A/N: Ok so the two trio's first job was completed with little difficulties minus the fact that Professor Oak almost called the cops on them. They got promoted and now are heading for the orange islands.
Chapter II: The Twerps
The Rocket arrived at the four islands at the center of the orange islands. The bridge was quite until Jessie spoke up. "Hey Dark King what are we doing here anyways? There is no one to steal from so is there even a point to being here?"
Dark King did not answer. He just gave her a 'shut the f up' look. The ship landed in the water beside the largest of the four islands. As soon as they got off they were greeted by a Slowking.
"Hello welcome." The Slowking then noticed the dark tinted Slowking with them. "Brother is that you? It has been too long. Are these your friends?"
Everyone but Dark King was amazed by the talking Slowking. "Hello to you as well brother. It is true these five are my friends. Jessie, James, Con, Blair, and Meowth this is my brother. He watches over the shrine of the water's guardian."
Meowth walked up to the Slowking. "Glad to meet you. So I take it you just sit around waiting for the chosen one to come."
Slowking nodded. "Oh yes indeed. The chosen one has been born and starts his journey to be a pokémon trainer soon."
Dark King nodded. "We will keep an eye out for him brother. So have you seen any rare or unusual pokémon around as of late?"
"No, no I haven't. Not too many people or pokémon ever visit me. In fact you guys are my first visitors in centuries." Everyone but Dark King hung their jaws open. "I'm used to it though it comes with the job." Slowking said with a smile.
After a few hours of talking and some lunch the gang loaded back up on The Rocket and set off for Viridian City. Jessie and James were talking with each other while Meowth was making adjustments to the Meowth Balloon. Dark King was standing on the bridge admiring the landscape of Kanto. After an hour of flying the ship landed near the Viridian Forest.
Meowth was walking next to Dark King as they were loading up the balloon. "So Dark King if your brother has been around for centuries how old are you guys?" Meowth asked hoping he wasn't being too nosey.
"Well my brother is over 5,000 years old. I am just two or three centuries younger than him. Honestly I don't get why people care about their ages. Most Slowking live to 100,000."
"Lucky I definitely won't live that long." Meowth complained.
"Oh please save the water works. Could you imagine living for 100,000 years? None of your friends would be around for very long. That is why most Slowkings don't make friends with humans or pokémon outside their own species." Dark King wiped a tear out of his eye. Meowth instantly understood why it would not be fun to live for so long.
"That is too bad but at least you will get to see many things and do many more things with your life then we ever would be able too." Meowth said trying to cheer him up.
Dark King nodded. The gang loaded up onto the hot air balloon. "Ok so does everyone remember the plan?" Dark King asked before they took off.
"Yup, go in, steal the pokémon, and get out before the cops show up." Meowth announced. Everyone nodded in agreement.
As soon as they broke into the Viridian City Pokémon Center three people confronted them. One of them was a boy with spiky raven hair in a black t-shirt, a blue jacket, a red cap, a green backpack, green fingerless gloves, blue jeans, and black sneakers. Another was the nurse of the Pokémon Center, Nurse Joy. The last one was a girl with spiky orange hair in a yellow t-shirt, blue shorts with red suspenders, red sneakers, and a red hair band to turn one side of her hair in to a pony tail. The boy spoke first. "Who are you creeps?"
"Prepare for trouble, from the skies!" Jessie began.
"From beyond the stars, a nasty surprise," James joined.
"An evil as old as the galaxy," Blair said with a wicked smile.
"Sent here to fulfill our destiny," Con followed Blair's example and gave a wicked grin.
"Don't forget me!" Meowth cried as he sprang on top Dark King.
"Or me!" Dark King said grunting under Meowth's weight.
"To denounce the evils of truth and love," Jessie and Blair said together.
"To extend our reach to the stars above," James and Con recited.
"Jessie,"
"James,"
"Blair,"
"Con,"
"Dark King, and…"
"Meowth now dat's a name!" Meowth said as he jumped off of Dark King's head.
"Whenever there is good in the universe…" Jessie and James said in unison.
"…Team Rocket…" Blair and Con recited.
"…Will be there…" Meowth and Dark King shouted.
"…To make everything worse!" They all shouted together.
"Team Rocket what's that?" The boy asked. Nurse Joy stepped in front of the boy and girl. "They are a band of Pokémon thieves." She said. "Get to the back room hurry."
"Oh no you don't." James cried after them. "Koffing smokescreen!" James ordered as he called out his Koffing.
The whole lobby was covered in the smokescreen. Team Rocket themselves have been trained to see in them. Team Rocket found the back room and began to pound on the door for them to open. "Knock, knock now open up!" James screamed.
"You dope! Do you really tink they will open up if you ask?" Meowth asked. Before anyone could answer Dark King used his psychic powers to force the door open. "Alright kiddos hand over dem Pokéballs and no one gets hurt."
"No way!" The boy shouted back. "Over our dead bodies!" The girl shouted. Nurse Joy was on the phone. "This is the Viridian city Pokémon Center we are transferring over some pokéballs." Another voice said something. "No, you have to Team Rocket is here we need to send over the pokéball…" Before she could finish Con grabbed her by the arm.
"That is quite enough little lady. We warned you to just hand them over but no you just had to be difficult. James and Meowth tie them all up and gag them." Meowth and James followed the orders and tied up the kids and Nurse Joy.
Meowth started to shove pokéballs into a bag chanting. "One pokéball, two pokéball, three and soon we will be swimming in dough!" Everyone grinned at the statement. "Hey I just noticed sumthin. We cut the power but the lights are on." Everyone looked at the celling and sure enough Meowth was right. "Ok so where is the Pika-Power generator?" Meowth ordered as he removed Nurse Joy's gag.
Nurse Joy spitted in his face and said. "Wouldn't you like to know."
Dark King's eyes glowed and then he left. Meowth looked towards the door. "Well, I guess he knows where dey are."
Dark King came back just as the lights went out. He had a large bag that appeared to be moving. "I got the Pika-Power source." He said proudly. "Well Nurse Joy it has been a real pleasure but we have other places to be so toddles." Dark King said as he and the rest of Team Rocket made a dash for the door. When they got to the door there was another Pikachu waiting for them. "Must have missed one." Dark King assumed as he reached for it. The Pikachu jumped up and slashed the bags open. All of the Pikachus turned towards Team Rocket. "Well this won't end well." Dark King managed to say before the boy's Pikachu shocked them all.
The Pokémon Center blow up and Team Rocket was sent sky high. Meowth looked less then pleased. "Well dat ended badly." Meowth exclaimed. The others nodded.
Dark King narrowed his eyes in the direction of the Pokémon Center. "That was no ordinary Pikachu. Its power exceeds all of the electric types I have seen minus Zapdos of course. I say we capture it and give it to the boss." Everyone nodded. Team Rocket then landed in the forest near their ship. "Well that was convenient." Dark King said as he walked towards the ship.
They all got to the bridge and contacted Giovanni. Dark King was dreading explaining why they failed. "Giovanni I regret to inform you that we have failed our mission in Viridian City. A boy and his Pikachu stopped us. His Pikachu's power is second only to Zapdos the bird of lighting. We will attempt to capture the Pikachu and dispose of the boy." Dark King finished. Giovanni looked less than pleased with their failure.
"Very well but do not fail me again Dark King or you will wish you were never born." Giovanni growled. The boss then ended the call.
"Well it could have been worse." James said hopefully.
Everyone gave James death glairs. "No it could have been worse. We could have been demoted or fired." Jessie screamed. Meowth only nodded before he jumped onto James and started to claw at his face.
"Ow! Get him off of me!" James screamed.
Dark King sighed. "This is going to be a long trip." He thought to himself.
Chapter II Part II: Mewtwo
A few months after their first attempt to capture Pikachu failed Dark King began to feel a sudden change in the weather. He voiced his complaints to his cohorts only to be told not to worry. But today the disturbance felt worse. He knew something unnatural was causing his discomfort but what?
The Rocket had just turned on the cloaking device so they could follow the boy and his friends without detection. Dark King still felt the disturbance and knew something somewhere was about to happen. He turned to his teammates. "Something is terribly wrong here. I don't know what exactly but something is definitely wrong."
"We told you that it is nothing and not to worry about it. I am sure it is just stress from the trainers and their Pikachu." Con reassured his mentor and friend. Con went back to checking the radar. "Your Darkness we have an unidentified Pokémon coming right this way. It is appears to be a large flying-type, dragon-type, or possibly both." The crew looked out the bridge's observation window to see a large orange Dragonite making a landing next to the kids.
The Dragonite gave them something. It appeared to be a holographic message. The kids wrote on something and gave it to the Dragonite. The Dragonite then took off and headed the opposite direction. Dark King then shouted orders to his cohorts. "Follow that Dragonite don't let it out of your sights. I want to know who sent it and why." Blair nodded and turned off the auto pilot and took control of the ship and headed after the Dragonite.
After about twenty minutes of flying the Dragonite landed on an island. On the island there was a large palace with a few windmills and a dock. Meowth looked at the GPS screen. "Yo Darky this place is uncharted territory! The GPS can't pin point our location."
Dark King narrowed his eyes at Meowth. "So we are in uncharted territory. Search the Team Rocket data banks Con and see if you can pull something up." Con nodded.
"The data banks for this region is encrypted but I think I can hack it and be done before anyone notices." Con announced. Dark King nodded. Con punched a few keys. "Yes, I'm in!" Con cried. He brought up a map of the island on the main screen of the bridge and then brought up pictures of an old Team Rocket lab that used to be where the palace was. "Alright I got the info now I am closing out before I am detected." Con then punched a few more keys. "Alright this island is called New Island it used to be a cloning lab funded by Giovanni. The lab was destroyed when its creation lost its temper and destroyed the lab and all of the scientists. It then was brought to Team Rocket HQ and was trained to use its psychic abilities. When the creature no longer wanted to be a slave to Giovanni it broke out and destroyed the Team Rocket base it was being kept in. The creation was called Mewtwo because they used DNA from a Mew to create it. Mewtwo's current location is unknown but some believe he has taken refuge on New Island." Con looked up from his computer and looked out the window. "So do you think it is in there?"
Dark King shrugged. "Your guess is as good as mine but I would not doubt it. Mewtwo may be there because I am sensing a strong psychic energy coming from within the palace. I am also sensing one human and three pokémon." Dark King thought for some time. "Since the boss could not keep Mewtwo under control we can assume that Mewtwo's powers are too great for us to handle." The others nodded in agreement. Dark King then turned to James. "James, I want you to send down some surveillance drones so we can monitor what goes on down there." Just as Dark King finished his sentence the sky went from beautiful to dark grey. The sky lit up with lightning and it began to rain really hard. Dark King turned towards Blair. "Blair, activate the solar panels and get us above these clouds ASAP!"
The Rocket went above the clouds and activated its solar panels to save its fuel. Dark King then turned to Meowth, Jessie, and James. "Go load up on the battle sub." Dark King then turned towards Con. "When I give the command drop the battle sub." Con nodded. "Blair stay here with Con and keep an eye on the ship." Blair was going to give a complaint but chose not to.
The battle sub surfaced at a seaport. The kids and a bunch of other trainers were lined up at the docks complaining about a ship to New Island being cancelled. The kids noticed the sub and ran to it and called out their Pokémon. The boy and his Pikachu got there first. "Team Rocket what do you want?"
The hatch opened and Jessie, James, and Meowth rode up on an elevator. Jessie looked at the boy. "If you think we're here to cause trouble,"
"Well we are certainly going to burst your bubble." James continued.
"To protect the world form devastation,"
"To unite all peoples within our nation,"
"To denounce the evils of truth and love,"
"To extend our reach to the stars above,"
"Jessie,"
"James,"
"Team Rocket helping these twerps at the speed of light,"
"So please don't start a fight." James said a little afraid of Pikachu.
"Meowth dat's right!"
The boy looked utterly confused. "Why would you guys help us?"
"If we help you get to New Island we can finally find out what happened there so in other words we scratch your back you scratch ours." Jessie said with a grin. "Of course you can swim your way to the island I am sure you and your friends will make it on your own." Jessie said sarcastically and as if on cue a large lightning bolt hit the waters behind them.
The boy and his friends knew better then to trust Team Rocket but they were out of options. So against their better judgment they got on board the submarine.
Jessie escorted them into the control room for the submarine. "So twerps how about you tell us your name?"
The boy looked skeptical but decided it wouldn't do any harm. "I'm Ash Ketchum and this is Misty and Brock." Dark King turned towards the boy at the mention of the name Ash. "What?"
Dark King gave a little bow. "I am pleased to officially meet your acquaintance Ash. I am Dark King, my brother guards an ancient shrine in the orange islands but I am sure you will meet him soon enough." Ash gave a confused look. "Oh yes, where are my manners? I have yet to tell you of the legend of the orange islands.
Disturb not the harmony of fire, ice, or lightning. Lest these titans wreck destruction on the world in which they clash. Though the waters great guardian shall arise to quell the fighting alone its song shall fail thus the Earth shall turn to Ash.
Oh chosen one, into thine hands bring together all three their treasures combined tame the beast of the sea. From the trio of islands ancient spheres shall you take for between life and death, all the difference you will make.
Oh chosen one, ascend to the shrine to right what is wrong and the world shall be healed by the guardian's song." Ash and his friends were a little perplexed by the legend but Dark King knew it would sink in eventually.
Ash shook his head. "I don't get what that has to do with me." Dark King fell over backwards anime style.
He jumped back up and started to shout. "Didn't you listen to a word I said? I mean come on 'thus the Earth shall turn to Ash' I thought that was pretty self-explanatory!" Ash looked a little scared and did an anime style sweat drop.
"Oh, ok now I get it I think." Ash said as Pikachu did a little anime puff sigh.
Meowth looked up from his console. "We have arrived at the palace." Dark King nodded and the sub began to surface.
Ash, Brock, Misty, Jessie, James, Meowth, and Dark King got off the sub where Con and Blair were waiting for them. Con looked a little annoyed. "Took you guys long enough!"
They all got to the palace doors and waited for someone to greet them. Dark King looked at Con and Blair. "Con and Blair I want you two to sneak around back a try to find an emergency escape route in case thing get difficult. Be careful we have no idea who brought these trainers here or why so don't do anything stupid." Con and Blair nodded and left to go around back. As soon as they were out of sight the doors opened.
A woman dressed in a brown dress with a matching hat greeted them. The weird thing was she talked almost like a robot would and her eyes never blinked not even once. "Greeting, please present your invitations." Ash presented his invitation. "Very well follow me." As soon as the last member of the group entered the door the door closed.
"Anyone else feel like this place is haunted?" James asked almost afraid to find out.
"James my boy that is ridiculous. Everyone knows that ghost pokémon are the only ghosts you will ever find anywhere and besides if this place was haunted do you think someone would live here?" Dark King said. He was trying to reassure himself more than he was James. "There are no such things as ghosts, there are no such things as ghosts!" Dark King repeated in his head.
"Well I suppose not. But still it just feels creepy in here." James mumbled under his breath.
No one noticed the Mew that was following their group. The Mew looked at the group with great curiosity. "I wonder what they are doing here? Maybe it is because of the mean pokémon." Mew thought to himself.
The group finally entered the dining hall where the other trainers were waiting. The Mew went down another hallway to avoid detection. The door closed behind the group. "Now that all of the worthy trainers are here I will go get the master." The women said as she got on an elevator.
Ash looked around but only saw three other four other trainers. "So I guess the storm was some sort of test." Ash said noticing Dark King nodding in agreement.
"The storm was created by a power psychic pokémon who lives here." Dark King informed.
"So the world's greatest Pokémon Master had one of his pokémon make the storm?" Ash questioned.
"I am not so sure whether or not this so called Pokémon Master even exists. It could just be an elaborate trap made by the psychic pokémon clone Mewtwo. Believe me Mewtwo has a lot of motive to want to mass murder human pokémon trainers." Ash cringed at the thought of a pokémon wanting to murder humans. "I have no doubt in my mind that Mewtwo seeks revenge for the crimes the human race has committed on him. He murdered hundreds of Team Rocket grunts and scientists when he blew-up the lab that used to be here and the Team Rocket HQ. You may be thinking yay he killed Team Rocket grunts! Well he also killed the ones who gave him life." Ash seemed surprised that anyone would do that.
"But why would a pokémon do such a thing?" Ash wondered aloud.
"He was created by Team Rocket enough said!" Misty blurted out.
"Hey I will not let you speak about Dr. Fuji like that!" Dark King screamed. Now everyone even Jessie and James had their eyes on him. "Dr. Fuji was a brilliant man just trying to revive his daughter through cloning. Unfortunately he never had the chance since Mewtwo killed him and all of his scientists. Dr. Fuji did not even like working for Team Rocket but he needed the funding. Our boss only wanted to control the most powerful pokémon the world has ever known but Dr. Fuji wanted more, much more." Ash seemed sorry for what he said.
Just then a blue light appeared in the center of a swirling stairway. A dark figure then started to descend from the light. The woman looked then spoke in her robotic type manner. "The time has come for you to meet the world's greatest pokémon trainer, the ruler of New Island and soon the whole world, Mewtwo." Mewtwo landed on the platform. His eyes still glowed as he raised a hand. "Your usefulness has ended." Mewtwo announced. The woman then fell to the floor and her cap fell off to reveal a Nurse Joy.
James got on a small walkie-talkie and whispered into it. "Hey Con it's James have you found another way in?"
"Read you loud and clear James. Yes we have found another in. We are in a lab that appears to be a cloning hatchery." Con reported.
Mewtwo then started to give a speech. "I was not born a pokémon I was created and my creators have used and betrayed me, now I stand alone I will purge this world of all who oppose me human and pokémon alike. The rain of Mewtwo will soon begin."
Blair and Con busted through the doors. Everyone turned to see them enter. Jessie then started the team's motto. "Prepare for Trouble from the Skies,"
"From beyond the stars, a nasty surprise," James stated.
"An evil as old as the galaxy," Blair said as she took her place next to James
"Sent here to fulfill our destiny," Con said taking his place next to Jessie.
"And don't forget me," Meowth said as he jumped on Dark King's head.
"Or me!" Dark King cried cringing under Meowth's weight.
"To denounce the evils of truth and love," Jessie and James said in unison.
"To extend our reach to the stars above," Blair and Con stated together.
"Jessie,"
"James,"
"Blair,"
"Con,"
"Dark King, and…"
"…Meowth now dat's a name!" Meowth cried as he jumped of Dark King.
"Whenever there is good in the universe…" Jessie and Blair both said together.
"…Team Rocket…" James and Con said with evil grins.
"…Will be there…" Meowth and Dark King said while Meowth hopped back on Dark King's head.
"…To make everything worse!" They all shouted together.
Dark King fell to the floor from Meowth's weight. "Meowth, would you mind GETTING OFF OF ME?" Meowth quickly jumped off.
"Sorry."
Mewtwo glared at Team Rocket. "So you are Team Rocket? Well then I will just have to dispose of you."
"Maybe the motto wasn't da best idea." Meowth proclaimed.
"Well then it looks like Team Rocket is blasting off again!" Dark King said as he and the rest of Team Rocket bolted for the door. Before they could exit the door slammed shut on them. "Well that failed!" Dark King said with and anime sweat drop.
"Give me one good reason why I should not take you out right now." Mewtwo stated dryly.
"Because you resent Giovanni and all he stands for. Killing us would make you no better than he is." Dark King said with his arms crossed.
Mewtwo narrowed his eyes. "I don't care about being better or worse than Giovanni. I just want my revenge on the humans for what they did to me."
"Mewtwo, I understand you are angry with the humans but not all of them are like Giovanni. As for the scientist who created you, Dr. Fuji, he only wanted to use cloning to revive his daughter Amber. You may not remember Ambertwo but you two were good friends until she died along with Charmandertwo, Squirtletwo, and Bulbasaurtwo. You were so full of sadness it threatened your life as well. So the scientists tried to wipe your memory of Ambertwo and the other clones to calm you down and keep you from dying." Dark King said with a look of pity.
"How do you know so much?" Mewtwo asked.
"I am one of the higher ranking Rockets so I have access even to your files. As for Dr. Fuji his true intentions for the cloning project were clear to even the newest of grunts. Giovanni only wanted to control the most powerful pokémon the world as ever known. Dr. Fuji knew this but he needed the funding Giovanni offered. Fuji did not care about the power or the wealth his project would generate all he cared about was reviving his daughter. Although now Giovanni probably won't let me or my teammates into restricted files since we have failed many times lately." Dark King said with some regret.
"So you expect me to believe you?"
"No, I expect you to do what you believe is right."
Mewtwo pondered for a minute or two. He then decided to go with his plans.
-I am too lazy to write the whole battle sequence so just watch the movie-
Team Rocket woke up on New Island. New Island was lush and green and untouched by manmade structures (yah right). Jessie looked around and notice the Island was void of any life except for her teammates. "I have no idea how we got here but…"
James cut her off. "…who cares this is paradise!"
Meowth nodded. "Another happy ending."
Dark King knew they were there for a reason but he could not remember why. "Anyone else get the feeling like they are forgetting something?"
Con nodded. "Yah actually I do. I just can't remember what." Con then saw The Rocket in the sky. "Hey boss how do we get back on The Rocket from here?"
Dark King pulled the ship towards them with his psychic powers. He then parked the ship on the opposite side of the island. "There now since that is solved…Ahh!"
Jessie kicked Dark King in the back of the head. "Why in the world did you put it clear over there?" She screamed.
"So we can build our new home base here!" Dark King said giving her a death glair.
-Two Months Later-
The home base was two times the size of The Rocket. It had ten bedrooms, ten bathrooms, a foyer, a computer room, the legends room was moved from the ship and put into one of the rooms in the base, a dining hall, a lab, two hangers, and a two level basement. Altogether there was six floors. The lower levels were the labs and the Water-Hanger. The top floor was the Sky-Hanger. The Sky-Hanger was made large enough to house The Rocket. A replica of the legends room was made for The Rocket so they could still have access to all of the world's legends.
Two days after the bases completion The Rocket and its crew went to the Orange Islands to pursue Ash and Pikachu. The ship was just above the islands of fire, ice, and lightning. Meowth looked out the window and noticed the islands right away. "Hey Darky check it out we're near the islands of fire, ice, and lightning."
"Yes Meowth I know. Moltres the bird of fire, Zapdos the bird of lighting, and Aritcuno the bird of ice reside here and protect the balance. Although I fear the balance maybe in danger, we need to keep an eye on them. James, deploy a surveillance drone to keep watch." James nodded and punched in the codes to deploy the drone.