Surprisingly, Krane's question was answered.
"What you do now is - Prepare for trouble!" said a female voice.
Ash, Misty, and Tracey groaned.
"And you also might want to - make it double!" a shadowy male voice added.
Wes, Rui, and Krane looked at the three children, who seemed to know what was going on. Ash sweatdropped and shrugged as two people jumped from the shrubbery.
"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!"
The red-haired woman posed expansively, arms flared. "JESSIE!"
The lavender-haired man gazed slyly at them over a rose. "And it's James!"
Jessie stood proudly, arms akimbo. "Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light!"
Wes's brows contracted, and Rui's eyes widened.
James mirrored Jessie's pose. "Surrender now, or prepare to fight!"
A cream-colored Pokemon jumped from the shrubs. "Meowth! That's right!"
Ash, Misty, and Tracey cried, "Team Rocket!"
Wes snorted. "This is Team Rocket?"
Krane tilted his head. "How odd..."
Outraged, Jessie shouted at Wes, "Hey, Stripeface, who are you to question us?!"
The Meowth grinned maniacally and pointed at them all. "Better you should ask what you're gonna do when we take all your Pokemon!"
"But you're a Pokemon yourself," Rui said. "Why would you help kidnap others of your kind?"
Wes looked sharply at her. "You mean he's not..."
Rui, frowning, held up her hand in a "wait" gesture as Meowth answered her.
"Because my first loyalty is to Team Rocket!" Meowth said defiantly. "Now get ready to feel my Fury 'Swipes' as we swipe all dese Pokemon!"
"You're not swiping anything!" Ash yelled. "Pikachu! Thunderbolt!"
Pikachu leaped from Ash's shoulder, but James threw something that wound around its small yellow body in a spiral. Pikachu's Thunderbolt made it crackle with yellow power, and Pikachu screamed. At once Jessie held up a metal rod, and Pikachu flew forward and stuck to it like he was glued there.
"Pikachu!" Ash cried,
Meowth threw back his head and laughed. "It's our magnetic personalities that attracts Pokemon like Pikachu so well!"
"Pikachu!" Ash cried.
"Rui!" Wes muttered tightly, looking at her.
Rui shook her head, not in negation, but in confusion. "I...I'm not sure."
Tracey said, "Team Rocket's using Pikachu's electricity to turn that metal spiral into an electromagnet!"
"Yes!" Jessie crowed. "And now we're going to attract all your other Pokemon, too!"
Ash snarled at Team Rocket. "Charizard! Let's get Pikachu back!"
Charizard roared and stepped forward.
At once, Team Rocket looked somewhat less confident.
"Jessie, I thought the Twerp's Charizard never cooperated," James said.
"That's all changed now, you losers!" Misty yelled. Togepi brii'ed its agreement, or perhaps merely announced it had wet its shell.
"Charizard! Use your wings to blow Team Rocket down!" Ash cried.
Charizard flapped up a violent wind.
Immediately Team Rocket hit the ground, digging their hands (and claws) into the earth. Jessie and James somehow also managed to end up with one arm around each other.
"Looks like our plan will soon be gone with the wind!" James wailed.
"And it should have been such a breeze!" Jessie said.
"Maybe that's because our plan usually blows!" Meowth cried.
Krane scratched his head. "Does anyone else find it strange that the Meowth is talking?"
"No," chorused the twerps.
"You get used to it," Tracey added.
Wes said, "Rui!"
Rui frowned. "There's...something like a shadow on it, but...."
Wes paused, and as Charizard's wing flaps sped up, he threw something that struck Meowth on the charm.
"Hey!" Meowth said. "No need to--" and he was cut off, as bright white light enveloped him; five streams of light spread and closed in on him like a great hand and sucked him into the red and white Pokeball.
Jessie and James gasped.
"Meowth!" James shouted.
"WAAAHH!" Ash cried, and Misty, Tracey and Krane reacted with shock as well. Pikachu stopped struggling in his metal wrap (now on the ground beside Jessie) and stared.
Even Charizard stopped flapping with a surprised sound.
"Wes!" Rui cried.
Wes calmly lifted his hand and caught the Pokeball as it bounced back toward him. Everyone was silent as it beeped once...twice...and...
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