Brock's POV
The five of us got outside and Ash called on his Staraptor. "Staraptor, look around for Team Rocket!" Staraptor nodded and flew off. I looked at my friends and said, "Let's split up. We can cover more ground that way. Dawn; you, Barry and I will go in this direction. Ash; you and Paul go in the other direction." Ash nodded and said, "Right, Brock." Paul and Ash took the other direction while Barry, Dawn and I took our direction.
We looked high and low. Just then, we saw Team Rocket's balloon in the sky. Dawn pointed up and said, "There they are!" Barry threw a poke ball and his Staraptor appeared. Barry commanded, "Staraptor, Aerial Ace on that balloon!" "Staraptor!" The big predator bird said. Staraptor used its Aerial Ace to poke a hole in their balloon, causing them to come crashing down. We came over and saw Jessie, James and Meowth getting out of the wreck. They saw us and all said, "Twerps!" Dawn looked mad as did Barry. I was mad too but I noticed something.
Dawn brought me out of my thoughts and said, "All right! Give back those poke balls!" Jessie, James, and Meowth looked positively confused. Meowth spoke up and asked, "What poke balls?" James spoke up next and said, "We don't have any poke balls." Before Barry could say anything, I beat him to the punch. "Hold on minute, guys. They're telling the truth." Jessie looked mad and said, "Well, of course we are! All we are guilty of is listening to the cold hearted twerp's life story." They all started crying. Wobbuffet popped out of its ball and said with tears in its eyes, "Wobbuffet, wobba."
Barry looked at me and asked, "If they didn't steal the poke balls, then who did?" Dawn looked at me and asked, "Do you think that it might be Cassidy and Biff?" I nodded my head and said, "It's a possibility. And it's also a possibility that Ash and Paul took the right path." Barry looked mad and said, "If Ash and Paul did take the right path and I'm going to have to fine them!" Dawn and I sighed out of being annoyed and I spoke, "We'll have to double back and catch up with Ash and Paul." With that, Barry recalled his Staraptor and the last words we heard from Team Rocket were, "What? You're not going to help us fix our balloon?"
Ash's POV
Paul, Pikachu, and I were looking high and low for Team Rocket. My Staraptor approached me and shook its head. I smiled and said, "Thanks for trying. Take a rest." I recalled Staraptor back to its ball and Paul came over to me. It was weird working with him. But, something inside me knew it was right.
He sighed and asked, "If I were Team Rocket and had a bunch of poke balls, where would I be?" I smiled and answered, "We would have found them by now and blasted them off like the losers they are." Paul smiled at me and said, "Good answer, Ash." It all felt right. Paul helping, me being his friend, and him being open with me and my friends. Pikachu suddenly got off of my shoulder and looked over the cliff. I couldn't help but wonder if it sensed something.
It pointed down and called to me, "Pika, pi!" Paul and I went over and looked down. On a ledge were Cassidy, Biff, and a girl. The girl was at least seventeen, medium height, medium length brown hair, green eyes, and a silver locket around her neck, a purple dress shirt, black dress jeans, white running shoes, and a white pouch around her waist. It couldn't be…. Paul saw the girl and knew who it was. "Ranee!" Paul shouted.