Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon. If i did Ash would win something for a change.

A/N: Thank you for your patience. This was one of the chapters that was deleted, so i had to start from scratch. Apology for the shortness.

Fuchsia City Training Field

Ash stood watching each of his Pokemon train. In the short time they had all been together, they had all improved so much. Ash had left Sabrina in bed and decided that he would try get some training in before they sailed to Cinnabar Island, where he was hoping to win his seventh badge. Ash attention was suddenly drawn to a bush rustling. Out of it came running a small fox type Pokemon, however it wasn't a Vulpix, it was completely black, minus a small tuff of red fur on its head and the red on it's four small paws. The small Pokemon raced behind him, and began shaking in fear. Ash wondered what could have happened for a Pokemon to act like this. His answer was confirmed as out of the bushes came three men in black jump suits with a huge red R in the middle of them. Ash frowned, Team Rocket were at it again. Ash turned his head and smiled down at the small Pokemon now hiding behind his legs. He then turned his attention back to the three men who were now closing in on him.

"Hey Kid, hand over that Pokemon now, and there won't be any trouble."

Ash just grinned, before grabbing one of his balls and pulling his cap down over his eyes. "Funny the impression I got was that this Pokemon doesn't want to go anywhere with you. So back off now, otherwise you won't like the consequences."

The three men looked at each other before one burst out laughing. "That's real funny kid, but if you hadn't noticed, we have you outnumbered 3 to 1. So just hand over the Pokemon and we will forget this whole deal."

Ash didn't move a muscle, he lifted his head, so only his eyes could be seen under his hat. "Fine, I gave you fair warning. Princess deal with these goons." Ash threw Mew's ball out in front of him, which popped open to reveal Mew floating.

The three Rocket agents eyes widened. "I thought you looked familiar. You're the kid with the Mew. Wait till the boss hears this. Heck we might even get promoted for catching it." The three agents then threw their own balls, out popped three Houndooms. They all growled at Mew, who seemed rather calm, even though she was facing three dark/fire duel types.

Ash frowned, this was not going to be easy, so he decided to even the odds by throwing another ball out in front of him. This time the ball opened up to reveal Milotic. "Princess use Aura sphere, Milotic use Water Pulse."

Mew formed a small sphere of aura before tossing it at one of the Houndooms, who yelped in pain, before fainting, Milotic then followed up with a pulse of water which hit the other Houndoom, causing that one to faint.

"Hmm Lucky shots kid. "Houndoom use Dark Pulse!" Houndoom growled before it's body gave off a purple aura, which was about to hit Mew. However just as the pulse was about to hit, Ash countered.

"Milotic, take that Dark Pulse, Princess Aura Sphere!" Milotic quickly moved in front of the Dark Pulse and took it head on, this gave Mew the time to form another Sphere of Aura, which she lopped at the remaining Houndoom, causing it to faint.

The three grunts, quickly recalled their Pokemon. "Retreat fall back." The three grunts then run off into the woods, leaving Ash alone once again on the training field. Ash thanked Milotic before recalling her, he then hugged Mew, who wanted to float around a little longer. His attention then turned to the small Pokemon that had been hiding behind him, who was now looking up at him, no longer shaking with fear. Ash grabbed Dexter and then pointed it at the small Pokemon. "Now lets just see what you are."

Zorua, the dark Illusion Pokemon. No further details due to this Pokemon, not be native to this region.

Ash placed Dexter back in his Pocket, before kneeling down and looking at the Zorua, who was now looking straight at Ash. "No doubt those guys stole you from your home. Hmm I wonder where you are from? Anyway those guys are gone now, so you can run off if you want."

Zorua turned to look at the woods. "Zorua scared, I don't like this place. Everything smells funny. Those bad men locked me up in a cage, and took me away from my mum."

Ash noticed the Zorua was now rubbing up against him. Ash sat crossed legged on the ground and allowed Zorua to come up onto his lap. Ash then stroked the small tuff of fur on top of it's head, much to Zorua enjoyment, who was now growling affectionately. "Well you are more then welcome to come with me. My names Ash Ketchum, and one day, I am going to be a Pokemon master."

Zorua looked up at Ash. "I don't mind, long as you don't use a cage like those bad men did. Rather be safe with you then wonder around this place on my own."

Ash smiled before taking an empty Poke ball from his belt. He then held it out for Zorua to see. Zorua sniffed the strange ball and accidentally touched it with his nose, causing the ball to activate. It was then sucked inside. Ash started to panic, because he didn't want to scare Zorua off. The ball shook for a few seconds before making a ping sound, to say the capture had been successful. Ash then opened the ball to see Zorua appear in front of him. Just as he did Ash noticed Pikachu and Sabrina walking over towards him. Ash smiled as Pikachu climbed up onto his shoulder, knocking Mew off in the process, much to Mews annoyance. Pikachu then noticed the new Pokemon.

"Hey boss, who's the small fry?"

Zorua growled. And then bared it's teeth. "Small fry! I'll show you." Zorua then glowed and transformed to an exact replica of Pikachu, much to the small mouse Pokemon surprise.

"Hey neat trick, can you juggle too?" Pikachu quickly leapt off Ash shoulder as a sphere of dark energy almost hit him. "Hey it was a joke. Cool down will you, or I will make you."

Zorua paid no attention to the threat and carried on using shadow ball. It raced after Pikachu, who suddenly stopped in it's track and turned showing sparks from it's cheeks. "Okay you asked for it." Pikachu then sent a bolt of electricity at Zorua. The bolt hit head on and caused Zorua to fly through the air, before landing with a crash in front of Ash.

"Ouch that hurt." Ash carefully picked up Zorua and placed him on his lap. He then went to his bag and pulled out some potion and began to spray Zorua healing it from it's injuries. Ash then noticed Pikachu was walking over towards him.

"Hey, I did warn him. Not my fault he didn't listen. Will say this though, the kids got guts."

Ash had to agree. He may be a small at the moment, but Ash knew, this little guy would come in handy when he had trained him up a little. Ash looked down to see Zorua had fallen asleep on his lap. He took Zorua ball and recalled him. Once Zorua was attached to his belt, he stood back up and greeted Sabrina with a cuddle and kiss, much to her approval. "Where's Knuckles?"

Sabrina herself was wondering that. Knuckles had left with her and Pikachu, but now he was no where to be seen. Suddenly a Blue and black blur shot down out of one of the trees. ""Sorry father, I just wanted to stretch my legs a little."

Ash was just happy that Lucario was okay. Especially with just running into Team Rocket. Lucario was considered a rare Pokemon in this region. Ash just smiled. "No problem Knuckles, just glad your okay. Oh by the way, allow me to introduce a new friend to the team." Ash removed Zorua ball from his belt and enlarged it. He then opened it and watched Zorua appear. "Say hello to Zorua. He is just like you Knuckles. Team Rocket took him from his home."

Sabrina eyes flashed. "Those good for nothing, thugs. I hope you sent them back to the hole they crawled out of."

Ash just nodded. "Yes I did. However I think we will be seeing them very soon. I use Princess, and one of them said that he was going to report back to his boss. So we better keep our eyes peeled."

Team Rocket Fuchsia City Outpost

The three grunts stood in front of a huge screen. On the screen was a man dressed in a suit, who was stroking a Persian just beside him. He did not look happy. "This is unacceptable, you allowed another rare specimen to escape, and then on top of that you three were beaten by a Thirteen year old child!"

The three grunts coward in front of their boss. "Forgive us sir please. It wasn't just any kid, it was the one you have been after, you know the one with the Mew."

Giovanni frowned at the three men. "That is no excuse, your grown men for for goodness sake. Even if it was the same boy, you should have overpowered him. Now for your punishment. Two weeks docked pay for start, and until I see some improvement then you will be getting no more funding for the outpost. As for the boy. Leave him to me. I already have two agents tracking him. You just concentrate on your jobs.!"

With that last statement the screen went black. All three grunts looked at each other. "Well at least he didn't fire us."

Team Rocket HQ

Giovanni, growled "Useless all of them. Simmons get in here now!"

A man dressed in a white lab coat quickly run into the room, before bowing his head. He couldn't see his boss as he was sitting back in the shadows. All the man could see was a jewel shining in the middle of the darkness, which he assumed was the boss Persian. "You called Sir?"

Giovanni frowned, was he completely surrounded by idiots, he had just called him on the intercom, and the first thing he says his. You called sir. Giovanni carried on stroking his Persian head much to his Pokemon's delight. "Simmons I want an update on project M, is everything proceeding as planned?"

Simmons took a huge gulp. "Well we have managed to extract the DNA from the sample we had. However the cloning process is proving more tricky then first suspected. So far we have cloned several Specimens, but I am sorry to report they are all failures at the minute." Simmons closed his eyes expecting his boss to lay into him, however something else happened instead. The doors behind him locked automatically. Simmons began to get nervous, there was only one reason his boss would do this, and that was when someone had out lived their usefulness.

"Simmons, how long have you worked for me?"

Simmons gulped, and slowly started counting with his fingers. "Three years sir." The silence after his answer was making Simmons more nervous then ever. He then closed his eyes, as he knew what was to come. His boss was going to dispose of him, just like he did with the others who came before him. Simmons began to back up towards the door, however it was no good. Soon as he had banged on the door he heard those two dreaded words.

"Persian Kill!"

Fuchsia City harbour

Ash and the rest of his travelling companions were just boarding the ship that would take them to Cinnabar Island. Ash handed the porter their tickets and then made his way up to the top deck, closely followed by the rest of the group. The whole journey would take them roughly two hours. Ash watched the gang plank get removed and then heard the ships horn, signalling they had set sail. He looked out across the sea and wondered what his next adventure would be.

A/N: Apology for the shortness of the chapter. I promise the next one will be longer.