Disclaimer: I do not own "Pokemon" or its characters. They are property of Kids WB and Nintendo.

Plot: Following the September 11th attacks, former Team Rocket agents Jessie, James and Meowth reflect on the investigation into how a group of stolen fighting type Pokemon were used in the hijackings of four commercial airliners.

Cast:

Tom Cruise as FBI Agent Peter Mitchell

Val Kilmer as FBI Agent Thomas Kazinsky

Rachel Lillis as Jessica "Jessie" Musachi

Eric Stuart as James Kojiro

Ted Lewis as Dr. Giovanni Sakami

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"Pokemon: The September 11th Connection"

Written by Jeff Snyder (GoDistance3562)

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Chapter 1

"September 11th, 2001: Team Rocket's Greatest Triumph"

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"Prepare for trouble.

Make it double.

To protect the world from devastation,

To unite all peoples within our nation.

To denounce the evils of truth and love,

To extend our reach to the stars above.

Team Rocket blasting off at the speed of light,

Surrender now or prepare to fight."

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That was the motto we were taught to use as Team Rocket agents when making a capture of Pokemon. Little did we know that our actions were really being used for a sinister and evil purpose that had nothing to do with making a living by stealing from others. Now, years later, we were paying for our crimes.

We had been found guilty on 3 of 5 counts in the Pokemon Crime Trials and now we have been serving a 20 year prison sentence just because we had no idea that the Pokemon we had been poaching for our former boss, Giovanni, was being used to kill innocent people. In a way, being in prison was the best thing for myself, James and Meowth. Now all we could think of was how did we get into this position?

All those times of attempting to steal that twerp's Pikachu and any other Pokemon and for what? To see Pokemon turned into vicious monsters set to kill innocent people? Well, more than halfway into our sentence, our questions were essentially what if questions. What if we had learned firsthand that our actions and joining Team Rocket was going to result in mass murder of innocent people.

"James," I said looking up at the ceiling of our prison cell.

"Yeah?" my blue haired partner in crime said. "Let me guess, you can't sleep, Jessie?"

"I can't," I replied. "Do you know what day it is today?"

"That day?" asked a tired voice belonging to Meowth who was in a kitty box next to our bed. "That day we later learned we were tricked into being accessories to murder? It makes you think, doesn't it?"

We were sentenced to 20 years to do just that…paying to society our enormous debt for our respective actions that Pokemon were viewed more as killing machines than living creatures.

"Of course, it makes you wonder," I sighed. "We were taught to play dirty and do whatever it took to bring Pokemon to him. My mother was with Team Rocket, but even she had her bounds. I mean…what if she had assassinated Madam Boss? If she did, then there would be no Lockerbie, no 9/11."

"Yeah, it's like you said on the stand, Jessie," sighed James. "That we joined Team Rocket to make a living stealing Pokemon, not killing innocent people. How would we know that Pokemon we managed to steal from that Pokemon Center on Cinnabar Island would end up on those airplanes?"

The memories of those moments remained fresh in our minds. We did try to steal Pokemon from Cinnabar Island, all those fighting type Pokemon. How was I, James or Meowth supposed to know that they would be in the hands of people more evil than Team Rocket? It just didn't make sense to us at all.

In a way, since we were lying in bed, all we could do was think about that dark day over 20 years ago when 3,000 innocent men, women and children were murdered.

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It had all began when the son had risen.

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In the years since his mother's capture and imprisonment for bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, our former boss, Dr. Giovanni Sakami was now running Team Rocket with the same goal in mind…to use Pokemon for attacks against the enemies of Team Rocket, especially the Americans and the Israelis. Ever since the end of the Second World War, one of Team Rocket's top purposes was to finish what the Axis Powers had started. For over 50 years, Team Rocket would try again and again to terrorize American and Israeli alike.

On the night of Tuesday September 11th, 2001, Giovanni sat in his Viridian City headquarters sitting with his board of directors waiting for the news that they hoped to hear. His greatest triumph was on the horizon and all he needed to do was wait for the moment that the attack would begin.

Just then, he heard the phone ring and answered it.

"Mohammed," he said. "Are you in position?"

"Yes," replied Mohammed, speaking from a payphone at Portland International Jetport. "We are all in position."

"Good, the Pokemon that have been provided for you and your teams should help you in your mission. If anyone resists you, the Pokemon will dispose of any resistance. May success be in your favor."

"Thank you, I shall inform the other leaders of your words. May we bring you success today, Giovanni."

Smiling, Giovanni hung up the phone and looked at the board of directors assembled.

"Are they in position?" asked Dr. Namba.

"They are about to fly to Boston as we speak. Gentlemen, this is going to be a glorious day for Team Rocket as we will strike at the heart of the infidel and do what my mother should have done a long time ago."

"With help from Osama, of course," remarked another board member. "We both have the same goals and dreams for our glory, to see our enemies dropped to their knees. The Pokemon we have obtained should aid in carrying out this mission."

Giovanni sat back in his chair and stroked his Persian on the head. All his life, Giovanni had lived in the shadow of his mother, but now with her imprisoned, he now had the green light to do what he did.

"So are we just going to sit here and wait?" asked a board member, causing Giovanni to raise an eyebrow at him.

"Yes, you fool. We sit and wait to watch our ultimate mission be carried out."

For the next three hours, they waited. Waited for the moment to be carried out, waiting for the news to come out that they had struck. At the same time, 19 men checked in at three major US Airports in Boston, Massachusetts; Newark, New Jersey and Washington Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, DC. They all held tickets for four transcontinental flights all departing at the same time, around 8:00am and destined for California. While darkness covered Japan and the rest of Asia, dawn had broken across a cloudless New England sky.

Finally at 8:50pm, the news came in.

"It has been done sir, you may turn on the news," said a voice and Giovanni smiled evilly and turned on the television at the front of the boardtable. There, they saw it, one of the two World Trade Center towers on fire. The news had arrived that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center's north tower.

9:03pm, the board suddenly saw a tiny image of an airplane flying towards the south tower, crashing into it in a burst of flame. Giovanni grew more and more excited that Team Rocket was playing a part in carrying out this attack.

"Yes, yes. The Pokemon have done it."

9:37pm, reports emerged from Washington, DC that there was an explosion at the Pentagon, now all they needed was to wait for the last group to strike its target.

21 minutes later, the south tower collapses in New York much to Giovanni's delight. Team Rocket had done the impossible.

But before Giovanni and his board could celebrate, news arrived at 10:10pm that a plane had gone down in Western Pennsylvania. Everything was going strong to Giovanni and then it stopped. There would be no fourth strike. But at 10:28pm, the north tower collapsed and a plume of smoke billowed from the once standing World Trade Center towers.

"Well, we didn't hit all of our targets, but a success nonetheless," said Giovanni. "The Pokemon that we forced to serve us have done what they needed to do."

Just then, the phone rang and Giovanni answered it again.

"It has been accomplished, my friend," Giovanni said. "It has been accomplished."

The call had come in from Afghanistan and the voice belonged to someone who was like Giovanni, a human creature of evil.

It was September 11th, 2001 and Team Rocket had helped carry out the deadliest terror attack against the United States.

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