Told you there'd be an epilouge. This will be rather short though. Shocking reveal here, hope you enjoy!

Team Rocket base; Sinnoh

The leader of the new Team Rocket stood on a balcony overlooking some younger members of their cause battling against the special battle hologram program with an assortment of Lucarios, Riolus, Greninjas, and other Pokemon that grew in large numbers as their partners. He could see that some of the Pokemon were fighting with a bit of reluctancy. The leader knew that they would soon understand.

A door behind him opened and the lead scientist joined his leader by his side. "How are they doing," asked the leader in a low voice, "are there any results?"

"Nothing as what happens to Ash Ketchum and his Greninja," says the scientist, "Nothing that we are doing is making any of them syncronize. But we may just need to work harder; get more equipment," he hurriedly added as the leader looked back at him. The leader gave a heavy sigh and said, "And how is our major part going? Are we sucessful at least in that?"

"The Lucario, Gothitele, and Mew DNA are binding nicely," says the scientist, holding up a data pad, allowing the leader to look through it. After a few moments, the leader asks, "And do we have a name for our creation?"

"Mewthree seemed appropriate enough," said the scientist, smiling with him, "It even reacted a bit."

The scientst then asked worredly on the situation of Ash Ketchum. "He's somewhere near the boundary between Kanto and Johto," said the leader, "We don't know where he is, but we suspect that he will be coming back to challenge us again,"

"This does not bode well, " says the scientist.

"Anymore so than the Restless Pokemon?" the TR leader snaps.

The scientist started to stammer that they were nothing more than a wrench in the cause, and that nothing would stop them, but the Team Rocket leader then snapped that, "Wild Pokemon banding together is a threat that will have to be elliminated at all costs!"

"As you say sir," says the scientist

"We have lost ground," says the Team Rocket leader, "We have thought to catch the world unprep. this time. But it has been warned, and now we must tred carefully, for we cannot stop. We shall use our influence to end these threats that face us, use our enemies against themselves. And then, if necessary, we will conquer. But fo rnow, our main course of action will be to conquer the world through political and economic means. A harder, but surely, a more worthwhile path."

"It shall be as you say sir," the scientist says, "I shall go back to work, to make sure that Team Rocket recieves its glory and takes its place in the world. Under your leadership, Dagan."

"And just like Ash Ketchum's Raichu," said Dagan, "Ash will fall under our numbers. With no help to come. He and all of his friends will fall under the might of the new Team Rocket."

Down on the battlefield, one peculiar, glowing-eyed Riolu glances resentfully up at his trainer, who urges him into the attack, who does so reluctantly.

He would escape, eventually. But he was not strong enough, but he would grow stronger, he was sure of it. He could feel his true trainer, his true friend out there, somewhere. Somewhere...

End of Book One

I hope you all enjoyed the Pain of Asher. Coming up next is The Ketchum Legacy: Divide and Conquer!

See you all next time!