(chapter three is redone, hope it's better this should be the last one i have to redo.)

(Red)

"We'll reach the town in about ten minutes Blue," I shouted over my shoulder at the panting girl behind me. "Remember, this towns not a target, or a threat, there is no reason to do more than walk through. Honestly, its not like they have anything worth stealing anyway."

"Why are you always running?" she groaned back "Whats wrong with stealing some food every once in a while anyway? We're Team Rocket Agents, its almost required of us." she challenged.

"Yeah? Required huh? Should we also start every battle with 'PREPARE FOR TROUBLE!'?" I asked, making a mock pose. "We may be Team Rocket, but we don't have to be Jesse and James, those two are pitiful, it took them years to capture a single pokemon, three-fourths of the pokemon they failed to catch I have caught in these past few months. They mock what it is to be a rocket." I finished.

"At least those two were fun, not just a stick in the mud like you!" she shot back, "all you ever want to do is walk around the country side. Do you realize we have been to 10 different bases in these last 2 months?" I don't care if you are the most successful agent in Sinnoh, YOU ARE SOO BORING!!" she yelled at me.

I let her vent, there was nothing I could do about it. She was the spoiled daughter of some high ranking executive, she had been pampered for most of her life and a little walking was doing her good. Besides, if I was required to partner with her, which wasn't that bad usually, she would have to follow me, because I had things to do..

We stepped into the town, and immediately I could tell something was wrong. The townspeople on edge. They were walking hurriedly from place to place, trying not to look at anything or anyone in particular. They were scared of something.

"Do you think they recognize us?" whispered Blue, who was, I had to admit, perceptive if nothing else.

"No, they couldn't," I replied. "We aren't in uniform, we just look like a pair of travelers. Trust me, something is definitely up..." I said through gritted teeth. I didn't like this at all. It was a trap. But what kind of trap, and for who?

"Lets get out of here, I don't like the feel of this" agreed Blue.

We walked through the town square, past the pokemon center, and the poke-mart. Everything was peaceful, but I just couldn't shake that there was something wrong here.

"I guess we were just a little nervous huh?" whispered blue with a nervous giggle, "Maybe its just a bad day? EEEEEEPPP!!!!!!"

I whipped around as Blue screamed, and saw her squirming in the claws of an overly large Blastoise. Standing next to them was a teenager in a blue shirt, with his spiked hair and cocky grin, I knew him the second I saw him.

"Gary Oak, for what do we have the pleasure of your impromptu attack?" I growled, none to pleasantly. "and, would you mind putting down my friend there?"

"The notorious team rocket agents, Blood Red, and the Blue Shadow, I've been hunting you two for 2 months now." he replied back grinning cockily back at me. "I never figured it would be this easy to take you two in, but I guess that's what you get when you plan every move."

"Drop the girl and I will fight you, if you win, you can turn me in" I shot back, pulling on my lucky Rocket Cap. "You won't get very far if you take her, but I am the one with access to the stolen pokemon."

"Sure," he replied, "Or, I could just use her to make you give up. 2 pidgey with one rock throw, you get the concept, no? No, I'm not going to let her go, I know better than to fight you both. In the past two months you have been responsible for the robbery of nearly 50 trainers, and even three gym leaders. You have held Sinnoh in your grip for too long."

"What can I say? I'm just following orders." I returned

"Sorry buddy, orders or not, I'm putting an end to this now. Arcanine, use flame wheel" he commanded as he tossed out a pokeball. His arcanine roared and charged, curling into a flaming ball that hurtled towards me with malicious intent.

"Stantler, Take Down!" I shouted as my deer shot out of its ball, and slammed into the flaming dog. It braced its legs stopping the arcanine in its tracks, then threw it backwards where it uncurled and landed on its feet "Sorry Oak, but I'm not a normal grunt, you wont find six rattata's here." I sneered back

"whatever, your team cant save you" he growled, "arcanine, close in and use bite"

His arcanine bounded in towards stantler and opened its mouth ready to ravage its unprotected flanks.

"Dodge it and use hypnosis" I shouted.

The deer leaped to the side, and its horns began to glow purple. It stared blankly at the raging dog concentrating its psychic powers into its horns.

"Like I'd fall for that old trick, arcanine, use flame wheel again." shouted Gary

The dog curled up again and shot towards my stantler and I saw my mistake right as it was to late: while arcanine was curled up, it wasn't looking into stantler's eyes, which meant hypnosis was useless.

Gary's arcanine slammed into stantler, with a force that knocked the deer back into a building, laying it out cold..

"I'm sorry stantler, if we make it out of this, I promise I wont make a mistake like that ever again," I whispered as I returned it to its pokeball. "Murkrow, use haze," I shouted as my bird lifted off of its perch on my shoulder.

The Crow opened its beak and black smog filled the area. I pulled on a simple face mask to keep the smoke from affecting me, and a pair of goggles so I could see through it.

"Arcanine, use Flamethrower," shouted Gary, obviously thinking he still had the advantage.

I leaped to the side behind a building as fire shot through to the place I previously occupied.

I had to take control of this battle before someone got hurt.

* * * * *

(Gary Oak)

"One Down, and 3 to go" I thought to myself. This battle was going perfectly, my plan was unstoppable. This "Blood Red" would pay for his crimes. In the past 5 months, this mysterious thief had stolen hundreds of pokemon, robbing everyone from the weakest trainers, to gym leaders. The strange thing was, he had robbed each of the trainers that had traveled with Ash throughout the world. His most publicized victims included: Famous artist Tracy Sketchit, Contest Champion May, her genius brother max, and now the gym leaders Brock and Misty.

At first I had thought that he might have been Ash himself, possibly undercover in team rocket, but even with the looks, it couldn't be. For one thing, Ash would never rob his friends, and also, his pokemon were safely with professor, with the exception of his Muk and his Kingler, which were stolen from Tracy Sketchit.

"Arcanine, use Flamethrower, and aim for Red," I said calmly as the haze filled the streets.

It let out a roar and opened its maw as flames engulfed the street in front of it, piercing the haze.

"Ha ha, nice shot boy, I would never thought the champion of justice would resort to attacking the trainer himself," shouted the cocky robber through the haze. "But you just lost."

Helplessly blind, all I could do is listen as there was an explosion, and out of the smog flew my Arcanine. It slammed into Blastoise, knocking the girl, Blue, out of its hands. It landing on her trapping her under its unconscious fur.

"Murkrow, clear the haze with your Gust," shouted Red from somewhere off to the left.

I felt a blast of wind, and the black fog was gone, and there was Red, standing in his Team Rocket costume, his hat turned backwards, it almost looked like.... well.... Ash... but no, Ash was dead.

In front of him stood a wickedly familiar looking kingler. It had torn a huge trench in the street with its explosive crab-hammer.

"Red! GET ME OUT OF HERE!!" Blue shouted, struggling under the arcanine's fur.

"Yes your Blue-ness!" he yelled back laughing. "I'll save you once I vanquish this garrulous knave!"

Knave? Was he really just fucking with me? He knew who I was, but he was just fucking with me! Who the hell was this "Blood Red" and where did he get off mocking the greatest trainer alive?

"Exeggutor, shut him up!" I yelled. I didn't know why, but this guy really got under my skin.

The tree shambled out of its pokeball and started to gently sway in the breeze.

"Now, use egg bomb!" I commanded.

Exeggutor shook its torso and began heaving eggs at the crab. Without any command from its owner, the kingler began scuttling side to side, dodging the eggs as they exploded on the ground.

"Kingler, use metal claw!" red ordered, lounging easily on the roof of the poke-mart.

"Protect!" I shouted.

The crab's claw started glowing and it wound up and slammed it into the tree pokemon's barrier, which turned it to the side.

"Now use Giga Drain" I ordered, trying to follow up on my advantage.

Exeggutor slammed its foot down on the crab and roots erupted and engulfed its body. The roots started draining the health out of the water pokemon, and I looked at Red, expecting him to panic at the impending loss of his pokemon. Instead, he merely shrugged and said one cold word.

"Guillotine"

I watched in horror as the crabs claw shot up out of the mass of roots, grabbed my pokemon around the trunk, and severed its top half.

I fell to my knees and watched the life fade out of my pokemon. When I got up, my eyes were full of hate, this boy was going down, and I was going defeat him if it took every dirty trick I knew.

I looked up at Red and saw that he wasn't smiling anymore. "That's right," I thought, "I'm not a joke, so stop laughing"

"Pidgeot, use sky attack," I whispered, as I tossed its pokeball up in the air.

The bird shot up into the sky and started glowing pooling its energy into a no holds barred dive.

"You're wasting your energy, you know you will never hit me," snapped Red, looking at me questioningly.

"You're Right," I replied, "Or you would be. If I hadn't already planned this out."

I threw out another pokeball.

"Alakazam, use Psychic, hold Kingler in place." I said coldly.

Red watched with a look that said he had resigned to losing Kingler. Alakazam began to glow blue and Kingler was raised off its feet and lifted into the air, right as Pidgeot flashed out of the sky and slammed into it with full force. The kingler and the pidgeot hit the ground hard enough to splinter the street, and when the dust settled, both pokemon lay there unconscious.

"You're lucky I don't blame pokemon for orders given by their masters." I said spitting at the ground next to me. "That kingler will be just fine, maybe it can even be returned to its original trainer."

"Shut it and chose your next pokemon, or would you like me to take out your alakazam next?" Red replied.

"No, you won't get that far. Rhydon's gonna take you out." I said coldly. There was no way I was gonna let him try to use that murkrow's dark advantage against my psychic pokemon.

I tossed out the pokeball and watched as Rhydon roared and stomped its feet threateningly. This pokemon would take him out, him and the rest of the buildings around him. When I had the reward money put up for Reds capture, I would return and rebuild the town we were quickly destroying.

"Your taking the direct approach huh?" he commented, "Lets drop this fool Muk."

He tossed down a pokeball and a putrid slime started oozing out. When it was finished, a pair of arms and eyes popped out, and it opened its mouth and bellowed its challenge at Rhydon.

"Rhydon use Take Down!" I yelled.

The tank of a rhino slammed into the slime and slammed it into a wall.

"Now keep using mega punch until you knock it out." I finished

I watched as Rhydon started pummeling it into the wall, something was nagging me, it didn't seem right for Red to just be watching his pokemon be pummeled into.... well... jelly. Then with a sickening feeling I realized just what he was planning on doing. I called for Rhydon to stop, to get away, but it was too late. I watched as the slime covered it from head to toe.

"Now, use Toxic, and follow it up with Giga Drain." Red ordered

"No! Get out!" I shouted at Rhydon, who was struggling to no avail to clear the goo off of itself. I heard its cries growing weaker, but it finally managed to knock the offending ooze off. Without even an order, it lifted its foot as high as it could.

"Fissure!" I thought to myself, "lets see that muk withstand this."

Before it could slam the foot down though, Rhydon toppled to the ground, knocked out by the toxins.

"GOD DAMN IT!" I shouted frustratedly. "Alakazam, use psybeam!"

The psychic pokemon widened its stance and shot a beam of pure mental energy from between its eyes, hitting the muk and throwing it into the wall, knocking it unconscious.

Before I could call Alakazam back, I saw a shadow as murkrow appeared on its shoulder.

"NO! You knew I would do that, you were waiting for me to put it into play weren't you!" I yelled and cried in frustration.

"Yep, now use dark pulse." He replied, his face devoid of any emotion.

The bird faded into darkness and it seemed like all of the shadows in the world condensed into that spot. Everything went completely black, and it felt as if all the evils in the world had been released, then all at once, it was bright again, and the crow was back on Red's shoulder. I looked down and saw my alakazam out stone cold, a terrified expression across its face.

"God damn, if I cant take you out, I'll make you give up!" I swore, looking down at the girl who was still struggling under the weight of my arcanine's unconscious body.

"Don't you dare you bastard!" he shouted, his face turning to a mask of pure fury, his eyes burning red. "DON'T TOUCH HER!"

"Blastoise," I said, almost surprised at how cold I sounded, "Kick the girl around a little bit, lets see if the boy wont see the light."

The tortoise lumbered over, and yanked her out from under the big dog.

"Please! Don't hurt me! HELP ME RED!!" she screamed.

I heard a shrill whistle and saw red drop a small pipe. Before I could question the meaning of this gesture, a huge orange shape slammed Blastoise into a building, knocking the girl out of its hand and throwing her across the ground into a building where she crumpled.

"Charizard," I heard Red shout from behind me, "Kill them both. Hyper Beam."

I dropped to my knees, and watched as Blastoise flew through the air towards me.

I had lost.

I was going to die.

In retrospect, I should have died. The only thing that saved me was my blastoise's quick thinking. It grabbed onto me, and hardened its shell, withdrawing everything but its arms inside. I heard Charizard roar and felt the impact of its hyper-beam, enough power to send Blastoise flying through the air, and enough to knock me out on contact.

Only one person had a charizard that powerful.

But it couldn't be....

Ash was dead....