Disclaimer: My name's certainly not affiliated with Pokémon –not unless I want to be sued .
Story: Giovanni gets de-aged and more doors are opened for him. And yet the first thing he chooses to do is harass Ash Ketchum. Ash is just WTF?
Set after Unova, in the first episode of X and Y, a little around the time Ash first steps foot in Kalos.
Spoilers: I don't think so.
Warnings: Genderbending, perverts, raunchy humor, weird humor, craziness, etc…
Pairings: Giovanni/Ash: ShatterShipping.

For arashi wolf princess! Happy Birthday! Requested by vampygurl402.

Like a Boss
Chapter One: Bonnie and Clyde Reimagined

Giovanni wasn't quite sure what to make of his new situation. Granted, it seemed more of a boon to him than anything…

But being younger might have some disadvantages.

Ah, to hell with it! He was younger. How the hell could he have any problems with that? Especially since he was still old enough in terms to be drinking, holding a job, to smoke, and whatnot. He was going to take every opportunity that was going to be handed to him. And he was plenty sure that he was going to be handed some very useful opportunities.

Even if it was a mistake, he'll reward the R&D department handsomely for this.

Flipping through the files on his desk, he came upon a certain file from the JJM unit that he'd come to expect weekly, if not daily. He grinned as he flipped through it, ignoring that it was yet another failure from that trio.

He knew exactly what he'd wanted to do now.

Giovanni made some calls, and then he was off to get a car. A nice, sleek red car –fast and luxurious. Yes, he'll drive something like that, and he'll be driving himself.

Without further to do, he set off to find his car and then go to find a certain Ash Ketchum in Kalos.


Ash Ketchum was a sixteen year old trainer, and ready to kick some ass in Kalos. Of course, she'd just arrived, but that wasn't going to stop her from taking over and battling her way through this new region.

"Right, Pikachu?!" she was so pumped up.

"…Pika?" Pikachu questioned hesitantly, and Ash forgot that she'd been ranting in her head and not aloud.

She sweatdropped. "Er, sorry, Pikachu. I was thinking in my head again."

Pikachu let out a big sigh.

A loud vroom! sounded through the area, and Ash and Pikachu looked over to see an expensive-looking car drive by, stopping and parking near to them. And then a slightly familiar man stepped from out of the driver's seat, wearing a just as expensive dark suit and sunglasses.

Ash blinked. "Who's this guy?" she asked Pikachu.

"Pikachu? Pika," he shrugged at his owner.

The man leaned onto his car using his forearms, staring over at her with a smug smirk.

"Ash Ketchum?"

"Um, yes?"

"Perfect," he purred and then strode over to her, bodily picking her up and then going back to his car. Pikachu rushed after them, and attempted to shock the guy, who stopped and held out a hand at the mouse pokémon. Rubber gloves. "Nice try," he said cockily at him.

He continued in and got into the car, shoving her into the passenger seat up front, with Pikachu darting in and slipping into the back. The man started the car and drove off without another word. Of course, Pikachu knew better than to shock the man now, knowing he could cause an accident by either harming the guy who was driving or messing up the vehicle, so he reluctantly refrained by doing any attacks at all, especially electrical attacks.

"Who are you and where are we going?! And oh Arceus, I've been kidnapped!" Ash screeched.

"I'm hurt. You don't remember me?" the man continued to smirk.

Ash frowned and looked closer, before her eyes widened.

"Wait…no way! Giovanni?!"

"Good job," he mockingly praised.

"What happened? Why do you look younger?" Ash began to hyperventilate, which she thought was fair, considering she'd just been kidnapped by the boss of Team Rocket, who had seemed to have de-aged from the last time she saw him.

"An accident from my Research and Development department," he shrugged slightly. "I'm twenty-one, I believe. Which is fantastically brilliant."

"Good for you," she said sarcastically, still panicking. "But why am I here?"

"To celebrate? Who knows. I just felt like taking you."

"That's stupid! You jerk!" she started cursing at him, scrambling for any insult she could come up with in her head.

"My, my, what a mouth," he chuckled. "Should I pull over and spank you?"

Ash shut up and looked at him wide-eyed.

"You were just joking, right?" she muttered a moment later, sullenly crossing her arms around her chest and glaring at her feet.

"Hm…maybe."

Her eye twitched.

Sometime later, she finally asked him what he wanted again. Giovanni frowned.

"You know, I really don't know. I honestly just felt like getting you and driving off. A whim, I suppose."

"I don't have time for your whims!" Ash shouted. "I've got to get back and follow Alexa to where her sister's gym is, so I can start collecting badges in this region and maybe I can finally win a league!"

He abruptly stepped on the brakes, and the car jolted to a stop. He turned to look at her and tilted his head.

"Her sister is out of town and not in Lumiose City in the first place. Your first Kalos gym would have been in Lumiose City, but it takes in only trainers who have four badges already, and is currently taken over and being run by an artificial intelligence created by the original gym leader, leading you to have to go to the next city to get a badge. You have time to waste with me," he said arrogantly.

She twitched and stared at him. "How did you…how did you know about Alexa and her sister and that I was with her? Or all that? At all?"

Giovanni gave her a "So what?" look and Ash began plastering herself against the door.

"Stalker! Oh Arceus, you're a stalker! A pervert! A deviant!" she started screaming.

Honestly, Pikachu should have done something by now to help out his mistress, but she was so amusing right now (and especially with the Rocket Boss). Plus, Giovanni wasn't doing anything extremely threatening (aside from the scare-worthy driving speed), and was being rather entertaining as he worked up Pikachu's mistress.

Giovanni snorted. "Jessie, James, and Meowth have been following you since you practically began your journey, and never fail to report about you and their failures because of you. Of course I know all about you and what you're up to. Besides, I make it my business to know everything."

"…Pervert stalker!"


It wasn't until sometime later that Giovanni finally stopped, right in front of a diner.

"Are you hungry?" he surprisingly asked her.

She squirmed in her seat before nodding. He nodded back and pressed the button to release her seatbelt for her.

"Thank you," she muttered, opening the door and getting out. Being that all her pokémon, except for Pikachu, had been left behind, she wondered if she could still outrun him. Glancing at him, she doubted it. Especially since he still had some pokémon, and she had no doubt that Persian of his was one of them.

It would be a repeat of Meloetta all over again, even without a special shield cage thingy. Unless he had a portable one on him…

He slipped an arm around one of hers, surprising her as he was suddenly there and had broken her out of her mutinous thoughts, but then also taking her aback with the strange action.

"Come. You may order whatever you'd like."

Well, in that case…

Inside, she found that everything sounded delicious. She felt all hungry, and just remembered that she'd not eaten since the small snacks she'd had on board the plane to Kalos. Her eyes landed on one particular dish and she glanced at Giovanni over the menu. He was also browsing through his own.

She bit her lip and turned her menu around. "Um, can I have this?"

He looked up and saw what she was pointing at. "I don't see why not. Go ahead."

Ash grinned happily to herself and browsed the drinks next.

After their order, to which Pikachu enjoyed a ketchup bottle to himself as he curiously observed the odd male they were currently plagued with, Giovanni suddenly spoke up.

"You know, if you bear with me, I can save you time by driving you to the next city," he offered. "I decided there's only one thing I want from you."

She looked at him suspiciously, and even Pikachu took his attention off of his bottle of ketchup to look at Giovanni.

"And that is?" Ash asked distrustfully.

"I noted a pattern to your activities in each region. You tend to…get involved with the respective Teams in each region, and face off with them, even eventually bringing them down. Well, minus my Team of course. But after my Team and the regions where I hold sovereign over, you've managed to take down Aqua, Magma, Galactic, and recently Plasma. Team Flare, in this region, is still active however. Though you've yet to run across them in the first place, I don't doubt that you'll eventually…but I'm thinking of taking the fight to them. You can take the Team out early in your journey, as opposed to tangling with them and eventually taking them out later."

Ash was hesitant, but she agreed that she did tend to have to deal with each Team for each region she'd been to.

"I'll be your ride through each city, if you agree," he promised (not like she could trust his word). "Just come with me to take out their bases along the way to their main headquarters."

"And where is that?" she asked warily.

"I know for a fact it's located in Geosenge Town," he stated certainly. "We can take them out. Just the two of us."

She looked at him skeptically, but then again…she had witnessed his awesome prowess at battling (she was still cowed and put out by the quick loss to him), and she was an awesome battler herself. Except –

"I left most of my pokémon back in Professor Oak's lab," she said dejectedly.

"Not a problem," he said dismissively. "You may use some of mine –"

"I want to use Persian," she said quickly, eyes lighting up.

He raised an eyebrow at her, but though she blushed, she refused to take it back or act all embarrassed.

"Very well. He'll probably agree to it. Who else do you want to use?"

She straightened up eagerly. "Who do you have with you?"

"Kingler, Rhydon, Machamp, Golem, Nidoking, Nidoqueen, and Beedrill," he listed off.

"That's right, I forgot you were a ground-type gym leader," she remembered his time at the Viridian Gym. "But what about Beedrill?" she remembered the last one.

"She was the first pokémon I caught on my own pokémon journey," Giovanni revealed to her. "I caught her in the Viridian Forest. She's special because of being the first pokémon I caught and because she's from my 'birthplace.'" He hesitated before adding, "I also have a Charizard, who had been my original, official starter."

She blinked, surprised at that information. But then she counted off the pokémon he'd just listed, including Persian, and then gaped at him.

"That's nine pokémon!"

He looked at her carelessly. "So?"

"That's three more than you should have," she accused him.

He smirked. "I'm a criminal crime boss of an illegal organization. Need I say more?"

"Jerk!"

But she had agreed to his proposition in the end, so nothing else really mattered.


Ash had ended up with a team consisting of Pikachu, Persian, Nidoqueen, and Rhydon, who Giovanni insisted be officially traded over (she couldn't even understand how he managed that to be one-sided), only for Ash to become surprised as it evolved into Rhyperior, and Giovanni smugly smirking –she had a feeling he knew that would happen and was why the bastard insisted on an official trade).

She wished she could keep this party as her official team as she battled it out for badges through the region.

"So where to?" she reluctantly asked, finishing acquainting herself with her team.

"There's actually a base nearby," he told her calmly, even though he had the nerve to just pop that information on her now. "We'll be going incognito."

She looked at him in confusion, and he went over to the side and dragged two unconscious people from behind some trees. She gaped at him.

"While you were busy familiarizing yourself with your team, I went ahead and found these two. We'll be borrowing their clothing to infiltrate the base."

"You…you knocked them out…"

"It was a necessary evil," he said serenely. "Now help me undress these two."

She grumbled, but came over and helped, eventually splitting up from him to change behind the trees on the other side. When she came back out, she saw that the Team Flare outfit from the male just barely fit onto Giovanni's large frame.

"Ready to go?" he asked her.

"Yeah, yeah. Let's get this over with," she groused unhappily.

"Don't sound so enthusiastic," he said sarcastically, leading the way back to the car.

She grunted.

The car started up and then he was driving away, leaving two unconscious and half-naked Flare grunts in the wayside.

In boredom, Ash turned on the radio, with the first song turning on being Haystack's Bonnie and Clyde.

Giovanni opened his mouth –

"I am not Bonnie."

He closed his mouth, but he still had an annoying smirk on his face.

"We do need codenames though," he brought up a second later.

Her eye twitched and she started muttering under her breath.

"Fine," she finally acquiesced. "But I'm not going to get gunned down with you."

"Of course, my little bon-bon."

If he wasn't driving, she would be attempting to throttle him right now. Heck, she was still contemplating the merits of it anyway.

She was still contemplating it an hour later, when they finally made it all the way to this so-called secret base of Team Flare's.

Giovanni tutted disapprovingly. "And they call this a base," he snubbed it. "Pathetic."

Ash had to remind herself that she was with a crime boss of an illegal organization, and this wasn't a normal situation. Pikachu and Persian consoled her, with Pikachu steadfastly being as loyal as always and Persian knowing his master and feeling sympathetic of her plight.

"Hey, what are we going to do when we actually go inside? I mean, okay –we've got the uniforms and we'll be sneaking in…but then what?" she asked, not knowing what his exact plans were.

"We storm it."

Her eyes bugged out. "WHAT?"

"Isn't that your normal modus operandi?" he gave her a look. "That's what you usually do, right?"

"You're a crime lord! You're super smart and stuff! I thought you would have thought this through a little more and actually have a plan! The exact opposite of me," she hissed out at him.

He tossed her a wink with a saucy smirk. "Opposites attract, you know."

She blinked and then stared at him. Had he just…

"Are you…were you…Giovanni, did you just flirt with me?"

Giovanni grinned at her before leering. "Want me to park to the side so you can find out?"

She stared a bit more before growling, "Persian, claws out."

Persian did as he was ordered, hovering close to Giovanni, who leaned away and looked at him warily.

"Traitor," Giovanni grumbled at his pokémon.

Persian just gave him a look that practically said "I'm not technically yours at the moment, remember?"

And Giovanni just sighed and parked off to the side, the two of them leaving the car to head to the base and take charge.


Their outfits provided perfect coverage and no one questioned their presence there.

"This is boring," Giovanni complained quietly. "It's going too easy."

"That's what we want," Ash tried to hush him, glaring hotly. "We don't want to be harassed!"

"But that's so boring. I expected battles and repartee and whatnot; things I expect that you must usually go through. Going through all this with you, I wanted the whole experience! Your experiences must've been much more exciting than this," he huffed.

"I didn't think you'd de-aged mentally as well," Ash irritably shot at him.

"Who knows?" he shrugged it off.

"Hey!" someone hollered to them. Two of the Flare grunts, all in red and hair styled, walked over to them. "Where are you two supposed to be stationed at?"

Ash started to sweat, though she enviously glanced at Giovanni's cool and calm demeanor. She glared at the two grunts, though she was glad the uniform sunglasses hid it and helped her not break her disguise.

"I'm not sure. Makeover unit or something," she said snidely, the last part under her breath.

Unfortunately, they heard her.

"Did someone say…"

"…makeover?"

The two of them grinned wickedly and she stared at them in horror.

Giovanni pushed her forward and they latched onto her.

"She did," he said blandly.

They began dragging her away and Ash screamed at him in fury.

"Traitor, traitor! I'll get you back for this!"

"Bye, Bonnie," he waved at her.

"Damn you, Clyde!"

Damned codenames.


When she found him after she finally escaped from those two's (joined soon after by a whole horde of others) clutches, she saw that he was in the process of hacking into a computer in some kind of computer room.

"Thanks for the distraction," he said distractedly, finishing up.

"Why you!" she stomped over to him and grabbed his collar, yanking him to face her. "How dare you –!"

But he just grabbed her hands and then without warning, kissed her heatedly. And though she hated to admit it, he was one hell of a kisser.

He pulled away, smirking that smug smirk of his.

"Triumph, my dear, triumph."

And then he pressed a button and the computer screens all began to mess up, only two words appearing onscreen: Rocket Supreme.

He picked her up into his arms suddenly and then began to run.

"Come, my Bonnie! Before we get 'gunned down,' as you said."

She didn't know whether to smack him or (she would never admit this aloud) pull him into another kiss.

And as they drove away in his car, he was laughing freely and she thought that being de-aged had done wonders for him.

"This is rather exciting," he said in delight. "Your normal activities are rather a thrill to be pulled into."

"My 'normal activities' aren't normal or usual for everyone else," she said wryly.

"But that makes you so much more unique and interesting," Giovanni purred, turning to her as he rubbed a knuckle down her cheek.

Her face turned hot immediately.

"Keep your hands to yourself, Casanova," but she didn't do or say anything else, and Persian and Pikachu contentedly watched their two owners in amusement.

He sighed happily. "Onto your gym and then the next base. Repeat after me, dear Ash –Rocket Today, Rocket Tomorrow, Rocket Forever!"

He gave her an expectant look and she relented after a moment, leading him to inwardly wickedly grin.

There was only room in the world for one boss, and he was going to stay on top and topple the rest, take the girl, take the world, and take out the competition.

Like a real boss.

Started 8/31/14 – Completed 8/31/14

A/n: So that came out a bit crackish XD This is a one-shot, but I might continue it later on. It would be interesting, especially since I would be writing this differently from a pokémon journey, and more of a renegade duo taking on Team Flare and a side of gym battles…Please, please, review if you enjoyed!