A series of strong and severe thunderstorms had passed over Jessie's cabin that day. Jessie and Butch had talked, told stories about their adventures on their journeys, and played many card and board games.

Butch drew a card from the deck, then set it in the discard pile. He moved his green pawn up five spaces and landed on an arrow, so he slid the pawn up to the circle. "Ooops... sorry," he apologized, mocking the name of the game.

"Butch! That was my only piece out!" she said as she put her red pawn back in the start circle. "Couldn't you have moved a different piece?" she asked angrily, leaning in towards Butch. She got right in his face. Butch tried to match her same angry face expression, only without luck. He leaned in and looked her in the eyes, then quickly kissed her.

Jessie shot back and wiped her mouth with her arm. She drew a card, "A stupid three... I can't go... your turn..." she growled.

"Sorry, Jessie. Two of my pieces are at 'home' and the other is in the safety zone. That was my only choice," Butch said as he drew another card.

"One more thing, Butch," she added.

"Yes?" he looked up from the board.

"Stop kissing me..."

Butch chuckled, "Jessie, you'll appreciate me when the first guy you fall head over heels in love with dumps you."

"Whatever," she said as she pulled her knees into a tuck and drew another card. She rolled her eyes at her bad luck.

Butch drew a card. "Make that three in 'home'," he laughed.

"Butch, you've won like, every game we've played today. You've got to be cheating," she looked at Butch.

"I'm not cheating, Jessie. I promise you. I'm just on a winning streak, I guess. Your turn," he looked back at her. Jessie drew a card and sighed.

"Go, Butch."

Butch drew a card and cheered, "Well, there's my eleven! I win!"

Jessie flicked one of her pieces across the board. "Yay, again..." she sarcastically added. Butch gathered up the gameboard, cards, and pieces, and put them in the box. Jessie put the game on the shelf with the other games.

"Okay, well, we've played every game possible in this cabin. What do you want to do now?" Jessie asked Butch.

Butch yawned and looked at his watch. "I don't know. I"m kind of tired," he answered.

"What time is it?" Jessie asked as she sat on the couch with him.

"9:14," he yawned again. "I think I'll go to bed."

"Okay, that sounds good to me," she stood up, stretched, and walked slowly to the bedroom. Butch stood up and followed her.

When they got into the bedroom, Butch grabbed an old pair of sweatpants and an old t-shirt. He walked over to the dresser and looked into the mirror. He brushed his bangs out of his eyes, then took his jacket and shirt off.

Jessie was sitting on the bed. When she looked over at him and saw him with no shirt on, she couldn't stop staring. She didn't want to look, so she didn't understand why she couldn't look away.

Butch put the old shirt on, then took off his pants and put the ond sweatpants on.

Jessie snapped out of her gazing at Butch, then shuddered. She grabbed her night dress and walked into the bathroom. "What was I doing?" she wondered, while she began to change.

When she walked back into the bedroom, Butch was sitting on the foot of the bed.

"I thought I said you have to sleep on the floor," she said as she sat on the bed and wrapped herself in the blankets.

"I am," he replied, pointing to a sleeping bag on the floor beside the bed. "I was just waiting for you." He walked over to the light switch and flicked it off. Then, walked to his sleeping bag and lied down.

"Goodnight, Butch," Jessie said.

Butch smiled. "Sweet dreams, Jessica." They both drifted off to sleep by the calming pitter patter of the rain.

Cassidy had fallen asleep on James' shoulder, only because the box shook them around so much. James didn't care. All he wanted was to stay alive. He was sweating heavily and had to take very small, short breaths. His heart was beating faster than ever before and he had the worst headache ever. A tear ran down his sweaty cheek when he realized the horrible, horrible truth.

"I can't believe that it's over..." he thought to himself, allowing more tears to flow down his cheeks. "But, I can't allow it! I have to keep my promise to Jessie! I have to return to her!" he said outloud. Then, he quickly grasped his chest. Talking hurt him because he could barely breathe. But, breathing or no breathing, he had to get Cassidy and himself out of there. He reached for his pokeballs, but felt himself getting weaker every second. He couldn't make it any further. He looked up, let the rest of his tears out, and begged for something..... anything to help him. And that was it. He closed his eyes. His head and body fell to the side.

Cassidy felt his shoulder pull out from under her head. "James?" she asked. Then, when she waw him, she burst out in tears. "James! No! No no! Wake up!" she shook him and cried harder. She put two of her fingers on the part of his neck to feel for his pulse and pressed on it. "Okay... his heart is still beating. He still has a little time," she calmed down. Then she got an idea. She felt around his waist for his pokeballs. "I don't know what Wheezing and Victreebell would do to get us out of here, but, I'll try anything to get out of here," she continued feeling for his pokeballs. "Ha! There they are!" she pulled out five pokeballs. "Huh? Why does he have five? Oh well, the more the better, I guess." She set them all in front of her. "Okay, I'll try this one. Pokeball, go!" she threw the pokeball against the wall. Likitung popped out.

"Liki..."

Cassidy gasped. "Likitung! You're perfect!" she hugged the pink pokemon. Likitung looked around and wondered why the guy with the blue hair hadn't called it out. Its master had told it to listen to only him while he was on his trip. Likitung sighed in confusion. "Likitung, try tackling the wall!" Cassidy ordered. Likitung looked at her with a 'no one told me to listen to you' look. "Oh... okay I get it. Likitung, look. James is dieing. If you don't listen to me, we won't have time to save him," Cassidy explained. Likitung looked at James and saw him, just lying there without breathing. It looked back at Cassidy and nodded. "Good. Now, tackle to the wall!" she pointed to the wall. Likitung charged at the wall. "Keep going until you make a hole! You're doing great!" she cheered.

Likitung kept tackling the steel wall, until finally, it banged a very large hole into the wall.

"Great job, Likitung! Return!" she called back Likitung, put every pokeball away, and grabbed James. She pulled him out through the hole and looked around. "Okay, no one's around... and I know this area! There should be a Pokemon Center not too far from here. Don't give up, James. I'll get you there," she said, wrapping the ropes that had been tied around her, around James. She forced James to wake up and try to walk. He did walk, but very slowly. She helped him by pulling him along with the ropes. They slowly made their way towards the Pokemon Center.

In the middle of the night, Jessie woke up to a continuing roaring noise. It wouldn't stop, and it started to get her kind of scared.

"Butch," she whispered. "Wake up!" she kicked him.

"What?!" he whispered.

"Are you awake?"

"Well, I am now... what's wrong?" he sat up.

"Listen... that noise..." she said with a scared tone of voice.

"It's just a train..." he said as he lied back down.

"There are no train-tracks around here anywhere. Not even close to here! Butch, can you see what it is?" she pleaded.

"Yeah, I'll go..." he got up and walked out of the room. Jessie wrapped the blankets tightly around her.

Butch walked out the back door and outside. He searched around the cabin and went only a short distance into the forest, but found nothing. He walked back when he heard a loud crash of thunder and the wind began picking up speed. Just as he was about to reach the cabin, a flash of lightning lit up the sky and revealed what was making the noise. He ran as fast as he could into the cabin and into the bedroom.

"What's wrong, Butch? What is it?"

Butch grabbed Jessie and pulled her off the bed. "Just come with me, and fast! It's a tornado!" He carried her into the bathroom. They sat in the small space in the bathtub. Butch closed the plastic slide-door to the tub and sat down.

"Butch... I don't wanna die!" she started crying.

"It's okay, Jessie. It'll be okay," he pulled her close. She tried to relax, but couldn't. Butch held her tighter as the tornado got closer and louder.

"Butch!!!" Jessie screamed. He rubbed her back and tried comforting her. She squeezed him tight, making him wheeze.

The tornado was just about there. The deafening roaring sent chills all throughout their bodies. Jessie hid her face in Butch's chest and continued holding onto him. Butch felt ready to take on anything. He'd do anything to protect Jessie. They heard glass break. One of the windows in the cabin had broken. Butch held Jessie tighter.

"Is it here?" she asked quietly. He rubbed her head and gently kissed her forehead.

"It's okay... everything is going to be okay," he held her head with one hand, and her back with the other. They heard something crack open. Jessie jumped. "That was just a tree, Jessie. It's okay," he pulled her whole body closer. She could feel Butch's heart beating, fast. She also felt him sweating. Oh well, she was no different. She was sweating and her heart was beating uncontrolably fast. Suddenly, the room shook.

"Oh my god!" Jessie screamed. Debris banged loudly against the plastic door. One large piece broke throught the door and shot into the wall, just missing Butch's head. Butch pushed Jessie further into the corner and continued holding her, blocking anything from hitting her. Bits of glass and plastic scratched Butch's back and neck, sometimes cutting deep into his skin.

"Everything will be fine, Jessie. Just stay right there," he said through clenched teeth. A small piece of glass zipped past and cut Jessie's cheek. She gasped and set her hand lightly on her cheek.

"Are you okay, Jessie?" Butch was concerned. She looked into his caring eyes and nodded slowly. He smiled weakly, "Just stay calm. I think it's just gonna pass by the cabin." Jessie hugged him. "It's almost past," he finished. He sat back and moaned. "Aaaowww.... my back..."

"A...are you going to be okay?" she kept her arms around him.

"I'm okay, don't worry," he rubbed her shoulders. "Everything will be okay as long as you're okay," he finished.

They listened for the tornado for about a half hour, when it was finally gone. The tornado was followed by a light rain shower. When everything was passed, Jessie calmed down completely. She was so tense, that when she did finally calm down, she collapsed onto Butch's chest and cried.

"It's okay now! It's all over," he gently rubbed her back. She held onto him, tight. "Just relax."

After a short while, they both fell asleep, tightly holding onto each other.

Cassidy and James had been working their way slowly to the Pokemon Center. James had collapsed alot, and had just collapsed again. Cassidy pulled him to his feet. "James, we're almost there! You've got to keep going!" Cassidy pulled him along.

James wheezed. "You've said that for the last two hours..." he held his stomach and huffed and puffed. He was soaked from sweating so hard.

"No, look!" she pointed, "It's right over there. Just a few more minutes."

James continued wheezing. He felt himself getting weaker and weaker. He felt just about ready to give up and just collapse for the final time. Then he thought of Jessie. He got a little more of his strength back. "I'll do it for Jessie!" he thought as he stood up a little straighter and walked a very tiny bit faster.

Ten minutes later, they walked through the door of the Pokemon Center. A sleepy Nurse Joy welcomed them at the front room.

"Can I help you?"

"We need help right now! He's about to die!" Cassidy grabbed Nurse Joy by the collar. "Do something!" she yelled in Joy's face.

"Well... I, umm..." Joy sweatdropped. Suddenly, James collapsed onto the floor. "I don't usually work on people, but I'll see what I can do," Joy motioned for Cassidy to help her move James into a surgery room. "You can sleep in the main room. I'll work on your boyfriend as best as I can. There aren't many pokemon here, so I have the time," Joy said as she began taking off James' gloves, jacket and shirt.

"He's not my boyfriend. Just a teammate." Cassidy walked back into the main room. She looked up at a clock. "Wow... it's 3:30.." she yawned and sat down in a soft chair. "I guess I'll just rest for a little while..." she closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep.

Joy had taken off all of James' clothing except for his boxers. She had given him a shot that would try to flush out any foreign or poisonous substances out of his blood. She washed his sweaty body and layed him on a bed. Then, she went to a phone and called the hospital, which was almost ten miles away. She called to ask for his type of blood.

"Can you have it delivered here? In the next half hour? I have a patient who's dying! He doesn't have much more time. Actually, he should already be dead," Joy said in a scared, rushed voice.

"We'll have it shipped there as fast as we can. Okay... someone's heading out with it right now," a male's voice said calmly.

"Thank you! Thank you so much!" she hung up. She looked at James and sighed. "Not much hope for you, young man. Just hang in there." she pleaded and continued hooking things to his body.

A ray of light made its way to Jessie's sleeping eyes. She blinked, opened her eyes, and yawned. Butch also woke up, to feeling Jessie stretching. He rubbed her back and smiled at her. Jessie looked up at him.

"Good morning, Jessie..." he stretched. Jessie stretched out her back and shoulders.

"Good morning," she said warmly. Then she laughed, "Thanks to you, I'm still able to say that."

Butch hugged her and pulled her close. "I'll do anything to keep you safe. How's your cheek?" Butch gently rubbed over the scratch on her cheek.

"It's fine, Butch. It's only a little scratch. What about you, though? You've got them all over your back..." she stook up, got out of the tub, and got to the medicine cabinet. Butch got out, too. Jessie took out a rub on medicine that would clean out all of the cuts. "Umm.... I guess you'll have to... take off your shirt..." she blushed.

"Oh. Okay," Butch pulled of his shirt without hesitation.

Jessie's eyes got huge when all of the deep cuts and sratches were revealed. "Oh my gosh... Butch? Doesn't that hurt?"

"Of course it does. But, it'll be okay."

Jessie began rubbing medicine over every cut she saw. Butch flinched at the buning it made, but stayed calm. After she finished that and put everything away, they just looked at the bathroom.

"Oh, wow, the window..." Jessie gasped.

"It's not very bad damage. Come on, let's go get dressed and help with the clean-up at headquarters," Butch took her by the hand and led her to the bedroom.

"Jeeze... the windows in here are broken, too," Jessie looked at the scattered pieces of glass all over the floor.

"Be glad we took showers yesterday, because I doubt any power is working," Butch grabbed some clothes and headed back into the bathroom. He changed into a somewhat oversized, dark blue t-shirt, and somewhat baggy khaki pants. Jessie changed into a pair of black bellbottoms and a somewhat tight, bright blue t-shirt. She brushed her hair and waited for Butch to come back.

Butch came in and sat on the bed. "Ohh... I'm so tired... we must've only slept about one hour after the tornado..." Butch rubbed his head.

"What time is it?" Jessie sat on the bed next to Butch.

He looked at his watch, "6:15," he answered. "Are you hungry, Jessie?" he stood up and stretched.

"Not really," she stood up. "I'm still trying to recover from last night. I can't even tell you in words how thankful I am for what you did last night," she blushed slightly.

Butch hugged her tight. "Then... don't use words..." He slowly pressed his lips to hers. Her eyes fluttered in shock and she started backing up her head.

"Well, okay... if this is what he wants... I guess this can be my thank you," she thought, as she decided to accept the kiss.

Butch was surprised at that. "Wow... this is great!" he thought. He kissed her a little deeper, then let her go. Jessie looked at him and blushed deeper. She turned and quickly walked out of the room. Butch chuckled and followed her.

Jessie sat down on the couch. Butch sat down next to her.

"What's wrong, Jessie?" Butch rubbed her arm. Jessie looked up at him and blushed even deeper. "What's the matter?"

"I... I... ummm... nothing. Nothing at all..." Jessie stood up and walked to the kitchen and poured herself and drink.

Butch followed. "Jessie... are you sure you're okay?" Butch sat down at the table.

"I'm sure..." she sat down across from him and sipped her water.

"Well, if you ever need to say anything... I'm right here. You can say anything to me at anytime," he took her hands and gently held them.

"Okay..." Jessie hesitantly replied. Butch stood up and walked back into the bedroom. Jessie stayed at the table and continued sipping her water. "What is wrong with me? I... I feel so... so, strange. What do I do? I hate him! Why am I feeling like this..." she asked herself.

Butch walked back into the kitchen. "Come on, Jessie. I bet that tornado destroyed something at headquarters," he took her hand and helped her up. When she stood up, he put his arm behind her, but she walked ahead of him. Jessie walked out the door and gasped at all of the fallen trees. Butch chuckled, "I told you it was a tree."

"Uh huh..." Jessie walked off ahead of him.

"Hey! Jessie, wait up!" Butch quickly walked after Jessie.

When they reached Team Rocket Headquarters, they saw that a bunch of other Rockets were already there to help.

"You two here to help?" a female Rocket walked by them.

"Yes..." Jessie replied.

"Well, there wasn't much that needed to be done. So, we're finished now," she stood there and sighed.

"Okay..." Butch sighed. Giovanni walked around the building right behind Jessie. She turned arouund and jumped.

"Umm... hello, sir," she straightened up.

"Hello, Jessie. I see you've survived the tornado. Two of our members were caught in it. One is dead, the other is in the emergency room with deep wounds and many bone fractures," Giovanni told her.

Jessie was in shock. "Was it really that bad?"

"Well, when it reached this part of the forest, it was at its weakening point," he said. Then he looked at Butch. "Butch..."

Butch straightened up. "Yes sir?"

"I'm afraid I have some news for you. It was horrible news for me to hear. Very horrible. About your partner, Cassidy..." Butch got a worried look on his face.

"What happened?" he asked weakly.

"Well, one of the girls who went on the same mission as Cassidy, has returned early. She told me that a few people had cornered them, then captured some of them. Three were shot, two were poisoned, and the four remaining were kidnapped. Cassidy was one who was kidnapped," Giovanni said, getting angrier for even talking about it.

Butch was terrified. "Is Cassidy okay?"

"She doesn't know what happened to them. All she knows is, they took everyone's pokeballs, even the pokeballs of the people they killed. Then, they each split up and took one each of the girls who remained alive," he explained.

"How come nothing happened to this girl?" Butch asked.

"She said she was hiding the whole time," Giovanni sighed. "Well, anyway, I should be going. Good-bye Butch, Jessie," he walked off.

"Good-bye?" Jessie questioned. "The Boss said, good-bye?"

"Yes, Jessie... he said good-bye," Butch said with an annoyed tone of voice. Jessie looked at Butch with a shocking expression. Why had he talked back to her like that?

"Butch?"

Butch looked at her.

"Don't talk to me like that!!!" she yelled at him. Butch smiled at her. Jessie sighed. "What do we do now, Butch?"

"Let's just go for a walk," he quietly replied. They quietly walked off into the forest.

Mondo was the first to wake up. He yawned and stretched, then rolled up his sleeping bag and packed up his backpack.

Kazuyuki woke up to the soft noise Mondo was making. "You're up early, Mondo," Kazuyuki yawned, rubbing his eyes.

"I wanna get out and find James as soon as possible," Mondo replied, still packing his backpack.

"You're not going without us, are you?" Kazuyuki started rolling up his sleeping bag.

"Of course not," Mondo sat down.

"Who said what about leaving me here?" Clint woke up. He slowly sat up, then yawned a long yawn.

"No one's leaving you here," Kazuyuki answered.

"Oh yeah! We gotta get going!" Clint remembered. He jumped up, grabbed his sleeping bag, stuffed it in his backpack, and grabbed for his hat, boots, and gloves. "Where's my hat?" he looked around the tent.

Kazuyuki started laughing, "You're standing on it."

Clint rolled his eyes, held the hat between his two feet, jumped up, and threw it up with his feet. He caught it, and placed it on his head, with a look of satisfaction. "Ready," he turned to Kazuyuki and Mondo. They sweatdropped. All three exited the tent and packed it up. Then, started on their way.

"The Boss lies... This mountain ain't got bad blizzards..." Clint looked around at the snow that had fallen over night.

"He said they're near the top. We're no where near the top, Clint," Mondo said. "Oh, yeah..." Clint remembered.

"So... how do we start on their trail?" Kazuyuki stopped.

"I know how," Mondo pulled out a pokeball. "Ditto! Go!" He threw the pokeball and Ditto popped out. "Ditto, transform into an arbok!" he called out.

The little pink pokemon took on the form of the large purple snake pokemon, arbok.

"Charbok!" it called out.

"Ditto, find James' scent and follow it!"

It nodded and searched along the ground.

Ditto took them back into the cave they had been in the previous day.

"Look, there's where we were when that Chelsea girl came," Clint pointed.

"Keep going, Ditto! You're doing great!" Mondo cheered to his pokemon.

Butch and Cassidy had been ordered by the Boss to make an attack on Chelsea and her group, the Rocket Slayers. When they finally did come upon Chelsea, she wasn't prepared at all to see them. They busted through the window and landed on the table in front of her.

"Hello, Chelsea, and prepare for trouble!" Cassidy crossed her arms.

"I think you'd better make that double," Butch put his back to hers.

"To infect the world with devistation!"

"To blight all peoples in every nation."

"To denounce the goodness of truth and love."

"To extend our wrath to the stars above..."

"Cassidy."

"Butch."

"Team Rocket circling earth all day and night."

"Surrender to us now or you'll surely lose the fight!"

Chelsea gave them a dirty look. "I think not. I never lose," she said with a snobbish tone of voice as she pulled out a gun.

"Don't you pull a gun on us! We're not scared of you, you coward!" Butch yelled.

"Oh, you're not, are you...?" she aimed at Butch. He froze. Chelsea pulled the trigger. Cassidy dove in front of Butch, then fell hard on the floor. She opened her eyes.

"Wha...?" she yawned as she looked around the main room of the Pokemon Center. She wrapped the blanket that had fallen on the floor with her, around herself and sat back on the chair she had been sleeping on. People stared and her because of falling off the chair. One kid even burst out in laughter. She blushed in embarresment and sighed. Okay, people were starting to move on with their lives and stop staring. She looked at the clock on the wall. "Hmm... 9:50... I slept too long..." she sat back in the chair and crossed her legs. Then wrapped the blanket tighter. "It's so cold in here..." she thought. "I wonder what happened with James..."

James slowly opened his eyes. "Wh... where... where am I?" he looked around his bed and saw all of the wires and tubes attached to him. "What happened?" his eyes fluttered. Nurse Joy walked in the room. She smiled and ran over to James when she saw that he had woken up.

"You're awake! How do you feel?" she lowered his blanket to his waist and removed a few tubes.

"I ... I feel, fine," he now remembered what had happened. "Where's Cassidy?" he looked around the room.

"Is that the girl who brought you here last night?" Joy asked. James nodded. "She fell asleep in the main room. She's sitting out there now." James sighed. "You're going to be fine, young man. I removed most of the poison out of your body. You just need to rest today." James shrugged his shoulders and relaxed his head on the pillow. "And another thing... I don't think you should eat much today," she pulled the blanket back up over his shoulders and rubbed over his chest gently. She then turned around and walked out of the room.

"Excuse me, miss?" Joy walked up to Cassidy, who was busily playing the card game, clock.

She looked up from her game at Joy. "Yes?"

"Your friend is going to be fine. He just needs not to eat much, and lots of rest."

Cassidy sighed in relief, "He's okay? Great, but... I don't think he'll be able to rest. We have to get back to headquarters and we have to get there now!"

"Where is your, um, headquarters?" Joy asked.

"You don't want to know. It's too far," Cassidy replied, gathering up the cards.

"Oh... you know you're on Mandarin Island... right...?" Joy sweatdropped.

"Yeah, I know," Cassidy stood up. "It's okay... I have an idea," she started laughing.

Joy turned and walked into another room.

James felt something rubbing on his chest. It fell onto his neck. He opened his eyes and grabbed it.

"Mew?" it questioned. It was Pikamew. James smiled and hugged the cat pokemon. "Ka...." it purred.

"What are you doing here? And, how did you get here?" James looked at it. Pikamew struggled to get out of James' hug. James let it go. Pikamew floated over to the foot of the bed and picked up a backpack. It brought it over to James. "My backpack!" James took the backpack. "Thank you!" he pulled out his radio. "I don't know if this will work," he sat up. "But, it's worth a try." He turned on the radio. Pikamew cuddled up next to James and purred. "Hello? Mondo? Clint? Anyone? Can anyone hear me?" James spoke into the radio. "This is James," he listened for a response. He growled and slammed his fist on the bed.

Pikamew stood up. "Pika?" it said in confusion. James looked down at Pikamew and smiled a nervous smile.

"I have to contact them somehow, Pikamew. They could be in trouble."

Pikamew looked at James and giggled. It floated over to the door and out of the room.

"Pikamew? Where are you going?" James yelled in a confused tone of voice. He sighed and slouched over, putting the radio back in his backpack.

Pikamew flew to the front room and grabbed a card off of the desk. It flew out of the Pokemon Center, and out over the island.

"Hmm... let's go this way," Butch pointed to the left.

Jessie was just finishing taping the number three mailbox piece on the map. She grabbed the map and sighed, "If you're sure..."

Butch turned and looked at Jessie. "What's wrong? Aren't you having fun?"

"Of course I'm having fun. I'm just hot. We've been in this maze for 3 1/2 hours... I've been sweating constantly this whole time. Jessie and Butch were in a big maze made out of a cornfield.

Butch chuckled, "Well, it is hot... but don't let it ruin your day."

"I didn't say it was," she looked up. "A bridge! We found a bridge!" Jessie ran up the steps of the bridge, opened her arms, and closed her eyes, allowing the light breeze to cool her off. "Ahh... that breeze feels so good..."

Butch laughed. "Jessie... you're so great." Jessie opened her eyes and looked at Butch. She blushed.

Another group walked up the steps on the other side of the bridge. Jessie looked at them and screamed, which made the group look up.

"You?!!!?!" Jessie and the group pointed at each other.

"What are you twerps doing here?!" Jessie crossed her arms and growled.

"We just came here to have a good time! What's it to you?!" Misty yelled back at her.

"And you'd better not even think of touching my Pikachu!" Ash added.

"Why do you follow us anyway?!" Tracey also added, with an annoyed tone of voice. Butch sweatdropped.

"Well, I'm sick of running into you brats... even on my vacations!!!"

"Well, that's too bad for you, but you're not getting Pikachu!" Ash directed Pikachu to stand in front of him. Jessie's head became huge and her teeth were as sharp as a vampire's.

"Shut up about your stupid Pikachu already!"

Ash, Misty, and Tracey screamed in fright.

"Pikachu! Thundershock!" Ash pointed for Pikachu to aim at Jessie.

"No no! Wait! I didn't do anything..." Jessie screamed.

"Pi.... ka... CHUUUUU!!!!!!" Pikachu sent out a big stream of lightning.

Jessie screamed as the lightning hit her.

"Come on guys... let's get past them!" Ash ran ahead of his friends, directing them to follow.

Jessie's body was completly black. She had huge, circular eyes.

"Um... Jessie? You okay?" Butch reached out to help her. Jessie coughed, letting out a puff of smoke, then fell over. When she fell over, the bridge fell over also.

A maze worker and the owner ran over to the fallen bridge.

"What the heck happend here?!" the custodian freaked out. The owner ran around to the other side to where Jessie and Butch were.

"They are what happened!" he stood with his arms crossed. "You two have some explaining to do!"

Jessie and Butch sweatdropped, then stood up quickly.

"Uh... heh... " Jessie placed her hand behind her head.

"You'd better be able to pay me back for that!"

Butch stepped front, "We can pay you... don't worry!"

Butch and Jessie both decided at the same time, "We'll work," they said.

"Okay, follow me..." the owner led them out into the courtyard to the gift shop. "Take a t-shirt then come with me." Butch and Jessie each took a t-shirt then followed the owner into the employee tent. "Put on your shirt, then grab a map and a radio. Then meet me back at the bridge you knocked down." Jessie and Butch nodded as the owner turned around and walked away.

"But, I doubt we have enough money..." Jessie sighed.

"Well," the owner began, "You could either give me the money... or you could work here for the rest of today and all of tomorrow. Tomorrow is Saturday, our busiest day. We need a few more custodians." he finished.

Jessie sighed. "Fixing those big bridges is guy work... and it's not even our fault the stupid thing fell over!" Jessie put on the maze t-shirt over her other shirt, then pulled off the other shirt from underneath.

Butch pulled off his shirt. "I know... it was that brat with the pikachu's..." he put on the maze shirt.

"Well, so much for vacation," Jessie sighed as she grabbed a map and radio. Butch took a map and radio, also, and led Jessie into the maze.

Ditto had led Mondo and the others to a beach.

"Um.. Ditto? Is he... out... that way?" Mondo pointed out into the ocean. Ditto nodded.

Clint whacked himself in the head. "How'd he get all the way out there?"

"Well, we don't know if this means he's been taken out over the water, or if he's been drowned." Kazuyuki said, sitting down in the sand.

"Well, we'll just have to find out then, won't we?!" Mondo replied, coming up with a plan. "Ditto, transform into a goldeen!" And Ditto did just that. It transformed from the snake pokemon, arbok, into the fish pokemon, goldeen. "Ditto, dive into the water, and see if you can find any sign of James. Come back to us as soon as you find something!" Mondo instructed to his now flopping Ditto. Ditto dove into the water.

Kazuyuki sighed, "And, if he's not down there?"

"Then I'll send Ditto out as Pidgiot," Mondo answered.

They all waited there for about a half hour.

"I'm so bored!" Clint whined as he was drawing in the sand. "I bet your Ditto doesn't know how to swim..." he sat out, spreading out his legs.

"Ditto knows how to do anything!" Mondo stomped. "Maybe he found James down there and doesn't know what to do!" Mondo crossed his arms.

"Okay... okay... Mondo. I'm sorry... It's just... I'm starving! When I get hungry like this, I get weird and whiney." Clint continued drawing in the sand. Suddenly, something flew past them, fast. Making them almost fall over. It woke up Kazuyuki.

"Wha... wha? What was... that?" Kazuyuki said in a sleepy voice. He yawned. Pikamew walked up behind him.

"Pikamew!" it said happily. Kazuyuki jumped.

"It's Pikamew!" Mondo said happily.

"Do we capture it?" Clint asked. Pikamew walked to Mondo and handed him a card.

"What's this?" he took the card. Kazuyuki and Clint rushed to Mondo.

"Mandarin Island Pokemon Center? What?" Kazuyuki scanned over the card. "What's this for?" They all looked at Pikamew, who was floating at about their head levels. They sweatdropped.

"Pikamew, why did you give me this?" Mondo questioned. Pikamew set its feet on the sand and started drawing a picture.

"What's it doing?" Clint was confused.

"James!" Kazuyuki recognized the picture that Pikamew was drawing. Pikamew floated up and nodded.

"Are you trying to tell us, that James is on Mandarin Island?" Mondo asked. Pikamew nodded and giggled.

"Yes! Okay! Now we just gotta get there!" Clint jumped for joy.

Mondo pulled out a pokeball. "Ditto! Return!" he shouted out towards the ocean. It didn't work. Mondo sighed. "Well, I guess that's not gonna work..." he put his pokeball away.

"Now how do we get across?" Clint went back to his spot to continue drawing in the sand. Pikamew suddenly just flew away.

"Pikamew!" Mondo chased after it for a few seconds, then turned and walked back to Kazuyuki.

Kazuyuki sighed, "Well, I guess now would be the time to use our swimming supplies?"

"Yeah, I guess so..." Mondo and Kazuyuki grabbed their backpacks and took out their swimming gear.

"Clint! Grab your swimming stuff and let's go!" Kazuyuki yelled.

"Yah! Okay!" Clint stood up and grabbed his backpack.

When everyone was ready, (after about two hours of figuring out where they were going by studying a map) they set out for Mandarin Island.

James and Cassidy had left the Pokemon Center and were walking back to the Rocket Slayers' Headquarters.

"Cassidy, I'm tired... Why do we have to go back to where we're just going to be killed, when we could stay safe at the Pokemon Center and call the Boss about it," James whined.

"We're going back there, because Chelsea brought us to this island using a boat. When we get there, we're gonna have to swipe one of their boats," Cassidy smirked.

James thought for a moment. "Oh, I get it. But, what happens if someone spots us?"

Cassidy paused, "W.... well, we'll worry about that if it happens," she turned around and faced James.

"Hmm, I guess you can do that if you want to. But, I'm worrying about it now!" he replied.

"Whatever," she grabbed his jacket and pulled him along.

As they came up to where they had escaped from the past night, they got really quiet and slow.

"Gurads!" Cassidy whispered, surprised. "Lucky for us, there were none around last night..."

"I wonder why they're out in the daytime, but not at night," James questioned.

"They're probably out because of our escape..." Cassidy replied.

James sweatdropped. "So, I guess your idea isn't going to work, is it..."

"Oh, I wouldn't say that, James. I'll come up with something, eventually..." she crossed her arms and went into thought. James also began to think.

"Wheezing!" James said suddenly.

"What?" Cassidy raised an eyebrow at him.

"We can use Wheezing's smog attack to block ourselves from being seen!" James reached for Wheezing's pokeball, and screeched. "Ahh!!! Where's my Wheezing?!"

Cassidy pulled out five pokeballs. "It's in one of these," she gave the pokeballs back to James. James sighed in relief. "That is a good idea, James. Heh... who would've thought that you... you out of all people, could've thought of something like that," Cassidy put her hands on her hips and leaned into one side. James put his hand behind his head and slightly blushed.

"Well, it's not really a new idea... I mean... Jessie and I do it all the time."

"Whatever. Well, I'll tell you what. The sun is going down. We'll wait here until dark, okay?" Cassidy instructed.

"Okay," James sat down in the grass, backed up against a tree, and looked at his pokeballs. Cassidy stayed ducked and watched the guards.