so, but yes he's always been like that since we've met him. Nothing really fazes him and he always analyzes any situation he's in and tries to find the best solution for it. He's the smartest guy I know. Only second to Professor Oak" Eren said.

"What are his dreams? Has he ever told you guys?" Misty asked.

"Not dreams," Mikasa said.

"Excuse me?" Misty said as she looked at Mikasa.

"Ash doesn't have dreams. He has goals/ambitions that he plans to accomplish" Mikasa said.

"Like what?" Misty pressed on.

"We don't know the exact details but what he's said is that he plans to uncover the mysteries of this world," Eren said this time.

"Mysteries of this world?" Misty asked.

"Like we said we don't have the details," Eren said.

Misty was amazed and just said her next question without thinking, "Are his eyes real?"

Both Eren and Mikasa simply stared at Mikasa for a few seconds before lightly laughing. Misty then blushed when she realized what she had asked.

"It's okay we get that question from time to time," Mikasa said.

"Really?" Misty asked

"Yeah, sometimes no one believes his eyes are real but they really are," Eren said but then cup his chin in a thoughtful expression, "I think he's the only one in all of Pallet Town and maybe even Kanto as a whole that has violet eyes."

"Not really Eren. I think Kanto Elite Four Agatha also has Violet eyes. You know because of ghosts and stuff" Mikasa said.

"Oh right! I forgot about that" Eren said.

Afterward, their conversations just went to Ash and whatever other topic they could think off

(With Ash)

Walking out of the library was Ash with a book titled: The mythology of the three legendary birds of Kanto.

He then released Azami and Yuki from their pokeballs. Since he couldn't bring them to the library, and he didn't want to leave any of them outside, he returned them to their pokeballs. However, Katsuki remained in his Pokeball because when he released him, he was deeply asleep and Ash didn't want to disturb him so he simply returned Katsuki to his Pokeball.

"Sorry for putting you guys in your Pokeballs. They didn't allow Pokémons inside" Ash said.

Azami and Yuki shrugged saying they didn't mind.

"Good then let's go back to the Pokémon Center," Ash said with his Pokémons nodding and heading off.

Yuki had gotten back on Azami.

Once Ash's back was turned Yuki tapped Azami's neck. She turned and Yuki look expectantly at her, Azami nodded.

"Hmm, I wonder if I'll be able to find something interesting in the Viridian Forest. There have been reports of strange lights coming from inside the forest but many just assume it's from a Pikachu colony that lives there. Is it only that though? Or is something else going on. Well, we'll see" Ash was thinking.

Azami shook her head at Ash and Yuki giggle because they could both hear his thoughts. They found it amusing, Azami, and adorable, Yuki, when Ash went on a muttering spree of discovering something new or have a chance at exploring an unexplored area.

"Ash," Azami said telepathically hoping Ash heard her.

Ash stopped and looked around confusedly. There was no one around him but he could've sworn someone called out to him.

"Ash, can you hear me?" Azami asked knowing Ash heard her.

"Who's that? Where are you?" Ash asked.

"Behind you Papa," a cute childish voice said behind him.

Ash turned and the only ones that were there were Azami and Yuki. He looked at them oddly but after a few seconds of staring at them, his brain put the pieces together.

"Wait. Are you both talking to me telepathically?" Ash said in shock.

"Is it because of that weird Psychic energy in the air?" Ash asked.

"Correct," "Yes Papa!" were his replies.

"I see," Ash said.

Ash was in a state of shock of finally being able to hear his Gardevoir talk to him. He thought it would be months before she could even attempt to talk to him. However, he then soon realized that Azami was talking to him telepathically! A Poison-type Pokémon was using telepathy like a Psychic-type Pokémon!

"Yes, I can speak to you telepathically Ash," Azami said.

"Wait were you reading-" Ash said but was cut off by Azami.

"Your mind? Yes," Azami said liking the shock in her friend's eyes.

"But how?" Ash said still shocked.

"Look at my eyes Ash," Azami said and did as told.

"Wait why are your eyes in a different color? They have a blue and pink mix coloration" Ash said as he examined her eyes.

"That has to do with why I'm talking to you," Azami said.

"What do you mean?" Ash asked.

"I'll explain it in a little bit, but first," Azami said but stopped and then looked towards Yuki, "I think someone is pouting."

Ash turned and saw that Yuki was pouting next to Azami.

"Yuki-chan? Why are you pouting?" Ash asked his 'daughter.'

"Because both of you are ignoring me!" Yuki said with a full pout on her face.

Instead of feeling bad for her Ash simply giggled at Yuki.

"Why are you laughing at me, papa?!" Yuki exclaimed.

"Because you're cute when you get angry," Ash said with a smile.

"Wha wha wha! I'm not cute when angry! I'm scary when angry!" Yuki said as a blush of embarrassment was on her face.

"Prove it, growl at us," Ash said teasingly.

"I will! Get ready because I'm going to scare the daylights out of you both with how scary I am when angry!" Yuki said confidently.

Ash and Azami just looked at her with a "Go on" face.

Yuki got ready and put her arms and then, "Growl!"

Ash and Azami just looked at Yuki after her growl.

Nobody said or moved anything for a while, afterwards both Ash and Azami were in front of a, still in growling stance, Yuki.

"That was the cutest growling I've ever heard Yuki-chan," Ash said with a big smile on his face as he patted a red-faced Yuki.

"Agreed but don't worry Yuki. There are people and Pokémons out there that will die from your cuteness" Azami said trying to encourage the embarrassed Pokémon.

Yuki still had her head down in embarrassment but she was inwardly smiling and proud of herself because her Papa still found her cute. As long as he found her cute and adorable she doesn't care how other Pokémon and mean people view her. The only one she needed in her life was her papa and he was the one she loved the most.

Yuki's face then went full tomato at Ash's next words.

"I'm glad I can finally hear your voice Yuki-chan," Ash said,

Yuki couldn't take it anymore and gave Ash a big hug as she cried a little bit.

"I love you! Thank you so much for saving me all those months ago Papa! Thank you for everything you've done for me. As long as you and aunty are with me I am happy beyond belief. I've always wanted to talk to you, Papa! It was a dream of mine to tell you how much I love you and now it's come true! I don't know for how long it'll last but I'm happy that I can talk to you" Yuki said as she hugged her father.

Azami just smiled at the scene. She knew how badly Yuki wanted to talk to Ash and it was no wonder why she was so emotional when hugging Ash.

However, now it was time to tell Ash everything about her. She hadn't expected it to be so soon but it was now or never. If she wanted to grow stronger she needed to tell Ash everything. If there was something Ash was good at it was being a great battle tactician and move combiner. Who knew what he would come up for her once he learned the truth about her. She only hoped that he could take it.

"Well then I think some explaining needs to be done Azami," Ash said as Yuki let go of him and stood next to him now.

"Indeed but let's go to the park close to the Pokémon center. That way once we're done talking we can head back there. I could use a good night's sleep. Also, speak in your mind. I can hear your thoughts and talk to you telepathically for a while. People would think you're crazy if they see you talking to me and Yuki" Azami explained.

Ash soon realized the meaning of those words and looked around where they were but thankfully no one had been around them to see him talking to his Pokémons.

"Very well. Let's go" Ash said and afterward the three of them headed off to the Pokémon center.

"I can't even imagine what you're going to tell me Azami" Ash thought with Azami hearing him.

"You have no idea" Azami replied.

Yuki only looked on in confusion at what they were talking about. Hopefully, they would let her listen in.

(Viridian City Park) (Close to the Pokémon Center)

Currently, Ash was sitting on a bench alongside Yuki and Azami was next to him ready to explain her story. However, her tail was slowly slithering to where Yuki was on the bench without her noticing.

"Alright before anything," Azami said but stopped and then looked at Yuki apologetically, "Sorry Yuki."

"Why are- ugh!" Yuki was saying but was cut off as Azami's tail hit her on the back of her neck instantly knocking her out cold.

"Why did you do that Azami?" Ash told his friend as Yuki's head laid on his lap since she fell that way.

"I'm sorry Ash, but she's not ready to listen to what I'm about to tell you. I will tell her one day but not today. That also goes for my future teammates. Please return her to her Pokeball" Azami told Ash.

"Must be something serious then" Ash said as he returned the unconscious Yuki to her Pokeball.

After putting her Pokeball in his belt he looked at Azami with expectation, "Well? Out with it?"

Azami sighed before saying in a serious tone

"What I'm about to tell you is something very serious and important and I want you to promise me you won't tell anyone. Agreed?" Azami said as she looked at Ash.

"Something that serious huh? Well alright, I agree" Ash said in a serious manner.

Azami nodded and began telling Ash about her talk with Lord Arceus.

Ash made no noise or ever interrupted her story. He just looked at her with a neutral face.

"And that's why I can do what I do and my unlimited potential," Azami said ending her tale.

Ash continued to look at Azami as if he was analyzing her.

Azami began to worry since Ash wasn't saying anything. She was afraid that her friend would think she was lying or maybe call her a freak of nature. If that happened she didn't know how she could continue on living.

"So that's why the color of your eye changes?" Ash finally said.

"You've noticed that?" Azami asked.

"Yeah. From time to time I would see that and when you did it I always wondered why your electric attacks got stronger. Huh? Guess I know now why" Ash said in a more relaxed manner as he stopped looking at her.

"Are you okay with this? I thought you'd be more freaked out actually" Azami said.

"Nah, you know me. I like to analyze what I can before I come out with a conclusion. Besides, I kind of always knew there was something different with you" Ash said.

"How do you figure?" Azami asked.

"You're attacks, actually. No Seviper that I know off can pull off Electric attacks as good as you. You even know Stone Edge!" Ash said.

Azami only sighed inwardly happy that her friend still liked her.

"Besides I'm already imagining all the possible combination attacks we can do. Hehe just thinking about it gives me shivers. Your potential is limitless Azami!" Ash said excitedly.

Azami only smiled at her friend while thanking Lord Arceus for giving her someone who cares for her a lot.

"I'm excited about this development, but I'm worried," Ash said.

"Why?" Azami asked.

"Because eventually your true nature will be revealed to the world. Especially once we compete in the Indigo League. It took me all I had just to explain to the professor why you could do electric attacks and even stone edge" Ash said in a tired face.

"Ash," Azami asked as she looked at her friend.

Ash sighed before saying, "Well whatever. We'll cross that bridge when the time comes."

Azami smiled before Ash looked at her.

"However I do want to ask you something Azami," Ash said as he looked at her again.

"What is it?" Azami asked.

"Was it you the one who created that lightning bolt two years ago close to Cyllage City?" Ash asked.

"How do you?" Azami asked.

"I was in Cyllage City when that Lightning Bolt formed over the connecting caves," Ash said.

"Yes that was me," Azami said.

"Figured as much. Were you also the one that gave out that huge roar? It really hurt our ears you know" Ash said.

"Yes that was also me," Azami said with her head down but then continued, "Sorry about that. I didn't mean to hurt any of you. I…I just wasn't thinking straight at that point."

"Don't worry about it. However, why? Does it somehow involve Aiko and why you were so hurt when Serena and I found you?" Ash asked.

"Yes," Azami said sadly.

"What happened? You can tell me anything. We're friends aren't we?" Ash said as he petted Azami's head.

"You're right," Azami said and then began telling Ash about her painful past in Kalos and how she came to meet Aiko, and what happened to her father.

Ash didn't interrupt her while she told her tale and just looked at her with calm, kind, and understanding eyes.

Once Azami was done she had her head down in shame as those sad memories floated through her mind. However, she was caught off guard when Ash gave her a big hug.

"I am so sorry you had to go through all that Azami," Ash said as he hugged her tightly.

Azami smiled at how kind and loving Ash was to her. She returned the hug by leaning in her head.

They stayed like that for a while until Ash broke the hug.

"I swear Azami that someway somehow we'll bring down Team Flare for what they truly are. What they've done to you and many other Pokémon will not go unpunished" Ash said with a passion in his eyes proving he wasn't kidding.

"I couldn't have asked Lord Arceus for a better friend than you Ash," Azami said proudly.

As they both smiled they didn't see that something was falling towards the Pokémon Center.

"BOOM!"

The blast was so big that caused them to fall down and startle them and everyone else that was close by.

"What was that!?" Azami said as she stood in front of Ash protectively.

"I was most definitely an explosion," Ash said out loud while analyzing the situation.

Soon both their eyes widened when they realized where the blast came from.

"The Pokémon Center," Ash and Azami said mentally and out loud.

After that, they went running towards the Pokémon Center.

As they were running there they saw that many police cars were rushing towards the Pokémon Center.

"Dam it! We need to hurry up Azami!" Ash said as he stopped running and jumped on Azami's back.

Azami, with Ash on her, picked up speed to the point she was a blur to the normal eye.

It wasn't long before they got there but what they saw were many people injured, no deaths thankfully, and a raging battle between the Viridian City Police Department and a group of Pokémons consisting of Tyranitar, Aggron, Lickylicky, Drapion, and oddly enough a Galarian Perrserker.

"What in the world is going on?" Ash said loud enough for Azami to hear.

"An attack is what is going on" Azami answered Ash.

"But why? Everything was peaceful a few minutes ago and now this! Wait?" Ash said but stopped as he squinted his eyes at something that he saw on the Pokémons.

"What is that thing on their chests?" Ash said and sure enough on the Pokémons chests, there were strange devices, with a glowing light in the middle.

They were brought out their thoughts by a few screams.

"Dam it!" "Close your eyes!" "Mommy, Daddy!" was what Ash and Azami heard.

Both of them turned towards where the screams were coming from. Sure enough there was a small family that was cowering as the forms of Perrserker and Lickylicky were coming for the Kill with a Brick Break and Night Slash attack respectively.

The officers couldn't help since they were busy trying to control the raging Tyranitar, Aggron, and Drapion.

"Go Azami. As you go use Swords Dance and then use Volt Tackle" Ash said to her as he got off her.

Azami nodded with a focused expression and dashed, as her body was being enveloped in electricity, towards the family. As she dashed there she had used Swords Dance to strengthen her attack.

Just before Lickylicky and Perrserker could kill the family, Azami had smashed her entire body in Volt Tackle against Lickylicky's side. The force was so great that Licklylicky was sent flying away covered in electricity alongside Perrserker since the Pokémon was right next to Lickylicky when Azami smacked it.

They both smashed straight into a nearby building still in electricity.

The family looked in awe at the Seviper that had saved them. However, that awe turned into slight fear as the Pokémon looked at them.

"It's alright, she's my Pokémon," Ash said to the family.

The family turned around and saw the most intimidating 10-year-old boy they have ever seen. His violet eyes were staring into their very souls. His head covered by his hoodie only made him look more intimidating because the only two things they could see were his eyes. The rest was covered by a shadow,

"Are you all okay?" Ash asked them.

"Uh oh yes! Thank you for saving us young man!" the father said to him, his wife had her daughter in her arms as she stood behind her husband because she was freaked out by the kid in front of them.

Ash nodded but then his head turned around so quickly when he saw a Flash Cannon, courtesy of Aggron, heading towards them.

"Azami, Stone Edge!" Ash said.

Azami quickly obeyed and hit the ground with the end of her tail and afterward, four huge stones emerged from the ground in front of Ash and the family.

The Flash Cannon smashed into the Stone Edge but wasn't able to completely destroy it.

"Please get out of here, It's dangerous," Ash said as calmly as possible.

The family didn't need to be told twice and left the area as quickly as possible. Never once thinking why a Seviper could use electric attacks.

"Get ready Azami. They're coming to" Ash told his Pokémon once the family left.

Lickylicky and the Galarian Perrserker got up dazed and with sparks over their bodies but also angry. That anger was focused on Ash and Azami. Then they both dashed towards Ash in an Iron Head and Rollout attack.

"Kid get out of there!" Ash heard an officer yell at him.

Instead of listening to him Ash just kept looking at the two attacks heading for him.

"Azami be ready to move me and yourself at my signal" Ash said with a focused expression before saying again, "Let's use their momentum against them."

Before the attacks could hit them Ash gave his signal.

"Now Azami!" Ash yelled out as Azami's tail coiled around him and then jumped.

As they jumped over the charging Pokémons said Pokémons because of their momentum, smashed into a nearby car.

"Go Azami! Sludge Bomb!" Ash ordered while still in Azami's grasp.

Azami breathed in and fired a glob of Poison at Lickylicky and Perrserker completely drenching them in poison.

Licklylicky felt the poison burn into him but Perrserker being a steel type didn't even flinch. However, that was not to last.

"Now Azami, smokescreen!" Ash commanded once they had landed on the streets.

Asami did as told and blew out a thick smokescreen at the raging Pokémons. All the while thinking, "Please, these two are nothing compared to those raging beasts."

The attacking Pokémons were dazed and in pain, so they hadn't had time to move out of the way as the thick Smokescreen covered them.

"Go Azami, Fire Bomb!" Ash ordered.

Azami took in another deep breath before firing her Flamethrower attack at the pair of Pokémons.

The moment the fire touched the Smokescreen, it immediately caused an explosion that burned and damaged the raging Pokémons. Everyone stopped to momentarily look at what had happened.

The Pokémons screamed in pain.

"That kid is hardcore," one officer said.

Once the smoke settled the charring and unconscious bodies of Licklylicky and Perrserker could be seen laying on the road. The devices that had been in their chests had also been destroyed.

"Good job kid!" the chief officer jenny yelled at him while her Arcanine battled Drapion and her officers were slowly submitting Aggron and Tyranitar.

"Now come and help us beat these three! We need any strong trainer we can!" Jenny yelled.

Ash was flattered she considered him a strong trainer and nodded at her.

"Let's go Azami!" Ash told his Pokémon who nodded at him.

However, before they could get there they were stopped when the doors of the Pokémon Center were destroyed as a figure, that was a Pokémon, was thrown out with extreme force.

The Pokémon was sent flying so fast that it smashed right into Drapion, knocking him and it out.

"What the Distortion!" Jenny yelled out, her Arcanine confused as the Drapion he was battling was knocked out.

Ash squinted his eyes and then his eyes became wide with worry when he saw that it was Mikasa's Luxray that had crashed into Drapion.

"My Arceus! That's Luxray!" Ash said surprised mixed with fear.

Azami looked on ready for anything

Suddenly a sixth Pokémon came out of the Pokémon Center, it was a huge Garbodor.

"Dam it! We need to get in there Azami!" Ash told his Pokémon who nodded at him.

However, before Ash could come up with a plan they saw in horror as Aggron, Tyranitar, and Garbodor had gathered and were preparing to fire a combined Hyper Beam!

It didn't take long as the three Hyper Beams were fired straight towards the downed form of Luxray. The mad Pokémons didn't even care that their attack was going to hit Drapion.

"Everybody out of the way!" Jenny yelled out as her officers and she got out of the way of the now combined Hyper Beam.

The blast was tearing through the ground as it made a beeline towards Luxray with the intent to kill him and in the condition he was there was no doubt that the attack would kill him. Pokémons were durable but not that durable.

"That's going straight for Luxray!" Ash said in horror.

Azami clicked her tongue.

However, unlike everyone else they weren't running away.

"Go Azami and deflect that attack using Zangetsu!" Ash said as he pointed at Luxray.

Azami got ready and afterward disappeared in a burst of speed as Ash yelled out "Sonido!"

Azami then reappeared in between Luxray and where the Hyper Beam was coming from.

Azami prepared her Iron Tail but then she changed the end of her tail to her Zangetsu blade. Then she put her Zangetsu in position.

However, what no one, besides Ash and Azami, saw was that the entirety of Azami's Zangetsu tail was covered in black nightshade of color. Like this was the only way that she would be able to deflect the massive Hyper Beam heading towards her.

As the Hyper Beam was getting closer she arched her blade backward and as the Hyper Beam was about to hit them she brought her Zangetsu blade in and smacked the hyper beam, with the open blade, upwards into the night sky so it wouldn't hurt anyone.

The Hyper Beam in any other case would have burned her tail but because of the "armament," since that's how it felt to Azami, protected her tail from getting any burns as she was deflecting the Hyper Beam.

Both Ash and Azami had no idea where this black "Armament" came from or how it came to be but nonetheless used it since it made her Iron Tail Zangetsu stronger. They had even asked the ancient Hitmonlee back at the corral if he knew anything about it, since they've seen his leg turn the same color, and all he said was "Huh? Interesting."

However, all those thoughts disappeared when Azami was able to fully deflect the Hyper Beam.

The Pokémons who fired the Hyper Beams were beyond shocked that that Seviper was able to deflect their combined attack.

Ash was able to reach where Luxray was, once it was safe and was currently applying a Super Potion and an Antidote to Luxray's injuries and poison hue but even still doing that he was still focused on the battle and he was definitely going to take advantage of the Pokémons shocked state.

"Azami, improvised technique!" Ash said with Azami getting ready.

"Clothesline from Distortion!" Ash said as he pointed towards the Pokémons.

Azami then dashed with the speed granted by a quick attack and extended the full length of her mid-chest to her tail to do her attack. By the time the three Pokémons had noticed her she was already in front of them.

Then she smashed her attack on the three Pokémon's throat, bringing the air out of them and knocking them backward. They were heavy but she was able to bring them down.

"Good job Azami!" Ash said as he gave Luxray an Oran Berry.

"Good job kid" Officer Jenny said as she stood by him, her Arcanine ready.

"Thank you officer, but I know that that won't keep them down forever," Ash said.

"I knew you'd say that," Officer Jenny said as she looked at the three Pokémons who were trying to regain their breaths.

They were brought out of their train of thought when they heard a couple of voices yelling.

"DIE!"

"I WON'T LET YOU TOUCH HER!"

"What is going on in there?" Jenny asked no one.

Ash's eyes then hardened, even more, when he saw that the downed Pokémons were starting to slowly get up.

"It's now or never," Ash thought then looked at the officer next to him.

"Officer please take care of Luxray. I gave him a super potion and an Oran berry, but he's still hurt" Ash said as he gave one last pat to Luxray and then stood up.

"Kid? What are you planning to do?" Jenny asked the kid.

Ash looked at her with those violet eyes, which slightly intimidated her, before saying, "I'm going to save my friends."

"Azami!" Ash yelled out.

Azami appeared next to him in a burst of speed caused by her using her Sonido.

Ash got on her back one more time.

"Good luck officer," Ash said to officer jenny.

"Kid wait?!" jenny said.

"Sonido" Ash said and right after he said that they disappeared in another burst of speed.

"Where did he?" Jenny said.

"Chief watch out!" one of her officers yelled towards her.

Jenny looked to where the officer pointed and coming towards her was Aggron firing a flash cannon towards her.

"Arcanine, Fire Blast!" Jenny ordered.

Arcanine did as told and fired the kanji for fire at the incoming flash cannon.

There was an explosion from the attacks canceling each other out. However, jenny was left unscathed from the blast.

"Good luck kid," Jenny thought thinking about the violet-eyed kid.

(Inside the Pokémon Center)

(Flashback)

As the three kids continued chatting they never noticed that three bombs were falling from the sky towards the Pokémon Center. Well except one.

Mikasa felt a foreboding thought as she looked upwards. Luxray had woken up as well when he felt his ward tense.

"Mikasa?" Eren asked as he and Misty looked at her.

Mikasa's eyes widened as she tackled Eren and Misty to the side before yelling out, "Take cover!"

Afterward, an explosion detonated over the Pokémon center that destroyed much of the roof. Many pieces of the roof fell inwards but thankfully the only ones that were there had been Nurse Joy and her Chansey as well as the kids.

Nurse Joy and Chansey had taken cover under the front desk. While Eren, Mikasa, Haru, Pampour, and Misty were slightly unscathed but there was a reason for that.

"Eren, Eren are you okay?!" Mikasa asked worriedly at her brother.

"He's fine Mikasa. He just passed out like Haru and Pampour. Probably from the shockwave of whatever that was" Misty said as she had on her arms both Haru and Pampour. There was a trail of blood flowing from her head but it wasn't that severe.

"What could have that been?" Misty asked.

"It was an explosion. The question is from who?" Mikasa said.

Soon she remembered her own Pokémon!

"Wait where's Tiger?!" Mikasa asked again worriedly.

"Mikasa, look" Misty pointed behind her.

Mikasa turned and her eyes widened when she saw that Tiger was holding a huge piece of the roof on his back preventing it from falling over them.

"That's why we're mostly unscathed!" Mikasa thought.

"How is he able to hold that off?!" Misty thought.

Indeed Luxray was holding off that big piece of building that was going to fall on the kids. He was using all his strength to hold it off.

"Come on Misty!" Mikasa said as she gently laid down Eren.

"Right!" Misty said as she also put down gently Haru and Pampour next to Eren.

Afterward, Mikasa and Misty ran towards Luxray and were somehow able to move the piece of the roof that Luxray was holding off.

"Dam, you're really strong Mikasa," Misty said as she was huffing from using a lot of her strength to move the piece of the roof off Luxray.

"I get that a lot," Mikasa said slightly huffing.

Luxray however had fallen on all fours since the strain of holding off a big piece of the roof on his back was very great. His back hurt a lot because it smacked right into it.

"Tiger are you okay? Can you walk?" Mikasa asked worriedly to her Pokémon.

Luxray still hurt, gave Mikasa a reassuring smile and wobbly stood up. To which Mikasa nodded and smiled.

Afterward, both Mikasa and Misty headed back to Eren, Haru, and Pampour.

Mikasa was able to put Eren on her back to carry him. Misty on the other hand returned Pampour to his Pokeball and afterward carried her little brother in her arms.

"What could have caused that?" Misty asked the stronger girl next to her.

"I don't know. Let's go to Nurse Joy to make sure she and our Pokémons are okay" Mikasa said to which Misty nodded at.

As they both headed to Nurse Joy they stopped midway and hid behind a wall of the Pokémon Center when they heard that Nurse Joy was talking to someone or someones.

"Now hand over the rare Pokémons you have here lady! Otherwise, we'd have to get violent!" a female voice said.

"So go get them. We'd hate to bruise that pretty little face of yours" a male voice said this time.

"I don't have any rare Pokémons here! There all injured and need treatment! What you caused will only endanger them more!" Nurse Joy said but pressed the silent alarm under her desk.

There was one that did notice and all he thought was "Idiots."

"Well, then I guess we'll just take whatever Pokémons you have here," the male voice said.

"Who are you?!" Nurse Joy shouted with her Chansey hiding behind her since she wasn't used to fighting.

"Who we are?" the female voice said before looking at her companion and asking him. "Should we introduce ourselves?"

"Let's," the man said.

The other shorter figure rubbed his temples in annoyance while thinking, "They're really going to do it?" He saw they were preparing something, "Yeah they are."

"Prepare for trouble," the woman said.

"And make it double" the man continued.

"To protect the world from devastation," the woman said again.

"To unite all people within our nation," the man said.

"To denounce the evils of truth and love," the woman said.

"To extend our reach to the stars above," the man said.

"Jessie!" the now-named Jessie said as she posed.

"James!" the now-named James said as he also posed.

"Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light!" Jessie said.

"Surrender now or prepare to fight!" James said.

There was a slight pause with no one saying anything as the two Team Rocket members stayed in their poses waiting for something…or rather someone.

"Come on! The motto is not complete if you don't play your part!" James said aggravated.

"You promised you'd be part of it!" Jessie said.

"I only said that to shut the both of you up! And being the naïve idiots you both are, believed me" another figure said in annoyance.

"Is that?" Nurse Joy thought as she saw who they were talking to.

"Who are they talking to?" Misty asked Mikasa.

"I don't know. We need to peek a little bit more" Mikasa said and afterward both girls peek more.

"Is that a!?" Mikasa and Misty thought.

"Come on, all you had to say was your name!" James said.

"Please Meowth!" Jessie said revealing who she was talking to.

"A talking Meowth!" Nurse Joy, Mikasa, and Misty thought.

Sure, enough there was a talking Meowth speaking with the Team Rocket members. However, this Meowth was dressed weirdly as it wore two boots on its feet, he was also standing on two feet, and it had a dark hat with a red feather attached to it and on its had letter R that symbolized his allegiance to the criminal organization. He also had a red scarf on his neck. However, he looked old, like very old, and with a big scar from the top of his head all the way down his right eye. He was also tall for his species. (A/N: The Meowth from the Hoenn League and the scar is like Endeavors)

He also had a furious/irritated expression on his face as he watched Jessie and James.

"I said…NOO!" Meowth said angrily as he began storming towards them.

Jessie and James both backed up in fear at the semi-small Pokémon. They knew who he was in the ranks of Team Rocket and at first, were excited when the master put him with them but soon found out how sadistic he can be.

"Now listen here, rookies. I will not lend myself for your idiocy. For the record, Team Rocket has no motto! You two idiots are the only ones that even do it! Also, why are you wearing white! Every single Team Rocket member I know wears black because that is how we blend in the night when we do our operations. You two stick out like a rotten apple!" Meowth said angrily.

Meowth then jumped and grabbed both Jessie and James by their shirts and pulled them down hard. Now, they were watching Meowth's terrifying slit eyes as he looked at them.

"Never include me in your idiocy and let's get this mission over with" Meowth had said but afterward pulled out his very sharps claws and pointed them directly at James and Jessie's face, "Otherwise I'm going to rip your faces with these claws that have killed many many people and Pokémons who have pissed me off."

Jessie and James could only gulp in terror at the sadistic talking Pokémon.

"Now. Let's get this mission over with before the cops get here. The alarm must have already alerted them" Meowth said as he released the duo.

"Alarm? But we didn't hear anything?" Jessie said in confusion.

"I don't know anyone more stupid than you two," Meowth said as he massaged his temples.

The duo just looked at him in confusion.

"The silent alarm idiots!" Meowth said angrily.

Before they could say anything else a voice through a megaphone disturbed them.

"Team Rocket, your surrounded! Now come out peacefully or we'll apprehend you forcefully!" an officer yelled out.

Meowth sighed before saying, "That's why I wanted to do this quietly but nooo you two just had to be flashy!"

"It worked didn't it?" James said.

"I wanted to do this quietly so the cops wouldn't know it was Team Rocket! Now we're in deep shit because of you two" Meowth said angrily.

"Well, whatever just release the Pokémons to stall the cops while we steal the ones here," Meowth said.

"Umm Meowth I don't think Ekans or Koffing have enough power to take on the cops and their Pokémons," James said matter of factly.

Meowth just stared at them as if they were the most stupid, idiotic, moronic people in the entire world.

"Release the dam Pokémons HQ gave us!" Meowth yelled angrily.

Jessie and James quickly remembered that they indeed were given Pokémons from HQ to help them in this mission. So they took out a total of 6 Pokeballs with the letter R engraved in them. (A/N: it's the poke balls they used in sun and moon or the new season)

"Come on out!" James said and soon enough the lobby of the Pokémon center was illuminated by six blinding flashes of light.

The Pokémons that appeared were Drapion, Tyranitar, Aggron, Persserker, Lickylicky, and a Garbodor. All of them had a strange device in their chest areas.

Jessie and James stood back in fear at the Pokémons in front of them, except Meowth.

"All right you five!" Meowth said pointing at Drapion, Tyranitar, Aggron, Persserker, and Licklylicky.

"Go and stall the cops outside while we steal all the Pokémons here, but first," Meowth was saying but then disappeared in a burst of speed and when he reappeared, he had a satisfied smirk on his face.

The Nurse, Mikasa, and Misty saw in freighting awe as the strange device on the Pokémons chests were turning on, if the red shining orb in the device was anything to go by. The Pokémons starting to snarl and get angry.

"Cause as much chaos as you want," Meowth said in a sadistic matter.

The Pokémons nodded and ran towards the outside to engage the VCPD and their police Pokémons. All that remained with Team Rocket was Garbodor.

Soon enough everyone inside the Pokémon Center could hear the battle that had started outside the building.

"Now then pretty lady, like what my idiotic companion was saying. Give us all the Pokémons you have here otherwise things will get messy" Meowth said as he was already in front of Nurse Joy and Chansey with his claws extended in a threatening manner.

Mikasa and Misty were not about to let this happen

Mikasa looked at Luxray who, even though was injured, nodded at the girls.

Luxray then cloaked himself in lightning before darting straight to Meowth, However, Meowth was able to see Luxray in time to be able to dodge him.

"Hmm, what's this now?" Meowth said in amusement than anger.

"We won't let you take any of the Pokémons here!" Misty said as she still held her brother.

"Nurse Joy please go and transfer the Pokémons to any other Pokémon Center, so they won't get any from here," Mikasa said as she held on to her brother.

"Please also take my and Misty's brother to wherever you're going and lock yourselves in there. Don't worry we'll stop them somehow" Mikasa said in an almost plea.

"Of course hand him over to me and hand the child to Chansey! I know she can carry him" Nurse Joy said with Chansey nodding.

As they were about to do that Meowth yelled out "as if I'd let you do that!"

They both saw that Meowth was coming to attack them with his Shadow Claw.

"Tiger, Take Down!" Mikasa ordered to which Luxray nodded and dashed at Meowth.

"Garbodor!" Meowth yelled out as he stopped, still with his shadow claw, and then jumped up to dodge Luxray.

Garbodor then moved surprisingly fast with his own Take-Down and afterward both charging Pokémon smashed into each other and were in a power struggle to push the other back.

However, since Luxray was hurt and Garbador was stronger because he was fresh and the device on his chest, Garbador was starting to push him back.

"Tiger, Crunch, and then Iron Tail!" Mikasa ordered but then looked at Nurse Joy who was carrying Eren on her back, "Go, Nurse!"

"Right! You two be careful! Let's go Chansey!" Nurse Joy said as she and Chansey ran off.

Luxray, since he was close to Garbador, used his Crunch attack to bite Garbador's body.

Garbador grunted in pain but held strong. Luxray saw this and got ready for his Iron Tail. His Iron Tail might not be as strong as Azami's but it was enough for Garbador.

However, Garbador saw this coming and before Luxray's Iron Tail hit him he grabbed the Iron Tail with his own Iron Claw.

Luxray, Misty, and Mikasa's eyes widened at how Luxray was stopped.

"Hehehe you really underestimate us don't you?" Meowth said.

Before they could react Garbador used his free hand to deliver a devastating Drain Punch to Luxray's side. Luxray's eyes widened in pain because of the impact and felt as some of his energy was being sucked up by Garbador.

Garbador didn't stop and fired his Gunk Shot straight at Luxray that poisoned him.

"Tiger!" Mikasa yelled out in worry.

"Dam it!" Misty cursed at how useless she was being.

Luxray was covered in Garbador's attack and a poison hue appeared on his face. He was already injured from protecting the kids and Garbador's attack only injured him more. He could barely stand but did so to protect Misty and Mikasa,

Suddenly a shadow, which was Garbador, covered Luxray.

Meowth smirked, Mikasa looked worried, Misty looked in frustration, Jessi and James looked terrified, and Luxray looked in defiance.

Suddenly they were all shook when a large explosion was heard right outside the Pokémon Center.

"Shit! Garbador end this already on go help out the other five outside!" Meowth ordered.

Garbador nodded and before Luxray could react he grabbed Luxray and held him with one of his arms.

Luxray tried to break free, but he was just too injured to try to escape, Garbador was grabbing him too hard. On the other hand, Garbador charged a powerful Focus Blast before firing it directly at Luxray's midsection.

Luxray's eyes widened as he was impacted by the attack.

"Tiger!" Mikasa yelled out.

The attack had sent him flying towards the doors of the center. He had been sent flying so fast that he had shattered the glass doors and crashed outside into a Pokémon.

"Hahaha! End him Garbador!" Meowth said before retracting his claws and looking at Misty and Mikasa, "While I kill these two little sluts."

Garbador nodded before slowly walking towards the outside.

"I won't let you hurt him!" this time Misty yelled out as she ran to try and somehow stop Garbador.

"You two stop her!" Meowth yelled out to Jessie and James.

Said people were cowering in a corner at the sight of the sadistic talking Meowth. When they first were first told that the legendary, inside team rocket, Meowth would be joining them on this mission they had been excited! The reason why is because in their eyes they were finally being recognized by the master by putting one of the top agents with them. However, now they were completely terrified of him because of his sadism and enjoyment of watching other people/Pokémons getting hurt.

This was the Meowth known through all of the Kanto region as "the wicked Nekomata" of Team Rocket.

"I said to stop them! Otherwise, I'll fucking slash your necks with my claws!" Meowth ordered in anger.

Jessie and James, in fear for their lives, did as told and went to stop Misty.

Mikasa saw that Misty was in danger and acted without thinking. There was a jolt in her brain and before she knew it she was running at incredible speeds that no human could go to, especially a child. (A/N: Ackerman power. Yeah it's a thing here too)

Misty was about to be tackled down hard by Jessi and James but Mikasa had appeared out of nowhere and smacked both of them on their midsection with an open palm strike.

Meowth saw this and simply muttered, "Interesting."

Jessie and James were on their knees trying to catch their breath and in pain. Mikasa then carried Misty bridal style back to the front desk in the Pokémon Center.

"Why did I feel so safe in her arms?" Misty thought when Mikasa dropped her down next to her. There was also a slight redness on her cheeks.

Mikasa had also stood protectively in front of her. That only made Misty blush a little bit more.

Misty then shook her head to get rid of those thoughts.

"Hmm, interesting. What is your last name kid?" Meowth said as he looked at the downed forms of Jessie and James.

"What's it to you?" Mikasa replied.

"Just curious. Now answer me before I kill your little friend there" Meowth said in a dark manner that made Misty shiver.

"My last name is Jager-Ackerman," Mikasa said.

"Ackerman?" Meowth said in surprise to which Mikasa nodded.

"Hahahahahahahahah! Ackerman! I thought you were all dead! That insane brat is going to be ecstatic knowing there's still a few Ackerman's left!" Meowth said excitedly.

"What are you talking about? What do you know of my family?" Mikasa demanded.

"What don't I know kid is the better question? I know more about you Ackermans than you since I used to work with one!" Meowth told Mikasa but muttered quietly to himself, "I was also there when most of them were killed. Hehehe I killed quite a few of them myself."

"You did?" Mikasa asked not hearing Meowth's last statement.

"Uh-Hu and he is even more impressive than you since he's already older and is in full control of that mysterious strength and speed all you Ackerman's have. Do you think I'm sadistic? Girl that man puts me and Ariana to shame with his level of sadism. Even his Pokémons are as vicious as him" Meowth told the young girl.

Mikasa did hear Meowth but her mind was completely focused on who this Ackerman guy was and if he was somehow related to her.

None of them noticed that a combined Hyper Beam attack was deflected upwards.

"Well, whatever, you'll both die here so I really don't care," Meowth said before looking at the still downed forms of Jessie and James, "I do congratulate you on bringing those two idiots down."

Suddenly Meowth got a dark look on his face before saying, "However, I'm not like them."

Suddenly both of Meowth's paws were covered in a Shadow Claw and afterward made a mad rush jump towards Mikasa and Misty with the intent to kill them.

Misty hid behind Mikasa while said girl brought her arms out to protect her friend.

"DIE!" Meowth yelled as it charged at Mikasa who was protecting Misty.

Just before the Meowth could reach the kids, a figure appeared out of thin air and just in front of them, stopped him with what appeared to be a night slash attack.

"What the?" Meowth said as he struggled for control.

Misty and Mikasa knew immediately who it was that had stopped Meowth.

"Ash!" they both said in relief.

Ash smiled at them a confident smile before saying, "sorry I'm late guys."

(Flashback end)

(Present Time)

"What are you doing you brat!" Meowth said as he tried to push back Seviper.

"Oh? A talking Pokémon? Not a psychic but true to Arceus talking Pokémon" Ash said intrigued.

Azami inwardly smiled, Mikasa shook her head, and Misty just looked at Ash astonished that he would be thinking that in the situation they were in.

Meowth however was thinking, as he looked at the kid next to Seviper, "I've seen eyes like that before. From where though?"

"Azami, head but" Ash ordered.

Azami, still with her night slash on her tail, reeled her head back.

"Oh, you want to play like that?" Meowth said as he released his attack, dodged night slash, and reeled his head back for his own head but. However, his was a little different.

Azami felt danger as both heads were about to collide. So without even thinking about it the "Armament" she had used on her Zangetsu Iron tail, manifested on her forehead. (A/N: Like Luffy)

When both attacks collided it was as if a bell had been rung right in front of the kids. A loud GONG sound was heard that made the kids cover their ears and even broke any glass in the Pokémon Center.

"What! She can use Armament!?" Meowth thought in surprise.

"Why is his skull so tough? It's as if I'm hitting steel!" Azami thought.

The struggle lasted for a bit but then they both separated as their attacks canceled each other out.

Meowth however didn't let up and used his Fake out attack to hit Seviper.

Azami was caught off guard and flinched to which Meowth took advantage.

"Hierro" Meowth thought while smirking and using his Iron Tail.

"Azami use Iron tail too!" Ash ordered.

Azami readied her Iron Tail but as she saw Meowth ready to smack her, she felt that same feeling as she did with the head but. So reacting instinctively her "Armament" again activated on her Iron Tail.

Both attacks again collided with each other but this time Azami was struggling to keep Meowth back.

"What is that? His Iron Tail is so heavy and strong" Azami thought.

"This must be the first time she encounters someone that can use Hierro," Meowth thought as he smirked at Azami's surprised face.

"Well, I'm not only good at that" Meowth thought then opened his mouth.

"Azami watch out!" Ash said as he saw what Meowth was doing.

However, Azami reacted too late and was shot straight in the face with a Shadow Ball. The attack had pushed her back.

Meowth still wasn't done and was already on her with his Body Slam, with an added of Hierro.

"Azami, thunderbolt!" Ash ordered.

Azami reacted quickly and fired a thunderbolt straight at Meowth.

"What?! How can a Seviper use thunderbolt?!" Meowth said as he dodged the thunderbolt.

Ash and Azami took advantage of Meowth's shock to continue their attack.

"Thunderpunch, Azami!" Ash said as he pointed at Meowth who was looking at him as if he was stupid.

Azami bolted towards Meowth with her tail covered in lightning with her modified Thunderpunch.

"What!" Meowth yelled in shock.

Azami smacked Meowth right in his gut and was electrocuted for his troubles as well.

Ash smirked, Mikasa and Misty looked in awe at the power of Azami, Jessie and James looked in shock as one of the strongest agents of Team Rocket had been hit.

Azami's attack sent Meowth flying was towards and then crashing towards the Pokémon Center wall.

"Azami end this, Iron Smash!" Ash said.

Azami, who was huffing, launched at Meowth with a heavier version of her Iron Tail. She raised her Iron Tail up and brought it down onto Meowth.

"Guaahh!" Meowth yelled in pain as he was hit full force.

"Ash, don't you think you're going too far?" Misty asked the violet-eyed boy.

"I agree with her Ash," Mikasa said.

"No, look," Ash said as he pointed at Meowth.

The girls looked to where Meowth was but instead of seeing the injured form of him, they saw a substitute.

"Wait? Is that?" Misty said but Ash finished for her.

"Substitute," Ash said.

"You know your stuff brat!" Meowth said as he appeared right behind Ash to slash his face with his Slash attack.

Azami turned around but she knew she wasn't going to make it in time.

"Ash watch out!" Misty said in freight.

Ash turned around and all he could say was, "Crap."

However, one who acted quickly, since she was close to Ash, was Mikasa.

Just right before Meowth could slash Ash, Mikasa stopped him by smacking Meowth's hand away and then holding him to the ground. (A/N: The same way she stopped Armin from hitting Eren)

Everyone inside the Pokémon Center was shocked at what the ten-year-old girl had just done. However, instead of being shocked or even angry; Meowth just laughed.

"Hehehehehehe so that Ackerman strength isn't just for tell huh? I can already hear him laughing at me" Meowth said in pain as he struggled to get free.

"I don't know what you're talking about but you better not move otherwise I'll break your arm off!" Mikasa said as she pulled more.

Azami was able to get to Ash to protect him.

"Thank you, Mikasa," Ash said in relief.

"Amazing" Misty thought as she looked at Mikasa but again another blush appeared on her face. Misty shook her head to get rid of said blush.

"You two help me now!" Meowth yelled at Jessie and James.

Jessie and James obeyed and released their Pokémons to help out Meowth.

The forms of Ekans and Koffing appeared to help out Meowth.

"Azami" Ash simply said.

Azami, even though she was a bit injured, still look intimidating to the smaller Pokémons.

They retreated in fright and hid behind Jessie and James.

"Useless all of you!" Meowth said in anger, "I swear to Arceus I will have both your heads when I make it out of this."

Jessie, James, and their Pokémons cowered in fear in a corner.

"What makes you think you'll get out of this?" Ash said and then looked at the entrance of the Pokémon Center, "The police are already taking control of the situation outside and they'll be in soon enough to take you in."

"That's right. You'll be locked away forever!" Misty said.

They all looked at Meowth but they felt something different from him.

"Hahahahahaha! Do you think you've caught me?! ME?! You brats have no idea who you're dealing with!" Meowth said in craziness.

Meowth's whole body then began to shine that electric color they all knew.

"Mikasa get out of there!" Ash said in worry.

Mikasa was going to be shocked if it wasn't for Azami that had grabbed her with her tail to get her out of there.

Meowth, now free but with a slightly broken arm, went towards Jessie and James.

"Brats, you will know why you don't mess with me!" Meowth said in anger but then he turned towards the pair, "Give it to me."

"What?" they both said.

"I said give it to me," Meowth said again and at their still confused face only got angrier, "the shot you dammed idiots!"

They understood what he wanted so Jessie took out a syringe and gave it to Meowth. It was a big syringe but the most noticeable part of it was the strange liquid inside of it.

It was a pinkish black liquid.

"What is that?" was the thought on everyone's mind.

Before he could do anything else the police that was outside had rushed into the Pokémon Center. They had been able to subdue the Pokémons rampaging outside.

"VCPD! Stand still Team Rocket otherwise, we'll attack!" Officer Jenny said as she, and her officers, had their Pokémons ready to attack.

Jessie and James had their hands up in surrender.

Meowth on the other hand just looked at everyone around him and smirked because of the foolishness of these humans.

"They really think they got me huh? Please I've dealt with worse and escaped from worse," Meowth thought but then looked at the syringe before thinking, "Well let's see how Namba's and Zager's shot work. Hehe, this will be interesting."

"Hehehehehehe! Hahahahahahah! Now all of you will know the true terror and a glimpse of one of our secret weapons!" Meowth said in madness as he was about to inject himself.

Ash's eyes widened, not because of Meowth, but because all of the officer's Pokémons were about to fire their attacks at Meowth.

"We need cover!" Ash thought in alarm.

Ash then saw that Jessie, James, and their Pokémons had not moved.

"They're going to get hit!" Ash thought before looking at Azami, "Azami!"

However, Azami was not listening to Ash and was simply staring at the syringe on Meowths hand, but most importantly the liquid inside it.

"Is that?" Azami thought but then Ash yelled for her again.

"Azami!" Ash said and once he got Azami's attention, "Get them!"

Azami looked to where Ash was pointing, then looked back at him with a "Really?" expression on her face.

"Yes really! Use Sonido!" Ash said.

Azami just did as told and disappeared in a blur of speed.

"We need to get behind the counter!" Ash told Misty and Mikasa.

"Right!" they both said.

With Ash, they all jumped behind the counter.

Meowth then injected himself with the syringe with the strange liquid in it.

"Fire!" Officer Jenny shouted to her men while thinking, "Sorry Nurse Joy."

All of the police Pokémons fired their attacks at Meowth who only looked down while a shadow covered his eyes.

Jessie, James, and their Pokémons only cowered as the attacks were heading for them. That is until the kid's Seviper appeared right in front of them.

Azami looked at the trio of cowards before wrapping them with her tail and then disappearing in speed.

Azami disappeared just in time because soon after the attacks fired by the police Pokémons impacted Meowth and a mini-explosion occurred inside the Pokémon Center.

Azami, after leaving Jessie, James, and their Pokémons behind the counter with Ash, Misty, and Mikasa, stood protectively in front of them.

"Hold your fire!" Jenny shouted to stop her men.

The blast had resulted in a big cloud of dust and little debris.

The kids and team rocket members peeked over the counter to see what happened.

Everyone waited in anticipation to see what happened to Meowth. When the dust settled what they saw startled all of them.

Instead of Meowth being knocked out or incapacitated as they thought, there was a pitch-black dome where Meowth was. Inside that pitch blackness, two dark red eyes opened up. Afterward, an evil smile with razor-sharp teeth appeared under the red eyes.

A chill ran down through everyone's spines at those evil-filled red eyes were looking at them. Even the normally calm Ash began to sweat. Even Azami gulped nervously.

"Show yourself Meowth!" Officer Jenny shouted, her Arcanine growling at Meowth.

Meowth's eyes rose in amusement at the pathetic human who had ordered him. He gave them an evil smile with all his sharp teeth.

"You heard the chief! Get-" an officer yelled out before he felt a cut on his neck.

"What?" the same officer said.

More blood started appearing on the officer's neck until his head literally fell from his head and blood gushed from his body. All the while the now dead officer's head had an expression of "what happened?"

"Sado!" one of the other officers yelled out.

Misty, Jessie, and James were horrified at what they saw. Meanwhile, Mikasa and Ash looked on with unreadable expressions. Ash's eyes were trying to analyze the whole situation. Azami was prepared for anything.

"What the distortion!" Jenny cursed.

Then without anyone noticing the Pokémon of the beheaded officer cried out in pain. They all turned and saw that through the Pokémon head, downwards, there was a blade that had impaled it.

"What the?" "Oh, My Arceus" "What is he?" "What is that Dark smoke around him?" "Are those?" were some of the many things the officers were saying.

Jenny was shocked at what she was seeing.

"What is going on," Misty said as she for some reason grabbed Mikasa's arm.

"Ash..." Mikasa said not paying heed to Misty grabbing her arm.

"I don't know what is happening but what I do know is that whatever happened to him it had something to do with what he injected into himself," Ash said as he continued analyzing the situation at hand.

Azami was just waiting for Ash's orders.

"You two!" Ash said to the Team Rocket duo, "what's happening to him? What was that shot?"

"We don't know! We swear! All we know is that that shot was to be given to Meowth if the situation got out of hand, or if he ordered us too" James said as he hugged his koffing.

"Only the head scientists, the admins, and the master know what that shot is," Jessie said, her Ekans behind her.

Ash sighed in annoyance.

They were all interrupted when they heard Meowth Laughing maniacally.

"Hahahahahah! So this is how it feels like!" Meowth said before looking at his blade arms, "I feel so much power running through me!" (A/N: He has a distorted voice that's why it's in bold)

Right before Jenny could give an order Meowth disappeared in a burst of speed but then reappeared right in front of Jenny herself.

Even though he was shorter than her, she still felt scared for her life at seeing the Pokémon. Its blade arms were dripping with blood. (A/N: They're like Bisharps but wider. I'll explain soon.)

Meowth smirked at her.

Suddenly out of nowhere deep slash cuts appeared on all her men and their Pokémons. Even her Arcanine was sent smashing towards one of the walls.

"What?" Jenny said as she saw all her men and their partner Pokémons collapse on the floor unconscious with slash marks on their chest areas.

Her focus went back to Meowth when he spoke to her.

"Don't worry, they are not dead. All I wanted to show you was that I could easily take down all of you," Meowth said but then pointed his Blade arm at Jenny, "You however will die today."

Meowth then jumped at her to slash her head off.

The kids and Rocket duo's eyes were wide in fear for the officer.

Ash was about to give his order to Azami to protect Officer Jenny before a heat missile passed by them at full speed.

As Meowth was mere centimeters from Jenny's neck, he turned around and smirked when he saw that Arcanine was coming straight at him with his Flame Charge attack.

Jenny saw this as well and managed to pull back in time.

Meowth put his blade arms in an X formed to defend himself as Arcanine smashed into him.

Arcanine tackled Meowth out of the Pokémon Center and into a nearby car.

"Arcanine!" Jenny said as she ran towards the outside.

"Let's go Azami!" Ash says as he jumped over the counter.

"Ash where are you going!" Mikasa said.

"I'm going to give some back up to Officer Jenny just in case she needs it. You saw how powerful that Meowth became" Ash told her.

"But," Mikasa said uncertainly for her friend.

"I'll be okay I promise," Ash said but then pointed at Azami while smirking at Mikasa, "Besides I got Azami with me."

"Alright just be careful," Mikasa said.

Ash nodded before heading off, with Azami on tow, to Officer Jenny.

"Let's go see if Nurse Joy is alright. There were many attacks fired inside here" Mikasa told Misty.

"Right!" Misty yelled as she still held her arm.

Mikasa nodded but before they could head off she remembered the Rocket duo.

"Alright, you….two?" Mikasa was about to say but when she turned she saw that Jessie and James were nowhere to be seen.

"Where did they go?" Misty asked.

"They must have made a run for it when Officer Jenny and Ash ran outside the center" Mikasa deduced correctly.

"Well, whatever let's go!" Misty said.

Mikasa nodded and they both, arms locked together, headed towards Nurse Joy and their brothers.

"You can let go of my arm now you know," Mikasa said.

Misty looked that she was still indeed holding onto Mikasa's arm and quickly let go afterward.

"So-sorry" Misty said with a blush on her face.

"Don't worry about it" Mikasa said as she went on ahead.

Misty was still blushing even after she let go of Mikasa. However, she blushed some more at seeing Mikasa's strong back. Her eyes even drifted downwards a little bit, but before she could even look a little bit lower of Mikasa's back, she slapped both of her cheeks with her palms. That managed to get her back on focus and ran behind Mikasa.

"What is wrong with me?!" Misty thought all the while blushing.

(Outside the Pokémon Center)

Many, but not all, of the People that were around the area immediately, ran away from the ensuing battle.

Arcanine had smashed Meowth into a nearby car.

As Meowth defended he quickly gave a glance at the defeated and charred forms of the Pokémons he had ordered to cause chaos.

"Useless all of you!" Meowth thought angrily.

However, he did give an evil smile when he saw all the destruction they caused.

"Viridian City will remember this night for a long time," Meowth thought before refocusing on Arcanine.

"Time to take care of this mutt! Hahahaha! I can't wait to see the look on your face!" Meowth thought as he smiled at Arcanine.

Arcanine was furious that this little cat had dared attack his chief. He had even killed one of her men and his comrade in arms. He would kill this abomination himself! Laws be dammed! The flame charge got more powerful with his rage fueling it.

However, Meowth continued to smile.

Suddenly out of nowhere, Meowth managed to somehow push back Arcanine.

Arcanine was shocked but he was going to be shocked even more.

Meowth suddenly got in Arcanine's face and once there opened his maw and fired a powerful Hydro Pump straight on Arcanine's face.

"WHAT!" Officer Jenny and Ash both shouted in shock.

"Impossible! How can? Wait. No…no that's impossible! I destroyed all of them!" Azami thought in shock.

A yelp of pain was heard as Arcanine was smashed into a tree by the force of the Hydro Pump. People scattered everywhere.

"Huh? It feels weird" Meowth thought as water dripped from his mouth.

Then said deranged Pokémon disappeared and reappeared over the struggling to stand Arcanine.

Arcanine growled at Meowth, who only smirked at the dog.

Meowth then brought his paws that changed back, in front of him and manifested a rock. He then launched the rock straight to Arcanine's side.

"That's Rock Wrecker!" Ash shouted.

"Arcanine dodge it!" Jenny said in a panicked tone.

Arcanine wasn't fast enough so therefore the rock wrecker smashed into his side breaking a few of his ribs and making him cough blood. He fell down on the floor in pain. However, Meowth wasn't done just yet.

Meowth smashed the ground with one leg and out of it came out a big rock that he soon grabbed and hoisted it over his head.

He then walked over to the bleeding form of Arcanine and once there stood over him with the rock ready to smash it into his skull.

"Noo!" Jenny shouted as she what Meowth was about to do. Then she ran towards her partner in hopes of saving him.

"Azami stop Meowth!" Ash ordered.

Azami nodded but just before she was going to use Sonido, a Bubblebeam and a Swift attack smashed into Meowth's back.

"Who dares!?" Meowth growled in anger as he turned around to see his attackers, after throwing the rock at them.

The Pokémon's dodged the rock throw and they revealed themselves to be an Azumarill and a Scizor with their trainers behind them.

"We won't let you hurt Officer Jenny's Arcanine even more!" one of them shouted.

"Yeah!" the other said.

Azumarill and Scizor nodded and were ready, but they did feel fear at seeing this Meowth. Derived from his look and that shadowy aura around him.

Meowth just looked at them with an impassive look on his face…before smirking at them and disappearing.

"What! Where did he go?!" one trainer shouted as they looked around.

Suddenly Meowth appeared in the middle between Azumarill and Scizor with both his hands stretched out towards them.

Suddenly a large burning ball of fire appeared on the hand pointed to Scizor and another large ball of electricity appeared on the hand pointed to Azumarill.

"Don't mess with me insects!" Meowth yelled in anger as he fired his attacks at both Azumarill and Scizor respectively.

Scizor and Azumarill had no time to dodge and were blasted with the attacks Meowth fired at them. Scizor was burning while Azumarill was being electrocuted. Both yelled in pain while Meowth laughed madly.

"How the Distortion did he dual wield both Incinerate and Zap Cannon in each Arm! He's not even close to being an electric or fire type!" Ash said in absolute shock.

"No! It can't be, but there is no other explanation" Azami thought.

"Azumarill/Scizor!" the trainers yelled out in fright.

Then they flinched when that deranged evil Meowth looked at them.

Meowth then grinned at them before turning his arms again to blades and disappearing.

"Azami, go!" Ash said to which Azami nodded and disappeared.

The two trainers were looking around but couldn't find Meowth anywhere.

"Right here" Meowth whispered behind them.

They turned around and were terrified at the dark visage of Meowth with only his red eyes and blades being noticeable.

"Die!" Meowth roared as he slashed at them with the intent of cutting off their heads.

"CLANG!"

However, that moment never came as when the trainers opened their eyes, they did not even know when they closed them, they saw that a Seviper was stopping Meowth's attack with its sword? Tail? Iron Tail?

"Oh?" Meowth said as his blades were being blocked by this Seviper's Iron Tail?

"Why does it look like an actual sword? I know they have sword-like tails, but this is something else," Meowth thought as the struggle continued, "In fact, this Seviper has surprised me a lot. How is it, that it can do those moves? Why does she seem familiar?"

"I won't let you hurt anyone anymore!" Azami said in Pokespeech while trying to push Meowth back.

"You two get out of there!" Ash yelled to the two stunned trainers.

"What?" they both said confused.

"Get out of here now! return your Pokémons and go!" Ash said in an authoritative voice.

"Right!" they both said and soon darted off after returning their Pokémons.

Ash then turned back to the battle at hand to give orders to Seviper.

"This is going to be a hard-fought battle, but we have to hold until the gym leader or anyone from the Leagues comes here." Ash thought but suddenly fell to the floor after feeling intense pressure everywhere. (a/n: Bleach Spiritual Pressure)

"What is this pressure?" Ash said as he barely raised his head to look at Azami's battle. His eyes widened because Azami was being pushed back by Meowth, whose dark aura was getting bigger. As it grew the pressure grew.

"If this pressure isn't stopped, I'm going to pass out," Ash said and as he tried to look around, he saw that not only Officer Jenny had passed out but everyone that was around observing the battle had passed out on the street.

The only ones remaining standing were Ash, barely, and Azami.

"Dam it" Ash cursed on all fours.

With the battle at hand Azami was beginning to pant and sweat as the pressure this evil Meowth was emitting was becoming too much to handle for her. However, she needed to push on. Otherwise, if she passed out Ash and everyone would be in danger.

"How is he producing this pressure? It has to involve that shot somehow and the dark aura around him." Azami thought as she was being pushed back more from Meowth's blade arms. Even her tail was beginning to shake from the applied pressure.

"It does… "Mewtwo" Azami heard Meowth's voice in her mind.

Azami's eyes widened even more at that name that only those men called her. Her shock expression never left Meowth's form.

"How?" Azami said in shock.

Meowth smirked but also took advantage of that shock and slightly moved back which caused Azami's zangetsu to shake back as the pressure was off.

Meowth then changed back one of his arms to normal while the other one was still in its bladed form. Then he put more power into it and the blade was engulfed in a dark aura. It had turned completely black and radiated nothing but malice.

"I always wanted to try out the signature move of those swords of justice. Hehe, it'll be fun for once not being the one on the receiving end of this move. Next time I see them I'll use this move against them. Just imaging their shocked and pissed-off expressions send shivers down my spine." Meowth thought and once his attack was ready used it against the shocked Azami.

"Azami watch out!" Ash yelled at her.

Azami was brought out off her train of thought too late as Meowth was already at her side with his attack. Her zangetsu raced to where Meowth was going to land his attack.

"Guh!" cried out with blood on her mouth as the attack hit her on her ribs and sent her flying off towards Viridian Park.

On her way, Azami broke through many trees before crash landing on the open area of the park. A large cloud of dust appeared from the impact.

"Azami!" Ash yelled out as he ran to his friend.

Meowth saw the kid run towards that Seviper. He could kill that brat but for some reason or another did not. Then he began looking at his bladed arm, still infused with his dark aura. For once during this whole ordeal, he analyzed himself and the area around him. He smirked when he saw that everyone who was here had been knocked out just by the pressure, he was emitting.

Now he could kill everyone who was knocked out but decided against it. Not out of the goodness of his heart but because he wouldn't be able to enjoy the screams of pain and despair as he slowly took their lives away. All the begging and crying only made sent another shiver down his spine.

"They really did outdo themselves," Meowth thought as he continued examining and feeling all the power in his body.

However, his body was beginning to twitch here and there, and he was beginning to have a severe migraine from all the pressure in his body. He was using his full concentration to keep up.

"Well, they did say it wasn't fully perfected yet," Meowth said.

"Well, whatever, time to end this. Won't be long before the gym leader or the ACE trainers get here. However, that would be an interesting battle" Meowth then smiled at how lucky he was at finding 'their Mewtwo.'

"The master is going to be pleased. Shame I can't kill her" Meowth said but then sighed but just before he disappeared, he said, "though she be stronger though."

(Viridian Park)

"Azami, Azami where are you?!" Ash yelled out as he looked around.

Suddenly he heard a cry of pain, and afterward, he turned and saw Azami inside a small crater she created from the impact. He had also seen that she had broken through a myriad of tress on her way.

"Azami are you okay?" Ash said once he found her. However, after a quick look over he saw that she wasn't okay.

All over her body were many bruises from the trees she broke through but the biggest one, which was already purple, were Meowth landed his attack.

"Her rib section. They must have been injured from the attack" Ash thought but stopped as he gave a look at Azami's mouth which blood was coming out from, "My Arceus she must have severe internal bleeding from that attack. Dam it Ash why couldn't you bring a potion."

"It's 'cough cough' okay Ash. It could have been worse. I would have been cut in half if I hadn't blocked it with Zangetsu" Azami told Ash telepathically.

"No, it doesn't matter Azami! You are hurt! It's all my fault for being a horrible trainer" Ash said in anger but mostly to himself.

"Ash" Azami was about to say but was stopped when she and Ash felt that same pressure from before.

This time however it was bigger and was pushing them hard down.

"I got to say that Namba and Zager really outdid themselves this time with that shot," Meowth said as he appeared over them.

Azami shot a glare towards Meowth but then widened when Ash stood protectively in front of her.

"What are you!? What do you want with us?!" Ash yelled out at the Meowth.

"I was planning on killing you both for intervening but now I'm only going to kill you kid and bring back that Seviper to the master," Meowth said.

"Why do you want Azami!" Ash said.

"None of your business brat!" Meowth yelled out as dashed at them with a Sky uppercut to begin his assault.

Ash closed his eyes but didn't move from where he was.

"No!" Azami yelled out as she wrapped her, injured, tail around Ash and tossed him aside.

"Azami!" Ash yelled out as he was tossed aside.

Azami was too late as the moment she let Ash go she was smacked straight in the jaw by Meowth's Sky Uppercut and was sent flying upwards from the impact.

However, Meowth was not done because once she was upward, he grabbed the tail end and shortly after began to puny Arceus her.

Once he was done, he let her go and jumped. Once airborne, he gave a spin and landed on Azami with a Flying press enhanced even more by Hierro, making Meowth heavier.

Azami vomited blood the moment Meowth landed because he had crushed her.

"I got to say that you're a disappointment. I expected much more from Team Flare's Mewtwo" Meowth said in a disappointing matter.

"How... you 'cough' now?" Azami said as blood poured out her mouth.

"Hehehe, there is nothing I don't know kid. I'm not only known in Kanto but also in the other 7 regions. The other Leagues as well as Aqua, Magma, Galactic, Plazma, Flare, and even those freaks of Yell know who I am. I'm infamously renowned in the criminal underground. So, knowing about the little experiment of Team Flare was no problem for me. It also helps that I and my partner are the masters' top agents" Meowth said as he smugly looked at Azami.

"I destroyed all of them" Azami hissed trying to move her injured body.

"You weren't as throughout as you thought snake. There was one vile left and from that Zager and Namba were able to experiment on it and mass produce it for us in Team Rocket! They also added something special in it and ooohhh does it feel awesome!" Meowth said in glee as his power kept growing.

However, as Meowth was ranting Azami had been charging the Psychic energy in the air around her tail to use a powerful Psycho Cut.

"Keep... talking," Azami thought as she was almost done charging.

"Zager and Namba are going to have the time of their lives opening you up" Meowth evilly said.

"I don't think so!" Azami yelled out as she swung her tail at Meowth for Psycho Cut.

In an Astonishing feat, Meowth stopped her tail end with his paw before grabbing it. Then, after smirking at Seviper, broke some of the bones of her tail because he was crushing it.

"Ahhh!" Azami yelled out in pain feeling her bones break.

Meowth was just loving hearing her cries of pain.

"Azami! No!" Ash yelled out as he was running at them.

"Ash no!" Azami hissed through the pain but since she was pokespeaking, he didn't understand her.

At hearing Seviper's cry for the kid Meowth smirked. Oh, he knew how he was going to break her. What he was going to do was going to hurt her more than whatever bruise he could give her.

Azami saw Meowth's expression change from her to Ash and her eyes widened in fear.

"Don't you dare! Do whatever you want with me but leave him!" Azami yelled out as she brought her head up to bite at Meowth with her Poison fang.

Meowth saw this a mile away and was prepared for it by delivering a devastating brick break to Azami's head. The attack had also smashed Azami's head into the ground below.

"Azami! No!" Ash yelled out.

"No…Ash, run" Azami said barely clinging to consciousness.

"You couldn't save him. His death will be on you" Meowth whispered to Azami before disappearing.

"No…. Ash" Azami said as her consciousness was slowly fading.

Her last visage was that of Meowth raising his dark-bladed arm to Ash.

"Dam it," Azami thought in anger as she passed out.

However, just as her eyes closed, she never saw a figure materialize behind Meowth and a bunch of ACE trainers and none other than the Viridian City Gym Leader appear.

(A Few Moments Ago)

"No, Azami!" Ash yelled out in a worried tone as he saw Azami's head smashed to the ground by a Brick Break.

"Dam it! Why am I so useless?! Azami could easily beat this bastard Meowth!" Ash thought in anger but most at himself for not giving proper directions to Azami.

Azami had been toyed by Meowth, she had no chance on using most of her attacks, combo attacks, or even her Gear forms. He had blamed that on how Meowth had shocked them by doing the impossible. Even still Ash blamed himself for not getting over his shock quickly and focusing on the battle.

Even right now Ash couldn't clearly think as his brain was entirely covered by fear for Azami.

The normally calm, cool, and collected young man had been reduced to a worrying mess by that twisted Meowth.

"Dam it! I hope to Arceus the League has sent any ACE trainer! Where is the gym leader?!" Ash said as he ran to Azami.

However, before he could take any more steps, he fell on his butt as the dark form of Meowth appeared in front of him.

"Well, well, what do we have here? A little brat trying to play hero?" Meowth said as he chuckled at the end.

Ash quelled all his fear down and looked back at Meowth fearlessly. His violet eyes defiantly looking at Meowth.

"Oh, I can sense no fear from you kid," Meowth said but then paused before squinting his eyes at Ash and then saying, "However, I know I've seen eyes like yours somewhere else, but I just can pinpoint from were."

"What is he talking about? What do my eyes have to do with anything?" Ash was thinking but then from the corner of his right eye saw that Meowth's body was begging to twitch.

"Why is he twitching? Wait he's also sweating. Could it be that the effects of that shot are running out?" Ash thought as he looked at Meowth carefully.

Indeed, Meowth's body was slightly but surely beginning to twitch from everywhere and even his forehead was drenched in sweat. He could even see that Meowth's eyes were starting to sag and that the red glow that had filled them up was starting to fade.

"He's almost worn out! That shot must be experimental. His body is not used to that much dark power flowing through it. Should I bring out Katsuki or Yuki to battle him? No no no Ash what you are thinking is dumb. Yuki is still a child and Katsuki is too weak to battle" Ash thought but was brought out when Meowth began to speak again.

"Well, whatever. You are going to die here anyway" Meowth said before again forming his Dark Sacred Sword on his Right Arm, "Any last words kid?"

"Fuck You" Ash simply said as he also flipped off Meowth.

"Hahaha, awesome last words brat" Meowth yelled out as he brought down his sacred sword to Ash to kill him.

"I'm sorry mom, Kirlia, Happiny, Professor Oak, Eren, Mikasa, Gary, Yuki. Katsuki…. Azami. This is it for me" Ash thought in acceptance as he saw the attack heading for him. He had closed his eyes waiting for the end.

However, that end never came but he did hear a deep but powerful voice.

"I think that will be enough," a voice said.

"So, you finally decided to show up huh? Took you long enough…. Giovanni" Ash heard Meowth said.

At the mention of that name Ash immediately opened his eyes and sure enough, standing right behind Mewoth was a Rhyperior holding back his attack with his arm by literally grabbing the bladed arm.

Right behind Rhyperior was the Viridian City Gym Leader and Elite Four candidate Giovanni in his signature orange suit and with his ever-present scowl on his face. He was also flanked by his powerful Nidoking and Nidoqueen right next to those powerhouses were also his Kangahskan, Garchomp, and his widely known Persian.

Ash also looked around and saw that a total of six ACE trainers had released their elite teams and had surrounded Meowth. (A/N: Imagine any strong team and go with that for the ACE trainers)

"By the order of the Indigo League and Champion Lance, you are under arrest Meowth of Team Rocket aka 'Wicked Nekomata'" the ACE captain said with his Noivern growling at Meowth.

"You heard the man Meowth. Surrender yourself, otherwise, I have permission from Lance to terminate you" Giovanni said with his Pokémons getting ready.

Meowth smirked even though he was surrounded. However, his thoughts differed from his smirk, "Shit I need to get out of here. I can feel the power leaving me too quickly."

"The brat!" Meowth said as he saw that Ash hadn't moved.

It was not to be as Ash was picked up by a sprinting Dodrio and taken with the rest of the ACE trainers.

"I saw that coming a mile away Meowth. You need to do better than that. Now this will be your last warning surrender or face death" Giovanni said.

"Tsk" Meowth tsked in annoyance. His Scared Sword still held by Rhyperior.

If only the power wasn't leaving him, he could have used his pressure to submit the ACE trainers. He knew it would have done nothing to Giovanni or his team but with that power, he would have been able to take them on and possibly escape.

Now though he was out of options.

"Dam it, what do I do? I'd kill myself before surrendering to these bastards! I can't do that though. The master still needs me" Meowth was thinking while desperately looking for a way out.

As he was frantically looking around for anything to use as his escape. From the corner of his eyes, he caught a news chopper flying over them.

"That's it," Meowth thought.

(With Ash)

Ash was confused, but relieved, at the same time as he was being dragged away from the battle by a speedy Dodrio.

As he looked behind him, he saw that Meowth was being held by not just any Ryhperior but by the Ryhperior of the Viridian City Gym Leader Giovanni.

Meowth was also surrounded by a whole squadron of ACE trainers.

"Bring him over here Dodrio!" an ACE trainer shouted.

Dodrio did as told and brought the young boy to the elite trainer that was already nursing Azami.

"Azami!" Ash shouted as he freed himself from the Dodrio and ran to Azami.

"Woah kid calm down!" the ACE trainer told Ash.

Ash realized he was making a scene that would help no one and was only embarrassing him.

"I'm sorry Sir, I'm just worried about my Pokémon. She's my starter" Ash said as he rubbed Azami's bloodied head.

"She's your starter? Quite an odd choice for a starter here in Kanto" the ACE trainer said nonchalantly but at Ash's glare backed off.

"Nothing wrong with the choice but just different. Anyway, don't worry, your Seviper will be okay. I've already used a full restore on her. Also," the ACE Trainer said but paused as he looked at Azami who was healing?

"For some reason, your Seviper seems to be healing by herself. Almost, as if she was using a combination of Recover and Synthesis" the ACE trainer said as he looked thoughtfully at the strange Seviper.

"I was told by professor Oak that probably one of her ancestors might have been a Psychic and a grass type. That's why she can heal herself. The only strange thing is that it only happens when she's asleep or passes out" Ash explained while the elite trainer bought his excuse on the fly.

"Well, if the good professor says so then it's okay! Ain't that right Dodrio?" the ACE Trainer said as he gave Ash a thumb up and nudged Dodrio.

The Dodrio squawked in agreement.

"Just to be sure we'll take her to the Pokémon Center," the trainer said.

"Thank you, sir," Ash said as he bowed his head to the kind man. However, once he heard of the Pokémon Center he asked for his friends.

"Sir-" Ash was about to say but the ACE beat him.

"Don't worry kid. The Pokémon Center and its surrounding area are secure. Your friends, those two girls with Nurse Joy, are safe and sound and guarded by some more of us. The cops that were passed out are already being taken to the hospital for attendance. Jenny and her Arcanine as well. The Pokémons that had been rampaging have been secured by us" the trainer was saying.

"Wait, there was a Luxray there too but he," Ash said thinking they were taking Luxray away on the mistake of him being part of the rampaging Pokémons.

"Was that girl…Mikasa I believe, Pokémon? Yeah, we know" the ACE said,

"How?" Ash questioned as he continued rubbing Azami's healing head.

"She jujitsu flipped one of us when we were going to take her Luxray. If that isn't any indication of the ownership of that Luxray then I don't know what is" he told Ash.

"Right," Ash said with a sweatdrop.

Ash then remembered that unfortunate officer who Meowth had killed.

"What about that officer?" Ash said in a sad tone but with a scowl but for Meowth.

"He's dead. There's nothing we can do about that. His remains will be given to his family later by our captain. If only we'd gotten here earlier, his death and all of this could have been avoided" the ACE trainer said in anger with his fist tightened.

Both remained in silence and gave a mental prayer for that poor soul.

"What happened with that? I'm to assume that the League has many Alakazams that can teleport you guys anywhere in Kanto" Ash said after a few minutes of silence.

"Normally you'd be right. The moment we heard of the situation going on here we would have been teleported, Gym Leader Giovanni too, here but for some reason, our highly trained Alakazams couldn't" The ACE trainer said.

"Why if I may ask?" Ash inquired.

The ACE trainer saw nothing wrong so he told Ash, "When we asked why not the only thing the head Alakazam said was 'there is a dark shadowy pressure there that is blocking us from teleporting in.'"

"Pressure? It has to be from that shot!" Ash thought in realization.

"Do you know anything about that kid?" the ACE trainer asked Ash.

"Yes, I do!" Ash said.

"Then please enlighten us" a new female voice now said.

They both looked over and walking to them was a female ACE trainer with an imposing-looking Sceptile next to her.

"Vice-Captain Ashido!" the ACE trainer that Ash was talking to salute.

"Stand down Hikaru," Vice-Captain Ashido said.

The ACE trainer saluted and stood by her.

"You were saying young man?" the Vice-Captain said.

"Oh right! You see when Meowth got surrounded by the police initially he was outmatched and was going to be taken in but..." Ash said but paused remembering the situation.

"But?" Ashido inquired.

"Meowth asked for a shot from two other Team Rocket members," Ash said.

"Shot?" she asked.

"Yes, I have no idea what it was, but I did see that inside the shot was a darkish pinkish liquid. Meowth injected it in himself when all the police ordered their partner Pokémons to fire at Meowth. After he did, all this happened. He started using attacks from other types of Pokémons and his arms even turned to blades. He slashed all the officers with it, attacked two passing by trainers when they tried to defend Jenny, and almost killed her Arcanine" Ash explained.

"But what about that pressure that prevented us from teleporting in?" the vice-captain said after a moment of thought.

"You see, Meowth was not only able to do that once he injected himself but also, he was able to emit pressure, unlike anything I've ever felt before. It was suffocating and knocked out many people and their Pokémons. I don't know how I was able to hold out" Ash said as he looked at his friend whose head was now resting on his lap.

"That still doesn't explain why our Psychics couldn't teleport us in," the vice-captain said.

"I think I might have a guess on that" Ash said and at her gaze, he elaborated, "You see Meowth also began emanating a Dark Aura around himself. I think that is what was preventing your Alakazams from teleporting in. I could be wrong though" Ash explained.

"No, that does make sense. Especially with how Meowth is acting right now. Especially that blade that makes up his arm is a dead giveaway" she said as she momentarily looked at where Meowth was being held by Rhyperior.

"But still do you know anything about that shot? Did Meowth revealed anything?" she asked Ash.

"Not much. However, all he did say was that 'Zager and Namba really outdid themselves this time.' I don't know what he meant by that though" Ash said.

"Of course, it was something they created. No wonder those devices on those Pokémon's chests seemed so familiar" the vice-captain said in anger.

Not only was she in anger but her Sceptile, the ACE trainer Ash was talking to and his Dodrio as well.

"I don't understand," Ash said.

"Don't worry about it. You don't need to trouble yourself with those details" the vice-captain said with no room for argument.

Ash simply nodded not wanting to irritate this intimidating woman.

"Anyway kid, you did a fantastic job on delaying Meowth until we got here," the vice-captain said as she and her subordinate saluted Ash.

"I wouldn't say I did a good job," Ash said as he momentarily looked at Azami's now sleeping form, "Azami got really hurt trying to just survive the onslaught Meowth put her through. If it wasn't for you guys' timely arrival, I don't know what would have happened."

"Don't beat yourself up, young man. You're Seviper literally went against one of the top agents of Team Rocket, and a juiced-up at that agent, and survived. So, in my and my squad's eyes, you did a great job" the vice-captain said trying to reassure Ash.

"Thank you, mam," Ash said appreciating the woman's words.

"Well, Retsu-" the Vice-Captain was saying but was cut off by a loud scream behind her.

"Ashido, watch out! Incoming your way!" the captain of the ACE trainers yelled out.

Ashido looked over and barreling towards them was Gym Leader Giovanni's massive Rhyperior.

"Retsu get out of the way! Sceptile!" Ashido screamed while grabbing, and then picking up, Ash while Scepetile did the same for Azami. Retsu got on Dodrio and sped out of the way of Rhyperior.

They were able to dodge the Rhyperior in the nick of time as soon as they got out of the way Rhyperior crashed where they had just been.

"What the distortion!" she yelled out, still hold of Ash.

Suddenly a massive Hyper Beam appeared out of nowhere towards the night sky.

"Look out! Above!" another ACE trainer yelled out while pointing to the night sky.

They all looked up and heading towards them was a news chopper whose' tail had been destroyed by that Hyper Beam.

"What is going on?!" the vice-captain shouted.

"Everyone, release your flying types and catch that chopper!" The captain shouted.

A lot of flashes of scarlet light soon appeared and a plethora of flying type Pokémons from all over the regions appeared to stop the barreling chopper.

"Captain what is going on!" the vice-captain asked her superior after putting Ash down.

"Meowth is what's going on!" the captain said out loud.

They all looked towards Meowth and saw that his dark Aura had increased tenfold.

(A few moments ago)

"This is your final warning Meowth, surrender or you will be terminated," Giovanni said coldly.

"Hehehe, this is bringing back some good memories," Meowth said but then paused before turning his head to look at Giovanni, "Just like in the Crown Tundra eh Giovanni?"

At that statement, Giovanni's fists tightened and his glare on Meowth intensified. His Pokémons were snarling at Meowth.

The ACE trainers didn't know what Meowth meant by that except for the ACE captain who was at the Crown Tundra when 'it' happened.

"How dare he!" the captain thought in anger.

Giovanni momentarily closed his eyes to calm himself down. But as he did glimpses of that day appeared in his mind.

(Short Flashback I promise)

(The Crown Tundra)

A freezing snowstorm was hitting a younger Giovanni in the face as he held in his arms the body of a woman who was bleeding out from her gut.

"No no please stay with me!" Giovanni screamed in distress as cold tears fell from his eyes.

"I'm sorry," the dying woman said weakly.

Even if the snowstorm was raging Giovanni could clearly hear her. So, he hugged her tightly to him.

A few feet away from him there was a chase going on with a whole squadron of the ACE equivalent of Galar, S.W.O.R.D agents. In the group was also the future ACE captain Hikaru with his injured Noivern right beside him. Also with them were Giovanni's own Pokémons in a rage.

They were chasing the fearsome 'Deathwish' of Team Rocket. Which consisted of a talking Meowth and the executive Petrel. Except that the Meowth's claws were covered with fresh blood.

"Hahahaha this is so exciting!" Petrel shouted as his Pokémons kept countering any attack sent at them.

"You got that right!" Too bad we weren't able to capture those two Reggis with the dark balls!" Meowth said as he jumped to dodge a flamethrower and fired a water pulse at the Ninetails that fired at them.

"How did they find us?! We were discreet!" Petrel shouted.

"You call blowing up the entrance to the Split-Decisions Ruins discreetly?!" Meowth shouted back.

"It wouldn't open! What else would you have me do!" Petrel responded.

"Whatever let's just get out of here!" Meowth said as he Smashed in the face of a Solrock, that had gotten too close, a Shadow Ball.

"Get them! Don't let them escape with their lives intact!" the head SWORD agent said.

As they continued the chase after them, they stopped because they had reached a snowy cliffside.

"Oh, Crap" they both said.

"Stop, you are surrounded, and you have nowhere to go! Return your Pokémons Petrel! Surrender or face death!" Hikaru was the one to say this time.

They both looked at each other before smirking and raising both their hands up after Peterl returned his Pokémons.

"Good now-" Hikaru was about to say but stopped when Meowth and Petrel shouted.

"LOOK UP BEHIND YOU!" they both said.

They didn't understand but looked and what they saw widened their eyes in shock.

"WHAT THE?!" the head SWORD agent said.

"IS THAT?!" Hikaru said with widened eyes.

Every Pokémon and human did as looked above them and out of nowhere, a massive Air Ship appeared.

"Impossible!" "What is that ship doing here!" "How did it fly undetected?!" "Is she working with Team Rocket?!" "Why is she in Galar?!" were some of the things the SWORD agents were yelling out.

"That's," the head agent said.

"Hunter J's airship!" Hikaru finished.

The Airship flew by past them at top speeds. The resulting wind force scattered everyone everywhere. While they were trying to regain their bearings, they heard Meowth and Petrel shout at them.

"BYE BYE!" they heard Meowth and Petrel say.

They looked and saw that Meowth and Petrel were being pulled away by the Airship with cables tied around their waists.

"No dam it! Stop them!" Hikaru shouted.

Many flying type Pokémons dashed off to prevent Meowth and Petrel from escaping. The Pokémons that couldn't fly began shooting their long rage attacks at the pair of criminals.

Once they were at a certain range and just before the Flying Pokémons could catch them and the long-range attacks could hit them, a blue-like forcefield manifested, not just around them, but around the entire ship.

The flying types smashed their heads into the shield and the attacks couldn't do anything to it. The force of the impact managed to knock out a few flying type Pokémons.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA! BYE-BYE!" Petrel shouted.

"THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR INTERFERING WITH US GIOVANNI! YOUR FIANCES DEATH IS ON YOU! THIS TIME IT WAS HER BUT NEXT TIME WE MEET IT'LL BE YOU GIOVANNI!" Meowth shouted at the top of his lungs for Giovanni to hear him. While extending, even more, his bloodied claws.

"MARK MY WORDS MEOWTH! I'LL KILL YOU FOR THIS! EVEN IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO! YOU WILL PAY!" Giovanni shouted at the top of his lungs too while tears of anger poured down his face. His Pokémons roaring their agreement. They will kill that Meowth!

"I'LL BE WAITING!" Meowth shouted one last time before they both disappeared inside the now invincible ship.

Some of the flying Pokémons who weren't knocked out tried to do chase, but the ship had completely vanished.

(On the snowy ground)

All the SWORD agents were cursing because of their failure. However, Hikaru just sadly looked at Gym Leader Giovanni holding onto his fiancé's body. His Pokémons were next to him.

"I love you Giovanni never forget that," the woman said weekly as her life was leaving her.

"I love you to Hikari, now and forever," the proud gym leader said almost in a whisper.

"My only regret is that I couldn't fulfill our promise of dying old together," Hikari said.

This only made Giovanni cry more as he continued hugging her. His anger towards that dammed to distortion Meowth growing even more.

"Goodbye… my love… please…protect our… home," Hikari said her last words as she passed away.

All SWORD agents, Hikaru and his Noivern, as well as Giovanni's Pokémons, lowered their heads in respect for Hikari.

Giovanni couldn't hold it in anymore and let everything come out. He bawled his eyes out for his beloved. Not giving a dam how he looked or if his reputation of being a cold and stern gym leader was tarnished.

"I will kill you Meowth for robbing me of my happiness!" was the only thing going through his mind.

(Inside Hunter J' Airship)

"Whew! Well, that was a close one eh Meowth!?" Petrel told his partner as he had untied himself.

"Sure was! I think that's the closest we've ever been to get arrested!" Meowth said as well.

Before either of them could say anything else many men and women in gray uniform surrounded them with their Pokémons ready to fire at them.

"Woah hey calm down guys!" Meowth said while waving his hands.

"Yeah, no need for hostilities!" Petrel said.

The men and women didn't listen and continued pointing their Pokémons at them.

Meowth and Petrel only smirked at this before a shadow covered their eyes.

"Besides, even if we're a little bit roughed up," Petrel said darkly while taking out what looked to be some stamp-looking weapons from his pocket.

"We can still kill all of you" Meowth finished as he extended his claws and showed them to J's henchmen. They were still covered in blood.

The men and woman gulped while their Pokémons slightly backed off.

"Stand down" a new voice everyone knew well said.

All the men and women stopped what they were doing and saluted the infamous Hunter J.

"They are correct. They can easily kill all of you if they wanted to. I can't afford to lose my subordinates and besides the mess would be hard to clean up" J said as she walked towards the infamous pair.

Again, all her subordinates gulped again. Since most of them were from Sinnoh they had no idea who those two were. All they knew was that they were supposed to be their getaway.

Meowth and Petrel smiled at J.

"J! It's been a while! Look at how you've grown! You look so scary. I guess your time with that Iron masked freak really roughened you up!" Petrel said.

"You're right about that. I can still remember that little girl who went with us on missions for five years" Meowth said as he looked at her.

"Hunter J was part of them!" was the thought going through J's subordinates' minds.

"It's been good. A lot of work. I'm also currently working on a mission Team Galactic paid services for me to do" she said.

"Oh, now what are they looking for?" Petrel asked curiously.

"The Lake Guardians" Hunter J simply said.

Both Petrel and Meowth's eyebrows rose at that. Afterward, they shrugged really not caring what Team Galactic wanted to do.

"Whatever that's not any of our business," Meowth said with Petrel agreeing.

"Very well, then let's go back to Kanto. Your master will want to know how you both failed your mission" Hunter J said walking off while motioning them to follow her.

"Well, that's one conversation I am not looking forward to," Petrel said.

"Agreed" Meowth replied.

"What just happened?" was the thought of all of J's subordinates as they saw the trio walk away.

The Airship then began its long journey back to Kanto.

(Flashback over)

(A few minutes before the encounter with Meowth)

Ever since Hikari's death, Giovanni closed off his heart to everyone. He became more ruthless and a little bit cold-hearted when dealing with enemies of Kanto. He still showed some affection to his Pokémons but that was it. He protected Viridian City with all his might and power. He single-handedly has made Viridian City one of the Safest Cities in all of Kanto. His devotion to the said city was so great that when Champion Lance asked him to join the Elite Four. He refused simply because the job would take him away from Viridian. He still did the missions the Indigo League assigned him to do but he did them incredibly fast and accurately.

What Agatha was to Lavender Town, Giovanni was to Viridian City.

So, when Giovanni heard of the attack going on in his city, he immediately saw red. When the Alakazam he was assigned to couldn't teleport back to Viridian his rage only grew but he was able to hide it perfectly.

Their track to Viridian would have been a long one but they were still going to have to do it. Their plan was to teleport just outside of Route 1 so they could get into the city. However, as they were about to do that, the pressure that was blocking off the Psychics had vanished, and they had been able to teleport into the city. More specifically in front of the Pokémon Center.

When they had gotten there Giovanni's mask almost broke at the destruction, he witnessed around him.

The Pokémon Center had a huge hole on its roof, there was also a huge hole inside the center on one of its walls, inside the center, there was much unconscious police officer and their Pokémons, and a dead officer. Outside there was also much destruction with a battle that had occurred. On the highway laid everywhere was the unconscious body of the Pokémons that attacked Viridian. Laying unconscious as well was officer Jenny and her trusty Arcanine. Even part of the forested park was destroyed as something was launched at full force to the open area of the park.

Giovanni had ordered half of the ACE trainers he had brought with him to secure the knocked-out Pokémons and help anyone they saw injured or knocked out while he and the other half dealt with the attacker.

When they had reached the open area, Giovanni's and Hikaru's eyes widened when they saw that none other than Meowth was the one who had caused the attack.

Giovanni had been furious but also delighted that it was Meowth who had attacked his city. Furious because of Meowth attacking his city while he was momentarily out and delighted because he had finally found Meowth. He will have his revenge.

Giovanni had released all, but one, his Pokémons, while the ACE trainers waited, without Meowth ever noticing. He wondered what that black Aura around Meowth was and why his arm was a blade.

He had shaken those thoughts off and focused on killing Meowth.

However, just before Giovanni's attack began his communicator beeped.

"Tsk, what is it, Lance?" Giovanni said as he touched the ear that had the communicator in it.

"Giovanni, capture Meowth don't kill him!" the indigo champion ordered.

"What?! Lance you of all people know my past with him!" said angrily.

"I know believe me, but we still need him alive. Reign in your hate for him" Lance said.

"Why do you need him alive?! After everything, he's done alongside petrel. Why does that pile of evil death worshiping garbage need to live?! Tell me, Lance?!" Giovanni demanded.

"Because death is too easy for him" Lance replied.

"What?" Giovanni said.

"Giovanni, you know that not only you but everyone in the League wants Meowth and petrel dead. After everything they've done, that is what they deserve" Lance answered.

"Then why are you stopping me from killing him?" Giovanni asked.

"Because if we bring him in, we can, first, take out one of the big players of Team Rocket. Two, stop Meowth's and Petrel's path of death. Three, and most importantly, he'd despised being capture by us. You know he would kill himself first before being captured. Of course, we would prevent that, and we could extract everything he knows of Team Rocket with our Psychics or…" Lance was saying but stopped.

"Or with Ibiki, Anko, and Clementine," Giovanni said smiling.

The ACE Trainers flinched at hearing those three names.

"Exactly. That is the only future that bastard cat deserves" Lance said.

"That does sound better. However, I don't know if I can stop myself from ending him Lance" Giovanni said.

"Very well. How about this, if he refuses and engages you and your team; you have my permission to end him" Lance said.

"Very well. Thank you, Lance," Giovanni said in gratitude.

"I'll leave this in your capable hands. Over and out" Lance said and soon after the line cut off.

Giovanni removed his fingers from his ears before looking at his ACE team.

"Let's go," Giovanni said.

All of the ACE trainers nodded.

Giovanni looked back to the battle and his eyes momentarily widened when he saw that Meowth was about to kill a child.

Giovanni grabbed his final Pokeball and, after enlarging it, threw it as far as he could towards Meowth.

The Pokeball went soaring until it was halfway to Meowth and shortly afterward opened up releasing the massive form of Rypherior who had grabbed Meowth's blade arm the moment he materialized.

That was the moment that Giovanni and his Team had revealed themselves.

(Back to the battle at hand)

"Don't go there Meowth. Otherwise, I will kill you here and now. Consequences be dammed. I'll do what I couldn't do all those years ago on the Crown Tundra" Giovanni said with a controlled fury burning in his eyes.

"Hehehehe still mad at me for her death?" Meowth mocked but soon paid for it as Rhyperiror tightened his grip on him. It made him grunt in pain.

Giovanni was doing everything in his power to keep his boiling rage simmered down. His Pokémons were snarling at Meowth even more because of that comment.

"Surrender Meowth" Giovanni warned one last time.

"As if I'd surrender!" Meowth suddenly blurted out as he reformed his sacred sword from his captured arm to his free one.

Giovanni was too slow to react as his Rhyperior was hit very hard on its rib area by Meowth's Sacred Sword. The attack was so strong that it was able to move Rhyperior's massive frame to the side.

"Go Persian, Garchomp!" Giovanni ordered.

"Attack!" Hikaru ordered his team.

Afterward Persian, Garchomp, and the ACE Pokémons launched themselves tat Meowth.

Meowth saw this but didn't panic, instead, he opened his mouth and fired a point-blank Hydro Cannon straight at Rhyperior.

The attack was strong enough to send Rhyperior flying at the incoming ACE Pokémons.

"Dodge everyone!" Hikaru ordered.

Everyone did as told and got out of the way of the incoming Rhyperior.

Giovanni and the Pokémons that stayed with him dodged as well.

"Ashido watch out!" Hikaru yelled to his vice-captain.

She was able to hear him and was able to get out of the way with the child and his Pokémon. A well as another member of his squadron.

He soon went after to check on them.

Everyone was monetarily stunned at the sheer absurdity of a Meowth being able to push back a massive Rhyperior.

Meowth took advantage of their shock and put his hands forward before firing a massive Hyper Beam straight at a news chopper that was over them.

"Look out! Above!" another ACE trainer yelled out while pointing to the night sky.

They all looked up and heading towards them was a news chopper whose' tail had been destroyed by that Hyper Beam.

"What is going on?!" the vice-captain shouted.

"Everyone, release your flying types and catch that chopper!" The captain shouted.

A lot of flashes of scarlet light soon appeared and a plethora of flying type Pokémons from all over the regions appeared to stop the barreling chopper.

Thankfully, all the flying types were able to catch the chopper before it could crash-land.

However, in the confusion, Meowth decided to make a run for it. However, Giovanni saw this and wouldn't let it happen.

"Garchomp, Persian after him!" Giovanni said.

Garchomp and Persian obeyed and darted off to the fleeing Meowth.

Meowth saw Garchomp and Persian chasing after him and could only tsked in annoyance.

"Dam it!" Meowth thought in anger. He needed to do something fast! His power was leaving him quickly. He knew the aftershock of that shot would not be pleasant since it was still in its experimental phase.

Meowth was brought out of his train of thought when he saw that a Dragon Pulse and a Dark Pulse were heading at him.

Meowth attacked fast and was able to dodge both attacks by using detect.

When dodged, however, he was able to see that the chopper was able to land safely because of the help of the flying type Pokémons.

Meowth could only growl as he ran since with that problem out of the way all the ACE trainers, alongside the still pursuing Garchomp and Persian, ordered their Pokémons to chase after and capture Meowth. Now they were solely focused on him.

Meowth was dodging every attack sent after him, but also knew that it wouldn't be long before he collapsed. He was starting to lose control of his body.

"Dam it!" Meowth cursed as he dodged a Flamethrower from an Emboar.

However, as he dodged, he saw that in the spot where the flamethrower landed that a mini fire occurred. He then began looking at all the vegetation around him. His brain had given him an idea of how to escape.

A wide and evil smirk formed on his face.

Suddenly he stopped before turning around and looking at the incoming Pokémons bent on capturing him.

"Hehe, that'll be fun!" Meowth thought before what remained of his dark aura burst to life in him.

"What are you doing?" Giovanni looked on. His Nidoking and queen were in front of him.

"Watch your city burn Giovanni!" Meowth screamed, his eyes turning a crimson dark color.

Then Meowth took in a very very very deep breath.

"Majestic Destroyer Flamethrower!" Meowth shouted before firing his massive last attack. (A/N: Madara's attack, sue me.)

No one had time to think as suddenly out of Meowth's mouth came out a flamethrower that soon expanded into a raging Inferno.

A literal tidal wave of fire was heading for the Pokémons and the ACE Trainers. It was burning everything in its path including the small bug-type Pokémons that lived in Viridian Park.

"All water type Pokémons, and those that can use water type moves, use your strongest water attacks and form a wall of water to stop Meowth's attack! If that attack gets past us, it will burn the city!" Giovanni shouted.

"Every single water Pokémon up front!" Hikaru shouted.

Every single Water-type Pokémon, and those that knew water type moves, did as told, and formed a defensive line. Those that knew water type moves stood behind the line of water Pokémons. Nidoking and Nidoqueen were there too.

"Everyone, fire!" Giovanni shouted.

Every single Pokémon fired their strongest water type move at the incoming inferno. All of the water types move combined into a gigantic tidal wave that was going to crash with the inferno Meowth sent at them.

Both massive attacks collided against each other and produced a massive burst of steam that covered the entire area.

"This is my chance!" Meowth thought but just before he was about to leave, he decided to do one last thing.

He smirked before feeling unimaginable pain from his back. He gritted his teeth and shut his eyes as the pain in his back grew even more. Something was coming out of his back. (A/N: Wait for it)

"Now!" Meowth yelled inwardly.

Suddenly out of spurred a fountain of blood. However, out of that blood came out two large metallic things.

Meowth was huffing in exhaustion as blood flowed from his back. He smiled through the pain and then disappeared one last time.

(Inside the steam cloud)

The Steam had incapacitated everyone by blinding them.

"Stay close to me kid!" vice-captain Ashido told Ash.

"Yes, mam!" Ash said as he stood behind her.

During the whole ordeal, Ash just looked on in astonishment at the whole destruction Meowth was causing. He was running out of power, and he was still fighting, while escaping, a whole squadron of ACE trainers and their Pokémons. That included the Gym leader's own Pokémons.

"So, this is one of Team Rocket's top agents?" Ash asked as he stood closer to the woman protecting him.

"Oh yeah. But this is unlike anything Meowth has ever caused before. Just be glad petrel isn't here otherwise it'd be much worse" the woman said.

Ash didn't know who petrel was and decided to not think about it. Not because he didn't want to but because his eyes widened in horror when he saw fireballs falling from the sky!

"Look up!" Ash shouted loud enough for everyone to hear.

Everyone looked up and, just like ash, their eyes widened when they saw literal meteors falling towards them. However, those meteors were covered in flames.

"Dam it!" Giovanni cursed.

In the middle of all those meteors stood Meowth flying on air. Everyone's jaws dropped to the floor when they saw that out of Meowth's back were a pair of two massive metal wings that were holding his small, and beaten, body afloat. (A/N: Imagine a visual of Meowth with a bunch of Meteors around him. Also, the wings are the same as Archangel from the x-men series)

"Well, it's been fun Giovanni, but it's time for me to leave! I hope you enjoy my parting gift! Ta ta!" Meowth shouted before flying off.

"Dam you, Meowth!" Giovanni shouted.

"Stop those meteors, everyone!" Hikaru shouted before looking at Ashido, "Ashido get that kid and his Pokémon out of here!"

"YES SIR!" everyone shouted.

"Come on kid, let's go!" Ashido said as she dragged Ash away.

Sceptile doing the same with Azami.

"How could this night have turned out like this?" Ash thought as he saw the incoming meteors.

(Viridian Forest) (Hehehe I know I'm evil for skipping that scene)

In an open clearing deep inside the Viridian Forest stood a man, leaning on a tree, covered in black wearing a hat and a long black trench coat with an embezzled letter R on the back of it.

Next to him stood a ferocious-looking Mightyena and an equally strong Persian.

However, the Persian looked as if she was waiting for something or rather someone to appear. She then looked up at the clad-in-black man expectingly.

"Don't worry Mina. He should appear anytime soon" the man told the now named Pokémon Mina.

This man was personally sent by the leader of Team Rocket to retrieve Meowth. Team Rocket was well aware of the destruction and chaos Meowth was causing. Some of the Rookies wanted to go to backup Meowth but it was his partner Petrel who shut the idea down by saying that Meowth would kill them first if they intervened.

In the end, they left Meowth to do as he pleased.

The man had been there for a while and had a front-row seat at all the destruction that small, only in body, Pokémon had caused.

"Hehehehe Zager and Namba are going to be happy with the results," the man said as he took out a flask from one of his pockets at took a big whisk from it.

However, they didn't have to wait any longer as suddenly something crash-landed in the clearing they were at.

Mightyena and Persian got into battle positions while the man smirked as he walked forward to the small crater.

"Easy there guys, there's nothing to worry about," the man said as he was at the edge of the small crater. The Pokémon followed suit.

Afterward, the man jumped into the small crater and slid down, with the Pokémons, to the center of the said crater. There was still a cloud of dust and earth that covered whoever crash-landed.

"Ain't that right…" the man was about to say but suddenly something with an edge burst out of the dust cloud and was heading for the man's neck. However, it stopped when it was mere centimeters from the neck of the man.

Instead of being afraid, the man had a big smile on his face, "Meowth."

There was a gush of wind that blew away the dust cloud and in it laid the exhausted and in pain body of Meowth. His dark aura gone, blood still dripping from where the wings came out, internal bleeding, his throat scorched from his fire, every single muscle torn, and with most of his bones broken sorely because of the shot's aftermath.

"Kenny" Meowth hissed with his metallic wing still centimeters away from Kenny's neck.

"Took you long enough. How was it? Was the mission successful?" the now-named Kenny said.

"Huff huff yeah. Everyone was focused on me" Meowth said through sharp inhales.

He had removed the metallic wing from Kenny's neck. Afterward, he made his new appendages shrink to an appropriate size for his small body to be able to support their weight.

"Fancy new wings you have there. Was it the docs shot?" Kenny asked examining his wings.

Meowth could only nod, too tired to even respond.

"What's wrong old man? Did you tire already? Back when I first joined Team Rocket you would have gone in a hundred missions without ever tiring. You were the epitome of Team Rocket, but surely age has caught up with you. My Arceus, you were here longer than the master. You were part of Team Rocket when the madame was still in charge" Kenny was saying in a mocking manner.

A vein popped in Meowth's head.

Persian and Mightyena were looking worriedly at Kenny.

"Face it Meowth…You're losing your edge" Kenny said.

Meowth had had enough. Suddenly his wings grew to their great size once more before pouncing on Kenny and dropping him to the ground. Both tips of his metallic wings again were mere centimeters from his neck while Meowth extended his claws and brought them close to Kenny's eyes.

"Listen here brat, I've been doing this long before you were even born. I've seen shit that would make you shit your pants. I've killed so many powerful people and Pokémons throughout my life. Just because you're part of that Ackerman clan don't think your hot shit next to me Kenny, I don't care how high up the latter you are in Team Rocket. To me you're still that cocky, insane little brat I met all those years ago" Meowth stated dangerously as he moved his wings close enough to draw blood.

"The same brat I can easily kill with or without these new wings of mine. Now tell me who has lost his edge?" Meowth said.

"Hehehe, now there is the Meowth I admire," Kenny said while laughing as he moved his arms in a sign of surrender.

"That's what I thought," Meowth said as he retracted his claws back and turned his metal wings small.

Suddenly a bolt of pain ran through Meowth that made him fall to his knees. His little outburst only injured him more.

"Grandfather!" Persian and Mightyena said in Pokespeech as they pounced on Meowth in worry.

They began looking at him in worry as he had coughed up some blood.

"I'm fine! I'm more durable than I look" Meowth said as he swatted his grandchildren away.

"Sorry grandfather" Persian and Mightyena bowed their heads in forgiveness.

"Forget it, just take me back to base. I don't know how much longer I can last. Tell kabuto he's needed urgently. His sick experiments can wait" Meowth said trying to get up, he failed.

Persian saw this and motioned Mightyena to help their grandfather. Said Pokémon nodded before grabbing, with his mouth, Meowth by the neck and then putting him on Persian's back.

"Thanks, brats," Meowth said not caring anymore of how he's being carried.

Soon the small group started walking away.

"So?" Meowth said.

"So?" Kenny asked back.

"Don't play with me, Kenny. You know what I mean. Did the master find what he was looking for?" Meowth said.

"Oh yeah," Kenny said.

"Perfect" Meowth simply said.

They continued walking a little while longer before Meowth remembered something important.

Meowth then began laughing which got him odd looks from Kenny and his grandchildren.

"Something funny Meowth?" Kenny asked.

"Of yeah. you're going to get a kick out of this" Meowth said before telling Kenny of the Ackerman girl.

Both true Team Rocket members laughed all the way as they disappeared into the Viridian Forest.

(Mt. Moon)

Inside one of the deepest caverns of Mt. Moon were many members of Team Rocket excavating with various tools and ground-type Pokémons.

The cavern was completely lighted so everyone could see what they were doing. However, the cavern they were in wasn't any ordinary cavern. The cavern was mostly empty except for a giant stone door located on the center wall.

That stone door had a tree-like carving on it with a weird bird-like symbol in the middle. On the top right, top left, and the center top had a "painting" of the creation trio Palkia, Dialga, and Giratina. The Bird symbol, however, had a carving of the crown of the alpha Pokémon Arceus around it.

As all Team Rocket members were working, one single man stood right under that door diligently inspecting it.

To anyone, this might have been just an ancient stone carving by the ancient people of Kanto but not to him. He knew what this door was and the power it held, especially what was behind it.

"If it wasn't for mother's research this would have taken longer," the man thought.

Next to the man stood two very rare and very powerful-looking Pokémons. One was all purple with a cannon on its back and had a robotic appearance, The other was a literal giant of metal.

"Master!" suddenly a scientist cried out.

The man tsked before looking back to the scientist that interrupted his train of thought.

"What is it," he said in a deep voice.

"Oh, um well master, Meowth's mission was successful but had to retreat. However, the League's forces are all focused on Viridian and Fuchsia, so they won't be interrupting us any time soon. Meowth and Petrel are heading back to HQ as you ordered" the scientist said.

"Very well," the man said before returning his attention to the stone door.

The man took that as his cue to leave.

"You know that if you keep staring at that door people will start thinking you crazy" a female voice suddenly said.

"Let them think what they want. I already found three of these, now I only need five more to complete my plan" the man said as he continued caressing the wall.

"Whatever, as long as you honor our part of the deal, I don't care what you do," the mysterious woman said as she munched on something.

"Oh, don't worry about the deal. I will honor it…witch" the man said as a sinister smile formed on his face.

The woman shrugged as she continued looking at the working grunts and scientists under her. However, the same strange bird-like symbol with the crown of Arceus around it that was on the stone door, was also plastered on her forehead.

"Soon the regions… no the entire world will be united as one, under my rule," the man said quietly with that big smile on his face.

However, looking discreetly from a dark corner stood a massive gray Metagross and an old-looking Clefable.

"Oh dear," the Clefable thought in worry.

"This is only the start my old friend" Metagross telepathically told the Clefable.

A single thought went through both Pokémon's minds as they looked on.

"Get here soon."

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A/N: Well done with that finally! Again, sorry for the wait but I think I should point this out now but expect slow updates from me since I'm fully working now. Although in this environment I don't know how long it will take for the next update. There might be a hiatus but be sure I am not abandoning this story. Anyway, what did y'all think on my take on Viridian and Team Rocket eh? Pretty awesome right? Is Giovanni the leader of Team Rocket here? Who knows? In this story, Meowth will be a major villain and nothing like cannon him. I hope you liked all my references. Hehehe now where do we go from here eh? Well, find out next time. Please tell me how the battle scenes went and if I'm going a little overboard. Hmm, I think that is all. Anyway, please review/favorite/follow it. Have a great day/night/morning/afternoon from wherever you're reading this. Like always constructive criticism is accepted but flames will be ignored.