Two days later…
Yohana sighed as she put on her new Team Rocket uniform over her clothes. She'd never wanted this to happen, but she just couldn't lose her Ash.
"The boss wants to see you." A Team Rocket agent told her when she was done.
Yohana nodded. "I'm coming." She glanced once more in the mirror before following the agent to the boss's office. Stepping inside, she said. "You wanted to see me, sir?"
Giovanni smirked at her. "I have a mission for you."
Yohana gulped. "You do?"
Giovanni nodded. "You are to capture Entei."
Yohana's eyes widened. "WHAT?"
Giovanni's smirk deepened. "That is… unless you want to lose your precious boyfriend…"
Yohana trembled. She was stuck in between her loyalty to Ash and her loyalty to the pokemon who had raised her over the past five years. What should she do?
"You have a week. Fail and your boyfriend dies." Giovanni told her. "Now go."
Yohana bowed her head and started to leave the room uneasily. Then, she thought of something.
Turning back, she spoke quietly. "Before I leave, may I please see him? Just one time?"
Giovanni thought that over for a moment. "Fine, but don't you dare try anything. Cassidy, lead her to the boy."
Yohana followed a blonde agent deemed Cassidy down to the dungeons. She soon found that it certainly wouldn't be easy to rescue Ash as he was being held in one of the most high-security cells there.
Cassidy spoke to the guards, who opened the cell for them. Yohana hesitated before stepping inside.
"You have ten minutes. Make it quick." Cassidy told her.
Yohana gave a small nod showing she understood before the cell door was closed behind her. She looked around and finally spotted her best friend huddled in a corner. The boy looked a little different than when she last saw him, which was no surprise since it had been five years since that day she was forced to flee Pallet Town.
"Ash?" She whispered.
"What do you want?" Ash snapped weakly.
"It's me. Yohana." Yohana told him.
Ash's eyes widened and he looked away. "You're lying. Yohana would never join Team Rocket."
Yohana gulped. "She would if they threatened to kill her best friend if she didn't." Ash slowly looked back at her as she dropped to her knees. "I'm sorry, Ash! They said they'd kill you! I couldn't let them! And now they want me to capture Entei! What do I do, Ash? I don't know what to do!"
Ash crawled over to the now crying girl. "Yohana. Don't capture Entei. He's cared for you more than I have over the past few years. Don't betray him."
"But Entei can escape, Ash! You can't!" Yohana pointed out.
"I don't care, Yohana! Don't misuse Entei's trust!" Ash begged. "Entei doesn't deserve to be captured!"
Yohana stood up. "I won't let them kill you, Ash. That's final."
She knocked on the door to signal she was done. As she left the cell, she glanced back at Ash one last time. The boy was staring at her sadly, begging with his eyes for her to listen to him.
Yohana looked away as the door closed behind her.