Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon. If I did Ash would age and win everything.
On way to Pallet Town
Ash, Sabrina and Brock were on their way back to Pallet Town. Now that Ash had all eight league badges, it was time to register for the league and get some serious training done. Brock had told him that he would come back to Pallet for the day, then head back to Pewter tomorrow. It would just then be him and Sabrina. As the three friends were making their way towards Pallet, Sabrina suddenly held her head. Ash stopped and looked worried. "Is everything okay Sabrina? Sabrina turned and looked at her boyfriend.
"Yes Ash, I just felt a big spike in my psychic energy. It normally happens when I am near another psychic or a Psychic Pokemon, Oh my look over there. It's a Mr Mime." Sabrina pointed into the distance and about 9 feet in the air was a pink and white Pokemon climbing an invisible wall.
Ash ran towards the Pokemon. He didn't have many psychic Pokemon, only his Abra, which seemed to have a habit of teleporting away from professor Oak lab ever so often. A Mr Mime would make a great addition to his every growing family. Ash stood underneath the Mr Mime and placed his hands out in front. He could feel an invisible wall. Ash then looked up. "I can't fight him up there. Better knock him down first. "Pikachu Thunder wave!" Pikachu was about to leap off Ash shoulders, his cheeks were already filled with electricity, however he suddenly stopped as a loud female voice shouted.
"Wait please. I really need that Mr Mime please allow me to catch it." Ash turned to the voice and noticed a tall women, dressed in a red suit, she had long blue hair and blue eyes. Ash noticed one of their party was already making himself known to the woman. Brock was hopeless when it came to the opposite sex.
"You know Ash, maybe we should let this Lady catch that Mr Mime. You all ready have a really strong Psychic Pokemon." Ash eyes widened he had forgotten all about his little Princess. As he was distracted the woman had already ran past him and thrown a Poke ball. Ash shook his head, didn't she know you had to weaken it first. Ash watched the Mr Mime smack the ball away, and then climbed over the top of the invisible ball and ran towards his home town of Pallet. Ash turned as the woman fell to her knees.
"No, No this can't be. I was so close. Now everything is going to be ruined." Ash felt sorry for the woman and helped her up, much to Brock's annoyance. Who was just looking at Ash and the woman comically.
"Excuse, but why did you need to catch the Mr Mime so bad? Did you need it for something important?" Since his run in with Team Rocket, Ash had been wary of everyone. Especially with the incident at the Power plant. Had Zapdos not told him that the guys dressed up as Power station workers were Team Rocket agents, then Ash wouldn't have known the difference. It was then Ash realised anyone could be Team Rocket Agent, he knew Mr Mime were rare Pokemon too. So was it possible this woman was a Team Rocket agent?
"Forgive me, I should have introduced myself. My name is Stella. You see I needed that Mr Mime, because the one I have isn't behaving the way it should. I'm The ring mistress for the Pokemon Circus and Mr Mime was one of our acts. However the one we have is refusing to perform. Our show opens tonight and he is one of our main attractions."
Ash noticed Sabrina came and stood by him, she then whispered in his ear. "It's okay Ash, she is telling the truth. Maybe we should help her, after all, with your gift you could find out why this Mr Mime doesn't want to perform." Ash decided he like Sabrina idea, plus he really wanted to talk to the other Pokemon in the circus to find out their feeling on performing in front of people. Ash turned to the Stella.
"Stella, why don't we go to the circus with you. You see I have an unusual gift that allows me to talk with Pokemon. Maybe I can find out what exactly is wrong with your Mr Mime." Ash suddenly found himself in a huge hug by Stella. He trailed his eyes over to see Brock just standing there, mouth open wide looking dumb as ever.
Pokemon Circus
Ash, and his friends looked around the circus. They could see all sorts of Pokemon performing, and trying out new acts. There were a group of Machoke lifting huge weights, a couple of Seels balancing balls on their nose. There were even a few Aipom swinging around the circus. Ash noticed Stella was leading them towards a caravan. When three girls in Pokemon Circus t-shirts ran up to her. Ash face palmed as Brock had that goofy look on his face once more.
"Stella did you find another Mr Mime to perform? Stella turned to her friends and shook her head. She noticed all their heads drop. "Now what are we going to do? Our Mr Mime won't perform any more."
Ash was beginning to feel sorry for Stella and her workers. He had thought all these Pokemon would be in cages like other circus animals are kept, but these Pokemon were not trapped in cages and were doing their own thing, really enjoying themselves. "Stella can you take me to this Mr Mime. I can then find out what is wrong."
A few minutes later they arrived at a caravan with a huge side window. All over the caravan were pictures of Mr Mime posing. When Ash looked inside the caravan, he couldn't believe his eyes. There lounging on a sofa, eating and watching television was a Mr Mime. Ash turned to Stella with a sweat drop look. "Well he looks comfy. When exactly did he stop listening to you?"
Stella lowered her head. She already knew the reason why Mr Mime had stopped listening to her, it was because she had wanted his act to be perfect and she had trained him over and over again. Eventually Mr Mime had just quit. However she couldn't just tell Ash and his friends that, they would thing she was cruel trainers and refuse to help her anymore. This would mean the show would have to be cancelled and all the tickets already sold refunded. The Circus was barely breaking even at the minute, so all those refund would see it in the red very soon. However she didn't have time to say anything as already Ash had entered the Caravan.
Ash walked into the caravan and noticed the Mr Mime seemed to stop what it was doing. Ash then noticed it moved its hands up and down, and right in front of him appeared an invisible barrier. Ash of course had gone smack right into it and was now on his butt shaking his head. "You know that wasn't very nice. I just came in to have chat with you, and see if I can help."
The Mr Mime tilted its head to the side, with a look of surprise on its face. "You can understand me human?"
Ash noticed the barrier was still up between them, and then just nodded. "Yes I can understand you. A very special friend of mine gave me the gift to talk to Pokemon. I came here to ask why did you quit the circus? Now don't get any ideas, I am not on Stella side, I am just trying to be neutral, she has told me her side now I want to hear your side."
Mr Mime stayed silent for a while before dropping the barrier between him and the trainer. He then levitated everything off the other sofa and allowed Ash to sit down. "I quit, because I was fed up with her training methods. It none stop training over and over. The whips the worse, the way she cracks it, if I do something wrong it really scares me."
Ash narrowed his eyes, it seem Stella had left out that bit about her training methods. No wonder Mr Mime didn't want to perform, heck if Ash was Mr Mime then he would have done the same thing. "I take it Stella has never hit you with the whip?"
Mr Mime eyes widened. He waved his hands out in front of him in a worrying manner. "No, no Stella not like that, she just uses it in her training, she has never hurt any single one of us. In fact we all care about her very much, but as I can't tell her what the problem is, I decided the best thing was to quit"
Ash sighed in relieve, he was worried that Stella actually used the whip for punishment, but it seems that wasn't the case. "Well what if tell Stella to stop using the whip, will you then perform?"
Mr Mime thought about the question before nodding its head slowly. "You get Stella to stop using her whip and I will perform in the circus for her."
Ash got off the sofa and then left the caravan. He noticed everyone was waiting for him. He walked up to the group and looked at Stella. "Well I found out the problem, he doesn't like your training methods and piece of equipment you use scares him. That is why he quit. He couldn't tell you the reason so decided the best thing to do was quit. However he said, if you stopped using your whip then he would perform for you."
Stella looked down, so that was the reason Mr Mime had stopped listening, it was because of the whip she used for training. "I didn't know it was scaring him, had I known then I certainly would never had used it. I promise from this day forward there will be no whip."
Team Rocket Out post
Jessie, James and Meowth bowed in front of a huge screen. Just then the screen switched on showing the face of Giovanni their boss. He did not look to happy. "Fives years of work down the drain, you knew how important that gym was to this organisation. I asked you to do one simple thing, guard the gym, and what happens, you end demolishing it with explosives. You're just lucky that I have other pressing matter to deal with then you three. Now get out of here, and I don't want to see you back until you have at least one rare Pokemon!"
Jessie, James and Meowth saluted and then left the out post. They quickly climbed into their balloon and took off towards the sky. They had no idea what they were going to do. "Well you heard the boss, we can't return until we give him a rare Pokemon. So lets find one."
Meowth growled. "Oh yeah Jessie, like a rare Pokemon is just going to appear in front of us." Just then Meowth was prevented from talking as flyer smacked him in the face. Jessie pulled off the flyer and then looked at it. She saw the picture of Mr Mime and cruel grin appeared on her face.
"You know Meowth, you should open your mouth more often. There is a Pokemon Circus near Pallet Town and its start attraction is a Mr Mime. I am sure that will be a rare enough Pokemon for the boss.
Pokemon Circus
Ash Sabrina and Brock sat in the stands while Stella trained Mr Mime. Now that she wasn't using the whip and had promised to ease up on the training, Mr Mime had agreed to perform once more. At the minute it was levitating different objects. It then began to juggle them with its psychic energy. Due to their help Ash had been given five VIP tickets for the show tonight, and so before they had sat down to watch everyone practice, he had contacted his mum and she and Professor Oak was going to come tonight to see the show.
"That's it Mr Mime, just like that. You're doing so well." Ash was pleased to see Stella being more positive with her training methods and it seemed to be working as Mr Mime was loving every minute of it. However just then one of the staff ran into the tent in a panic.
"Stella quickly, some huge tank is running around the Circus and swallowing the Pokemon. We have tried to stop it, but nothing seemed to be working." Ash sensed trouble and raced outside after Stella followed by Sabrina and Brock. They spotted the huge tank and it was ruining everything in its path. However what made Ash more angry was the huge red R on the front of it. These guys just never gave up. Just then the tank stopped in front of them. Ash watched the hatch open and there out popped Jessie, James and Meowth. Ash growled.
"You three again, just what the hell are you up to this time?" Ash noticed the three members of Team Rocket were just about to do their entrance song, however they had stopped as Ash had interrupted them.
"How rude. At least wait until we have done our introduction twerp. Now where were we. Are yes."However Ash wasn't going to give them any time to finish it. He already had a Poke ball in his hand.
"Heard it before. Its getting really old. Now release all those Pokemon you have stolen, if not then I know a certain little friend of mine who would love to beat you three clowns again. Ash opened the ball and out came Scizor. It saw the three Team Rocket goons and grinned. It loved beating the hell out of these three.
"Wrong move kid. You see we have learnt from our previous mistakes. Meowth push the button!" Meowth then pushed the button, suddenly Scizor found itself being pulled towards the tank a long with every other piece of metal around it. It slammed into the tank, unable to free itself. It heard the three goons laugh. They were seriously going to pay for this when he was free. "See Kid, your Scizor is now ours. So why don't you give up and hand over the rest of your Pokemon."
Ash growled. He quickly recalled Scizor, luckily the Poke ball was not effected by the magnet. Ash was thinking what he could do, suddenly he saw Stella running away with Mr Mime. He noticed Team Rocket quickly jumped back into their tank and then took off after them. So it was the Mr Mime they were after. Ash removed another ball from his belt. "Gengar use Psychic on that tank now!"
Gengar appeared out of its ball. It's eyes glowed blue before the attack levitated in the air. Gengar then used his power to twist the tank upside down and smashed it on the floor. It then floated back to Ash who was already running towards the smoking tank followed by both Sabrina and Brock.
Ash noticed the Tank was about to explode. He had forgotten all the other Pokemon in the tank, quickly he called out Scizor once more. "Scizor break open the tank with Metal claw!" Scizor smashed its claw into the side of the tank then used it's steel pincers to rip the metal creating a huge hole, where dazed Pokemon were climbing out. It was then Scizor noticed the three team Rocket members were sliding out of the tank looking rather beaten up. Scizor smirked pay back time. Once all the Pokemon were free Ash used Gengar to send the tank flying causing a huge explosion up in the sky. Ash then locked eyes with Team Rocket who were just about on their feet. Well they wouldn't be staying on those for long. "Scizor, pay back time. Hyper beam!" Scizor smirked he had been waiting for this. He walked towards Team Rocket, an orange orb growing in one of his pincers. He then brought them together before a concentrated blast of orange energy hit all three Team Rocket members sending them flying into the air. "That will teach you three for using a magnet on me!"
Ash recalled Scizor and then turned to the rest of the group. He saw Stella with Mr Mime, and her other colleagues making sure all the Pokemon were okay. Team Rocket had left a huge mess and it took nearly all after noon to clear it up. Finally though it was time for the show. The night was huge success, Mr Mime act was the highlight of evening. Once the circus had finished. Ash and his group said good bye to Stella and the circus. They then headed back to Pallet. However unknown to Ash his next big adventure was about to happen sooner than he thought.
Team Rocket Secret Lab
"CRASH!" Mewtwo smashed through the roof of the building, the metal armour it now wore slowly started to snap off until finally only Mewtwo was left. Mewtwo had grown tired of being used and had decided to escape. He had used his Power to blow up all the generators and equipment around him. He then smashed his way through the facility and now was high above the world flying towards a new destination.
Giovanni coughed as the smoke grew around him. His weapon had escaped. His plans for world domination were ruined. Mewtwo had to be captured at all costs. The world was not ready for its sort of Power. There was no telling what Mewtwo would do without anyone controlling it.
Hall Of Origins
Arceus God Pokemon and creator of the universe watched the escape through his all seeing globe. The time had finally come for his Chosen to face his first real test. "The time is now Chosen one, show all in my ranks why I chose you."
A/N: There you go little filler before we hit the first Movie Chapter. Now that will be about a week as I have to watch the movie first to remind me of the details. However don't expect everything to be canon. Just like this chapter i will add my only little twists here and there.