The Year of Rocket's Revenge
Session: June, Part 4 (06.13.06/07.02.10)


Wednesday, June 4th, Indigo Plateau

An exorbitant number of men and women dressed in Team Rocket uniforms had been gathered along Route 23, and their line-up stretched at least as far as Victory Road, from what League officials could see.

Somewhere near the front of the mass of operatives was a group of battleships capable of flight, but at the moment, they were all parked on the ground. On top of one of them was Domino, who was in the midst of relaying orders to the numerous squadron leaders, both those standing in front of her and those further back in the formation, who were listening in via radio because they couldn't get to the ship.

Inside that very ship, Giovanni was in the midst of a video conference with the Elite Four. Or, at least those currently present, which at this point consisted solely of Lance and...

Lance. Just Lance.

"Just face it," Giovanni said to Lance. "With your fellow Elites scattered to the corners of the region, your gym leaders missing or disposed of, and the region on the verge of descending into anarchy, you simply have no choice."

Lance grumbled as he glanced down at a ten-page document that had been delivered to his doorstep earlier that morning.

"You expect me to agree to the terms specified in here?"

Giovanni smiled. "Like I said, you have no choice. I'm giving you the opportunity to keep your pathetic League alive."

"At this cost? Diluting our tournaments by holding them every week? Stipulating that any winner must not only agree to join Team Rocket, but give up their most valuable Pokémon as well? You taking my place as head of the Elite Four, as well as taking over all the duties and responsibilities of the position, in order to rearrange the League as you see fit?"

"You forgot the most important part."

"And what would that be?"

"No one has to get killed."

Lance then heard a roar in the distance. He turned around to look out his window, and gasped in shock when he saw two Charizard flying around one of the smaller stadium venues, using Fire Spin and Flamethrower as they attempted to burn it to the ground.

"That was a warning shot," Giovanni told him. "I will make sure the next attack will be on an occupied structure."

Giovanni then snapped his fingers. Lance turned his attention back out the window, and saw the two Charizard stop their attack and immediately fly back towards Route 23. He then looked down and saw the local fire department mobilizing to try and save what was left of the battlefield.

"I'll be calling you back in two hours. Pray you decide to make the right choice."

With that, Giovanni hung up. Lance slammed both of his fists down on the desk in frustration.

"Where's a hero when you need one?"


Cerulean City Pokémon Center

Ash was sitting in the lobby, accompanied by many of the refugees from the makeshift village underneath Pewter City, as well as some of the members of the PTA splinter cell. He was near the videophones, watching as some of the displaced men and women called relatives and friends across the country. Others were standing at or near the front desk, as humans and Pokémon alike were getting treatment, food, and new clothes. Two Nurse Joys, the one from Pewter and the one from here in Cerulean, were helping the recovery effort, along with medical staff from the local hospital.

The lobby was also filled with many of the city's own populace, also looking for treatment after Team Rocket surprisingly had lifted their grip of the city a couple days ago. A couple of the rogue PTA agents were standing outside the front doors, controlling a crowd outside that was getting larger by the hour.

"Please form an orderly line!" one of them shouted through a megaphone. "We are receiving several shipments from Saffron City in the coming hours, and there is more than enough to go around! We ask that you please remain in line unless you have legitimate, life-threatening medical issues!"

As the agent continued to address the crowd, another was trying to open a path for Joel and Misty, who were trying to get in. The young gym leader, who had become the face of Cerulean City in recent months, was being bombarded equally by cheers and jeers alike.

"Misty's come back to save us!"

"She abandoned us! She's no better than Team Rocket!"

"You're the only reason I still have hope!"

"She's too scared to fight Team Rocket!"

"You should be risking your life for us!"

"Tell these non-believers that everything will be okay!"

Misty looked as if she wanted to respond to some of the comments, but Joel ushered her inside before she could.

"Trust me," he told her, "you're better off saying nothing now then risking having the crowd completely turn on you at the sound of one wrong word."

Misty and Joel walked over to Ash, who got up to greet them.

"Rough crowd?" asked Ash.

"Very," replied Misty. "So, I hope you have good news?"

Ash nodded. "I talked to Nurse Joy a little while ago, and the treatment was a success. Horsea will make a full recovery."

Misty was elated. "That's great news!"

"You'll be able to see her later, after she's gotten some rest. So... how about you? Good news?"

Misty tensed up, as she quickly became worrisome.

"We... we weren't able to get close enough to find out. Those two, Calamity and Jane... still have the place locked up pretty tight."

"It is weird," Joel thought out loud, "how the majority of Team Rocket's forces would leave except for those at the gym. It's allowing the rest of the city to return to some state of normalcy. But what I don't understand is why..."

"This might help..." Ash said, as he pulled out his Pokédex.

Ash's face grew serious as he pressed a few buttons, allowing the device to display a holographic image of a large bunch of Team Rocket's forces preparing for an attack.

"This was sent to me 15 minutes ago. Team Rocket's gathering a massive invasion force."

"But... where are they?" Misty asked.

"The one place that would send the entire region into anarchy if Team Rocket ever got a hold of it," Joel figured out.

"That's right," Ash nodded. "The Indigo Plateau."


Meanwhile, Lance was in the midst of another teleconference. This time, he was talking with Lorelei, communicating from the Azalea Town Pokémon Center, Bruno, from within the Cianwood City gym, and Agatha, from the front lines in Vermilion City.

"We swore that we would never give in to someone as evil as the likes of Team Rocket!" Agatha exclaimed. "You're asking us to agree to surrender to the likes of them?"

"I side with Lady Agatha," Bruno added. "Is there nothing we can do to keep this from happening?"

"Don't you think that I've already existed all of the other options at this point?" Lance shouted at them. "There are only two outs left to us: agreeing to surrender, allowing us to maintain a League, even if under Team Rocket's control, or not surrendering, and being caught up in a war that we have virtually no chance of winning!"

"We should plea for help from the nations of the world," suggested Lorelei.

"We've already tried that," Lance shot her down. "None of them believed our situation merited intervention. And even if they changed their mind now, it would be weeks before any sustained foreign force could come in and change the tide."

"So we give up without a fight?" Agatha scowled. "Is that the lasting image of the League you want to leave behind?"

"We must do what's right for the people," stated Lorelei.

"If we let Giovanni claim victory without a fight," Bruno noted, "it's going to be much harder to wrestle power back when we do have the numbers!"

"I don't want to give in to the demands of Giovanni and Team Rocket either..." Lance growled, "but even if all of us, including Koga, were here, we wouldn't be able to stand up to the sheer power that they have brought to our doorstep. In addition, all our forces are scattered all over the region."

"Also," Bruno recalled, "the next generation has not lived up to expectations. Marco Pereira is now working with the enemy. Cassie Banks has been out-of-contact after the incident in Saffron that jeopardized her current assignment. Ash Ketchum was in Team Rocket's clutches, but rumors have it that he's escaped and is staying off the radar to avoid capture. Gary Oak is the only one we have contact with, but he can't even get out of Pallet Town!"

"In short, the Junior Master experiment was a complete bust," stated Agatha. "What a waste of time!"

"The inevitable seems to be upon us," realized Lorelei.

"Agreed," Bruno added.

Agatha sighed. "And here I thought my retirement was going to be a peaceful one."

Lance solemnly nodded. "Then, it's unanimous. The Pokémon League is now..."


"Under the control of Team Rocket!"

Members of Team Rocket cheered in glee, while the citizens of the Indigo Plateau lowered their heads in dismay, as that evening Lance made the League's surrender official to the entire world. A podium had been set up the League Headquarters building, where Giovanni was waiting with the 12-page surrender document and a pen.


Around the region, people who still had access to TVs were also watching the live press conference. From the ravaged ruins of Pewter City, where the Team Rocket encampment rejoiced at the announcement, to Vermilion City, where Lieutenant Surge cursed at the TV as Agatha started packing her bags in the background.

"As part of the terms of the League's surrender," Lance stated, "upon the signature of the document stating such, I, Lance, as head of the Elite Four, must relinquish my most powerful Pokémon to Team Rocket. I must also swear my allegiance to the organization. The other members of the Elite Four, including those that have stepped down from it in the past year, will be escorted as soon as possible back here to the Indigo Plateau, where they will be required to do the same..."


But as the press conference continued, there was one place that didn't have a working TV to watch it on. That was at the Cerulean City Pokémon Center, where at that moment, Ash and Misty were actively assisting the PTA splinter cell and the local police in making sure things stayed under control as supplies continued to be given out. They were unaware of what was going on at the Indigo Plateau at that very moment.

Pikachu was hanging out with an Eevee, an Oddish, and a male Nidoran, who were all chatting as a few intrigued little kids watched. Ash was behind the desk with the two Joys and a few others, helping check Pokémon in and out of treatment.

"There you go!" Ash exclaimed, handing a tray with three Pokéballs in it to a little girl.

"Thank you!"

As for Misty, she was wandering elsewhere in the building, doing visual checks on all of the people and Pokémon who were bedridden with injuries and illness.

Back up front, Ash was writing numbers on small pieces of paper to tape onto trays so that people's Pokémon didn't get mixed up. He looked up to greet another trainer in need...

"What Pokémon do you need to get..."

He didn't finish his sentence, as he saw Joel standing in front of him. And the look on his face was not one of happiness. It was one of grave concern.

"Don't ask any questions... just follow me. Now!"

Ash nodded, unsure of what was going on but sensing that something was wrong. As he got up and followed Joel back towards the patients' rooms.

Pikachu's ears perked up when he picked up the sound of Ash moving over the multitude of noises in the packed lobby. Pikachu waved goodbye to his new friends, who were all confused over his sudden departure, as the electric mouse made his way through the crowd and to the back.

Once back in the halls leading to the patients' room, which were off-limits to everyone but Center employees and authorized visitors, Pikachu caught up to Ash, who was being led by Joel towards the back of the facility.

"Hey, Joel... what's going on?"

"I told you to not ask questions! There isn't time!"

Near the back, they were met by Maron and Misty, the latter with Horsea clutched in her arms. The two agents nodded before leading them in the direction of the loading dock.

"Misty, do you know what's going on?"

"All Maron would tell me is that our lives are in danger!"

"What?"


Seconds later, the group emerged from the loading docks at the back of the building. There, they found Officer Jenny and one of her deputies waiting for them with two mountain bikes.

"If anyone asks," Joel said to the duo as he handed Ash a small coin purse, "you found these bikes abandoned on the street. The police DID NOT give them to you to escape!"

"Escape from what?" Ash asked. "What the hell's going on?"

"Guys, this is very important!" Jenny exclaimed as she approached them. "I need to know... is there a place you can go from here? A friend you can trust that will be able to hide you?"

Ash and Misty looked at each other, trying to rack their brains while wondering simultaneously why Jenny would ask them that.

"I have an idea," Ash proclaimed, before hesitantly looking at Misty, "but I'm not sure if Misty's gonna like it..."

"Who?"

"Don't tell us!" Jenny stopped him from answering. "Just go there and stay there!"

"You must promise me you'll go straight there!" Joel shouted at them. "You are the Pokémon League's last hope! If Team Rocket gets a hold of you again..."

Ash and Misty gasped.

"Again? What do you..."

"Go! Go!"

Misty pulled out Horsea's Pokéball and recalled her water-type back into it. She and Ash then got onto the bikes, with Pikachu hopping atop Ash's handlebars. Jenny and her deputy slapped helmets on their heads, and then pushed them off.

"Wait!" Misty shouted back.

"Yeah!" Ash did likewise. "What about the refugees?"

"We'll worry about them!" Joel yelled as they pedaled away, "Just get out of the city and keep from getting found!"


Ash and Misty made their way to the southern edge of the city, in the direction of Route 5. But as they approached it, they saw three very muscular men appear, intending to block their way.

"There they are!" one of them yelled.

"They're not abandoning us this time!" shouted the second.

"Anything for the survival of Cerulean City!" exclaimed the third.

"What do we do now?" Misty asked Ash. "Joel told us not to stop for anything!"

Ash quickly racked his brain, trying to think of a solution. But someone apparently thought ahead for him, as an Ice Beam came out of nowhere. It froze the three men in one huge block of ice that encased even their heads. Taking advantage of this stroke of luck, Ash and Misty raced past the frozen heavies, escaping the city limits and making it to Route 5.

Up on the rooftop of a nearby building, a Spearow had filmed the whole thing with a small video camera hanging from his neck with a thin rope. He then started heading back towards the Center, aiming the camera downward to point it at a Dewgong that was in an alley below, and was also heading back.


Back inside the Pokémon Center, Joel and Maron had watched the whole event unfold on Joel's laptop.

"It looks like they got away, sir," Maron stated aloud.

Joel nodded. "We've done all we can. The rest is up to them."


And so, traveling on their new bicycles, Ash and Misty made their way through the center of the Kanto region. They stealthily moved from route to route and city to city. As they did, they became aware of what was going on.

Team Rocket, under the direction of Giovanni, had taken control of the Pokémon League after forcing Lance and the rest of the Elite Four to unconditionally surrender to them. As a result, chaos began to envelope the region as Team Rocket also began replacing local governments all around.

Even Saffron City, the only major city that hadn't been subjected to any attempt at invasion, had no choice but to submit when Team Rocket finally decided to come to their doorstep. The lone exception was Sabrina and the team of psychics she had been training to defend the city. They decided to take shelter in the gym, refusing to submit to a Pokémon League run by Team Rocket. Despite their defiance, Giovanni decided to let Sabrina do what she wanted... for the time being.

That was because, as Ash and Misty had learned, that Giovanni had turned the region's attention to capturing five rogue trainers. He had explained that they were the reason that Team Rocket wanted to take control of the Pokémon League. They knew what these young prodigies were capable of, and were doing nothing to curb their power. He called them a greater threat to peace and stability in the region than Team Rocket had been or ever would be. It was for that reason that Giovanni promised a return to the way things were if all five of them were brought to him, dead or alive. A reason that proved to be just believable enough for the general populace to want to turn against these five and blame them for everything bad that has happened in the past year.

It was all made clear when 'Wanted' posters started popping up everywhere. On them, the faces of the five teenagers.

Ash Ketchum, Misty Waterflower, Brock Slate, Giselle Gravelpot, and League Junior Master Cassie Banks.


Saturday, June 28th

Three and a half weeks had passed since Ash and Misty had left Cerulean City. Thanks to some assistance from a few random strangers on their long journey, who had no idea who they were but got them enough food and supplies to get from city to city, they had made it. Good thing too, because they had spent all the money Joel had given them, and Ash and Misty were a meal away from having to eat Pokémon food and berries for nourishment.

But after seeing where their journey had taken them, Misty wasn't too pleased with her boyfriend.

"Of all the people you had to pick... it was HER?"

"It was the first person that came to mind," defended Ash. "And despite our long trip, she WAS the closest person that we knew that we could trust!"

Misty huffed as Ash headed for the front door, walking past a sign that read 'Imite House.' Pikachu followed Ash, and Misty reluctantly did the same. The only other option she had was waking up the next morning as a wild trainer...

Ash knocked on the door, and it wasn't long before the door was opened.

"Hello? Who is it?"

A redhead was standing in the doorway, cooling herself with a handheld fan as she stood there, dressed in only a white one-piece swimsuit. She also had her hair combed over, in such an odd way that... it actually looked the exact same way Misty's had when they left Cerulean City.

"Whoa," Ash's heart nearly stopped, "You've really, really gotten good at your imitations! I'm very close to thinking you two are long, lost twin sisters!"

Misty, on the other hand, was unimpressed as she clenched her fist in anger.

"How dare you... are you straight-up mocking me now?"

The girl, though, didn't seem to know whom Misty was talking about.

"I assure you," she replied intelligently, "my attention was never to mock, but rather pay tribute to a very talented water Pokémon trainer!"

"Flattery will get you nowhere!" Misty shot back.

"Huh?"

"You went and kissed my boyfriend on New Year's Eve, ran away without thinking of explaining your actions to me, and now you think interpreting me as a smart, intelligent, reasonable woman will get you off the hook? Well, you're just plain WRONG, SISTER!"

The girl took a step back indoors, beginning to fear for her own safety. Misty responded by taking a step forward.

"And you're as hot-tempered as I thought you'd be..."

"HOT-TEMPERED? I'LL SHOW YOU HOT-TEMPERED!"

Misty raised her fist to punch the lookalike in the face, but stopped short when she heard another voice approaching them from inside the house.

"What's with all the noise? Ditto's napping!"

Ash and Misty looked past the girl standing in front of them and were surprised when Duplica walked into the entranceway, dressed in an orange crop top with a yellow star pattern on it and slightly worn blue jeans. Duplica was equally surprised at the sight of Ash and Misty.

So much so that time seemed to stop for a few seconds as everyone stood perfectly still.

"DUPLICA!" Misty yelled, getting in her face. "HOW DARE YOU TRICK ME LIKE THAT?"

"I swear I can explain everything!" the performer pleaded, waving her arms around in a panic.

As Misty started yelling at Duplica, Ash turned his head to look at Misty, then Duplica, then the girl in front of him whom they thought was Duplica dressed as Misty, and then back at Misty.

"Man," he thought aloud as he scratched his head, "and here I thought I had finally figured out girls."


Minutes later, the group, minus the other imitating girl, was sitting at a roundtable in the dining room. Pikachu and Ditto were chatting on the side, trying to catch up... but found it hard to keep doing so as the drama between Ash, Misty, and Duplica unfolded before them.

"So THAT'S your side of the story?"

Duplica had just explained how the kiss had unfolded from her perspective, and Misty was processing it, trying to figure out how to react. Ash, caught in the middle of this triangle, decided he needed to react before this got out of hand.

"I say you forgive her... she told you the exact same story I told you about that night. I thought we were past this!"

"I may have forgiven you, but I haven't forgiven HER!"

"Misty, please!" begged Duplica. "This was six months ago! You don't think that this hasn't been eating at me all this time?"

"How about my feelings, huh? To think, my best friend kissed my boyfriend, and couldn't even woman up to it to tell me why in person! You had to wait until he dragged me here on an unrelated matter, half a year after the fact?"

"I wanted to have my say, but I was afraid!"

"Afraid of what?"

"OF YOU REACTING LIKE THIS!"

Misty realized Duplica was right. She knew her temper made her unapproachable at times. She had been working on fixing that recently. And yet, the thought of coming face-to-face with her best friend, after knowing she kissed her boyfriend behind her back, was making it hard to control her emotions.

"It's just... you know... after losing TJ... I... I..."

"Duplica..."

"I turned to the only other boy that I really liked in that way. And I know it was wrong, because you and Ashy-boy... I mean, Ash, were starting to get romantic. But I couldn't let go of my feelings for Ash. I... I couldn't help myself. And then when he asked me to teach him how to romance you..."

Misty shook her head and... to Duplica's surprise, smiled.

"Oh, Duplica. You seem to have the same problem as me."

"And what's that?"

"We can't help but fall in love with adorable knuckleheads."

"Tee hee," Duplica laughed.

"Knucklehead?" Ash suddenly jumped in, his blood starting to boil. "I'm starting to mature, damn it!"

But it was clear he wasn't yet, at least to the girls, as they continued to laugh as he shouted at them in his misguided attempt to prove them wrong.

Finally, after a few seconds, they all calmed down, and it seemed that Misty had finally forgiven Duplica.

"So... we're all cool, Misty?"

"Uh huh."

"And I can still be friends with you and Ash?"

"Of course."

"Yippee!"

Duplica hugged Misty, then afterwards reached across the table to hug Ash... until Misty reached in with her arm, blowing a whistle she pulled out of nowhere to stop her from going any further.

"Hey, I said friends, Duplica! NOT friends with benefits!"

"Can't blame a girl for trying," Duplica said with a wink.

"So... you all have finally worked out your complicated little love triangle?"

The girl from earlier, now dressed in a more pedestrian outfit consisting of a green short sleeve shirt and a pink and white flower-print skirt, entered the room carrying a tray with four cups of tea on it.

"Sorry," she said, "but all we have is tea."

"It's been hard to get out and go grocery shopping," Duplica told them. "But I guess you'd know that by now, given the last few weeks."

Ash and Misty nodded.

"This is Angela, by the way," Duplica said as the girl started placing the cups on the table. "She dropped by about two days ago."

"Pleased to meet you all!" Angela greeted.

"Do you two know each other from somewhere?" Misty asked.

Duplica chuckled. "That's the funny thing... we had never met before the other day."

"What?" Ash shouted. "Really?"

"Uh huh! But she told me that she knew you two!"

"But... we've never met before," Misty commented as she looked at Angie again, now that she... didn't look exactly like her.

"Not only that, but she told me the strangest thing. You remember the OTHER incident from last New Year's Eve, right?"

Ash nodded, intrigued at where Duplica was going with this, as Misty raised her cup to take a sip of tea.

"She told me that the gym leader from Celadon City... you know, the one who died in that explosion? Well, she told me that Erika is still alive!"

Ash nearly jumped out of his seat, while Misty spat out her tea. Both turned to look at Angela, who was strangely smiling, and the room turned cold as the trio stared at each other.

"How does she know..." Misty thought to herself.

"How did she find out..." Ash thought to himself.

"THAT ERIKA IS STILL ALIVE?" they asked themselves in unison.

End Session: June
Storyline to be concluded in Session: July Once Again!


Author's Notes for 'Session: June':
How's THAT for a revelation, folks?

Before I get to that, let me talk about a few other things first.

I don't think it's stretching too much to think that someone that gets put in solitary confinement in jail has no access to a shower. After all, no access to anyone else literally means no access! Why would they let someone being held there go clean themselves off on a daily basis? Even if they made it so that the prisoner was the only one in the bathroom... why would they go that far for someone that's being severely punished?

I guess in this case that also applies to the toilet. Maybe Ash and Misty should be glad they couldn't see anything in their cell for a week...

Yeah... sorry for giving you a mental image I was trying to avoid presenting in the first place...

It looks like Professor Werner Geissler has gone from a washed-up professor a curious gym leader named Erika found in Germany, to a top-notch, pay-for-hire scientist unwilling to compromise morals for the completion of his research. How things change...

If Giselle's now a vegetable, she's the most attractive one in the entire world...

Oh, and let's now forget her 'farmer,' Cassie! Where's she?

Did any of you remember that, back at the Pokémon League Novice Tournament, Marco was representing Viridian City. Be truthful... did any of you back then see that red flag pointing his eventual decision to join Team Rocket? Also, I'm sure at this point that Marco has told everyone he's going by Mark now... right?

Joel Orino and his team makes his third appearance in the story. The first was back at the library in Olivine City to save Erika. The second was sort of avenging of her death in a direct attack on Team Rocket's headquarters to obtain... an item of interest. Now he's saving Ash and Misty from possible death? I guess when the Pokémon Trainers' Association is trying to fold back into Team Rocket, which it originally spawned from, you try to get back at your parent company, so to speak.

This is also the first time that Joel and his younger brother Jude do not appear together, and thus, battle each other. That changes when you see the flashback to the PTA's origin a little later on in the session, but that was before they ended up on opposite sides of the fence.

I'm surely foreshadowing something between Ash and Mark...

So here's the reintroduction of some PTA members that go way back: Randy Vicardi, Jones McGray, and Patti Masters. These are familiar names if you've really been paying attention, though they were all more prominent characters in the original "Adventures Series" story. Will that change for the finale? It must... we haven't learned where Patti stands on the issue of the organization rejoining Team Rocket!

I do realize I've created a couple minuscule plotholes in the fourth chapter. I have reinserted the Cerulean Nurse Joy back in the picture even though she disappeared in the last session after she and Lily were captured by Jane and Calamity's force. A second hole emerged when Giovanni asks for the Elite Four to turn themselves. But remember, Agatha retired back in February, and her replacement Koga was last seen... you guessed it, last session, where he was being held captive and was going to be killed if Ash and Misty didn't cooperate.

But maybe that's covered up by the fact that we don't really know what happened to Koga. Or, the fact I forgot to mention what happened to him.

Then again, maybe that's how I explain how Misty's sisters are still alive even after Ash and Misty's escape...

If you're wondering why Lorelei and Bruno are both in Johto instead of Kanto, where almost all of Team Rocket's invasions have taken place, it's because they were preparing to help the cities of Johto had Team Rocket decided to move westward. Obviously, that matters little now, with the Elite Four's surrender.

Now, I know I'm probably going to get some guff for skipping over stuff like the brief mention of Sabrina continuing to defy Team Rocket, but the reasons why she is refusing surrender aren't really important at this point. They are important, just now at this very moment...

You know I had to address this plot thread at some point... Misty seeing Duplica for the first time since finding out about 'the kiss.' I felt this had to be resolved, as this is I believe the last non-Rocket one I had hanging. That, and I was desperately trying to find a way to have Duplica avoid NOT being part of the finale.

As for the ending... nope, not gonna say anything! I'll let you have at that. Besides, if you're reading the chaptered version, you're gonna get a solution in a few days.


'Session: July Once Again' Trailer:
Kanto is now under the complete control of Team Rocket. But before they can turn their attention to the rest of the world, there are five pests that they must do away with once and for all. Ash Ketchum leads the region's last hope for bringing peace back. If he and his friends fail, the Year of Rocket's Revenge will finally be complete.

The end arrives as we see 'Session: July Once Again.'