James shivered as he; Jessie and Meowth entered the chilling, sinister gym. It was so dark it was hard to see where they were going. There was a forbidding echo whenever anyone made a sound and the only thing James wanted in the world was to grab Jessie put Meowth in a safe Pokeball and run far away.

But he had to continue he couldn't run away from Giovanni and Team Rocket now, he had too much involved it in to just run away because he knew his boss was mad at him.

"James SHUT UP!" Jessie said. James hadn't said anything but his teeth were clattering together violently due to the cold of the gym and his fear of what he knew was coming. Although he tried his hardest to stop he could only quiet them, a little which made Jessie glare at him

James tried to ignore her, Jessie was just nervous. She really did care about him like he cared about her. They were best friends…right? James questioned in his mind.

All of a sudden the lights flickered scaring James half to death. Giovanni, never one to under do anything, appeared on a giant TV screen above the Rockets heads. He was giving the terrified team a death glare and appeared to be shaking with anger. He was more infuriated at them than ever before because they had lost a battle to Ash so he defeated them and won a very prestigious hard to win badge. This made James hate them even more; they just had to get him Meowth and Jessie in trouble. It was all Ash's fault.

"I'm sor-" James began as he got on his knees to beg for forgiveness, the cold floor pierced his skin.

"SILANCE!" Giovanni yelled.

James started shaking. It wasn't as if he, Meowth and Jessie were new to Giovanni's anger, they usually enraged him and were told off for it at least once every month. But this was big; it was bigger than failing to steal a useless Pokemon. This time they had done something to hurt Giovanni's and Team Rocket's reputation and Giovanni was exceptionally defensive of his reputation.

He had also never yelled at them, instead keeping up an act of calm yet scary anger. This, they were finding was worse, much worse.

"I AM SICK OF YOU SCREWING UP EVERY SINGLE TIME I ASK YOU TO DO EVEN THE SIMPILEST TASK! I REGRET THE DAY I EVER MET YOU! I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT COULD HAVE POSSED ME TO GIVE YOU TWO IDIOTS THE JOB!"

By this time Jessie, James and Meowth were clutching each other and shaking.

"NOTHING I EVER DO GETS THROUGH TO YOU AND I AM SICK AND TIRED OF MY PUNISHMENTS MEANING NOTHING TO YOU SO THIS TIME I AM GOING TO MAKE SURE MY PUNISHMENT DOES NOT GO UNNOTICED! THIS TIME I AM GOING TO PUNISH YOU IN A WAY THAT WILL MAKE YOU MAKE SURE YOU NEVER MESS UP AGAIN!" Giovanni stopped yelling, and took a deep breath.

Very few members of Team Rocket had ever seen Giovanni lose control of his temper, and the few rumors of times when he had were terrifying. When Giovanni got mad someone always got hurt.

Giovanni snapped his fingers and two intimidating and buff men wearing black Team Rocket uniforms and black hats with Team Rocket Body Guards written on them in red appeared seemingly out of no where.

"Now one pathetic thing about your team in particular is that you care about each other." Giovanni was back to his scary calm now. He was almost whispering and Team Rocket found themselves unknowingly lean closer to him to hear what he was saying.

"The only way to get through your think skulls is by hurting your partner. The members I respect are heartless they could honestly care less about what happens to their team mate as long as they get paid well and accomplish their mission. This is how Team Rocket should be, cold-blooded, cruel killers. But you, you have failed that lesson completely and actually love one another. It disgusts me. So I'm going to punish you for this, and all the problems you've put me and my team through. I am going to take one of you and allow the others to see how badly they get hurt." Giovanni said.

"But which one shall I take. STAND STRAIGHT YOU IDIOTS!" He yelled.

James was scared to let Jessie go but he forced himself to. The trio all pulled out of their huddle and stood straight like they had been ordered to. They were now shaking even more without having each other to hold on to.

"Should it be Meowth? I could learn so much about cat like Pokemon by testing his pain tolerance level and maybe I could even get him to shut up for once." Giovanni said.

Although Giovanni was terrible to certain people he would never be cruel to a Pokemon. He only said that to scare Jessie and James he was beyond enjoying the looks of terror and dread they had on there faces, at the though of there loud mouthed annoying friend getting injured.

Giovanni's guards picked Meowth off the ground and he bit them. This resulted in Meowth receiving a hard slap to the back of his head.

"Hey what's the big idea?" Meowth fierce as always asked.

The guard hit him on the back of the head once again this time way too hard, there was a loud smacking sound that echoed through the desolate gym making James feel sick to his stomach. Meowth whimpered but remained silent at that point.

"Or perhaps I will take Jessie she is after all very desirable." Giovanni said.

James started shaking harder. He had heard all the nasty rumors about what Giovanni did to young beautiful women who had failed to complete the tasks he had assigned them.

"Well of course I am beautiful but what does that have to do with torture," Jessie who was far more innocent than she pretended to be said foolishly.

Giovanni just smiled down at her.

"Oh you will see soon enough. Yes, I will take Jessie." Giovanni snapped his fingers. The guards immediately grabbed Jessie and began to drag her out of the room.

James stood motionless he knew what Giovanni would do to his best friend in the world, heck his only human friend in the world. They would destroy the innocence she always pretended not to have. He knew he couldn't let that happen, yet there he stood stunned unable to move.

Jessie, who would of course never go down without a fight punched one of the men giving him an impressive black eye. The guard pulled her hair and she screamed.

Something cracked in James when he heard Jessie, his Jessie get hurt.

"Stop!" James yelled.

Everyone stopped in there tracks to look at what they believed to be a weak purple-haired male. They couldn't believe he had just spoken against his bosses' direct wishes, a crime punishable by death in Team Rocket.

"Please don't take her." James begged, he was crying now terrified of the though of losing Jessie.

"Take me! Please take me! Torture me, just don't ra-, don't hurt Jessie. Please!" James begged.

Giovanni smiled, slightly which was left unnoticed. He often wondered how James could be so easy to manipulate, soon he would have his prize.

"James stop!" Jessie demanded.

"No! They're going to hurt you Jessie. They're going to hurt you badly."

"Get a grip." Meowth said.

"Stay out of this!" James and Jessie demanded at the exact same time.

Giovanni snapped his fingers and once again started to drag Jessie away from the room. James threw himself at the guards, still crying.

"No, no please no, don't take her. I'll do anything just don't take her." James pleaded in a tone of utter desperation.

"Oh really anything…" Giovanni said.

James nodded and wiped a few tears away from his eyes, suddenly ashamed at himself for crying. He just couldn't help himself, the idea of anyone taking his Jess away from him and doing that to her. It sickened his admittedly kind and loving heart.

"Is that a yes," Giovanni prompted.

"Yes I will do anything." James said.

Giovanni laughed a laugh that could cut through your soul like a blade while freezing you to the core like polar ice.

"Then come." Giovanni ordered.

"James you don't have to do this they want me not you." Jessie said hugging her James fiercely.

"I'll b-be ok," James said, now that Jessie was safe he transformed into his typical weak self. Still if this was what it took to keep his the only two friends he ever had safe it was worth it. The guards yanked the small shaking man away from his only safety blanket without caring for the tender moment.

All of a sudden out of nowhere Jessie kicked one of the guards. Meowth took down one of the guards While Jessie with a powerful right hook, several crutch kicks and a smile knocked the other guard out cold.

"You, you tried to attack a guard for me?" James started crying again this time in pure joy. She did care about what happened to him.

"No, he was just really annoying me," Jessie said.

James sunk a little on the inside. He though what she just did was proof that she cared, but apparently it wasn't. Giovanni smiled James would pay badly for his friend's impudence whether or not it was his fault. Giovanni snapped his fingers again and this time fifty guards appeared.

"You dare to try and stop me; a girl and a kitten, please." Giovanni laughed, "I will have no more of this ridiculousness. Take him."

On Giovanni's order the guards drug James away.

"I'll be ok. Don't worry about me Jess." James said and for the first time since she was a kid Jessie felt tears well up in her eyes as she watched her only real friend being drug off to be tortured.

Well there it is chapter one. I hope you enjoyed it and there's lots more to come. Please review!