Chapter 4

Archie and Maxie

The boat had finally docked in Lilycove City. Leaf along with most of the other passengers disembarked and she made her way towards the Contest Hall. She was never as good a trainer as Red or Blue but she had become a master coordinator. On the other hand when contests first came to Kanto, Red tried to participate in one and he failed miserably because his Snorlax attacked the other participants' Pokémon and then took a nap.

'We're now beginning the Beauty Contest, Normal Rank!' The MC announced, 'Here are the entrants and their Pokémon!' Their was a roar of cheering from the crowd as the MC announced, 'First we have Jack from Fallabor Town with his Sandslash! Next we have May from Petalburg City with her Beautifly! Here's someone from far away, Leaf from Pallet Town with her Ninetales and last, but not least, someone else from far away, Patch from Fuchsia City with his Hitmontop!' Over the top of all the cheering, Patch yelled out, 'It's not Patch–' Leaf could swear she heard a woman cutting him off by saying, 'Be quiet!'

The contest was a beautiful show from all the Pokémon. Leaf's Ninetales was doing really well. This was until May called, 'Beautifly! Show them your Sleep Powder!' This ended up putting Ninetales to sleep, and one that it would take a while to wake up from.

'Now I'm in trouble,' Leaf said, 'Ninetales wake up and use Fire Spin!' That did no good. Not only did Ninetales not wake up but also the word trouble really sparked trouble.

'Prepare for trouble!' said the same voice Leaf heard earlier.

'Make it double!' said Patch.

'To infect the world with devastation!' the woman said as Patch said, 'To blight all peoples in every nation!'

'To denounce the goodness of truth and love!'

'To extend our wrath to the stars above!'

'Cassidy!' said the woman as she jumped from the audience to stand next to Patch who then said his real name, 'Butch!'

'Team Rocket circling Earth all day and night!' Cassidy said followed by Butch saying, 'Surrender to us now or you will surely lose the fight!'

'That's right!' they said together. After they finished this more Team Rocket grunts piled into the hall followed and started stealing Pokémon. After every trainer and coordinator was being held hostage, a man with bright teal hair who was wearing a black suit with a red "R" pinned to the lapel and a black beret. The fact that he was wearing a suit indicated that he was superior to Butch and Cassidy. This was confirmed by them saying, 'Proton, sir!'

'Giovanni will certainly be pleased with what you've done here,' Proton said, 'We're doing so much better here in Hoenn with him back than we did in Johto two years ago.'

'Congratulations sir,' Butch said.

'Don't congratulate me Butch,' Proton said, 'Congratulate the whole team.'

'Maybe not Jessie or her good for nothing partner, James,' Cassidy said.

'Regardless it won't be long before we can return to Kanto and Johto,' Proton told them, 'Soon we will be in control of three regions.'

'Not if I have anything to say about it,' a rough looking man said, 'Stop doing what your doing Team Rocket!'

'We do what we like,' Proton said to the man. 'Who are you?'

'I'm Archie, leader of Team Aqua,' the man said, 'we had gained a lot of power here in Hoenn five years ago. But our plans to expand the sea failed dismally. Now I understand it was wrong.'

'I would expect ridiculous plans like that would fail, Archie,' Proton told him. 'Simpler plans, like ours of stealing Pokémon for profit, are much more likely to succeed.'

'It's still wrong!' another man said. This man had shoulder length red hair and he didn't look as rough as Archie. 'I'm Maxie, leader of Team Magma. We also gained a lot of power here in Hoenn at the same time that Team Aqua did. Our plans of expanding the landmass failed dismally as well. It just became war.'

'More ridiculous plans,' Proton said.

'Sir,' Butch said to Proton, 'two girls got out of the hall and they freed all the Pokémon to beat the grunts.'

'Go and stop them,' Proton ordered. Less than a minute later Proton heard May shout, 'Fire Punch Blaziken!' Then he heard Cassidy grunting. Then he heard Leaf say, 'Venusaur use Vine Whip on Biff!' Then he heard Butch say, 'It's Butch, not Biff!' Then he heard a crash then Butch and Cassidy shouting, 'Team Rocket's blasting off again!' May and her Blaziken came in with Leaf and her Venusaur.

'Go Weezing,' Proton called. He had three grunts come to help by using Sandshrew, Raticate and Golbat.

'Blaziken,' May said. 'Use Blaze Kick.'

'Vine Whip Venusaur!' Leaf ordered.

'Go Sharpedo!' Archie said. 'Use Crunch!'

'I choose Camerupt!' Maxie called. 'Use Mud Shot!' Team Rocket lost the battle and after that all their agents escaped from the building.

'Thanks for your help May,' Archie said.

'No problem,' May replied.

'Thanks to you as well Leaf,' Maxie said. Archie jumped on his Dragonite and Maxie got on his Crobat and the both left.

'I can't believe Team Rocket's back,' Leaf said.

'I don't like them,' May said, 'but if Archie and Maxie are trying to stop them than we have both Team Aqua and Team Magma are against them.'

'That's true,' Leaf said, 'but what if they return to Kanto before either of those teams manage to stop them?'