“Did you know that you’re dead?” Sensei said in a perplexed tone of 
voice.
       “That’s how you greet your best student?” Jake answered. 
       “He’s right,” a girl sitting at a computer said looking back. Her name 
was Kira. She trained here at the same time Jake had, but by a different 
teacher. “Two of our spies reported that you were ‘taking a dirt nap’. I 
believe that’s how they put it. One seemed very upset.” 
       “Who were the spies?” Jake couldn’t remember anyone who would be upset 
by his death.
       “One’s name was Bonnie Birch. She’s a first cousin of Brendan Birch, 
and the spy that seemed a little broken up about… you know.” Kira was still 
reading over the screen. “And the other was—“
       “Bonnie works with you guys?” Jake was shocked.
       “Well yes, you didn’t think she was with Team Rocket did you?” Kira 
asked.
       “Actually I did.” Jake looked at his feet. “And what’s this about me 
bein’ dead?” 
       “There was an explosion at the dragon’s den in Blackthorn City. A 
Rocket told the police that they saw you in the cave just before it blew up.” 
Kira continued.
       “I see. Who was the other spy?” Jake was kind of curious. 
       “His name is Blue. He’s Professor Oak’s other grandson.” Kira replied.
       “I thought so.” Red chimed in. 
       “Tell me, do you know where my friend Kim is—“ Jake was interrupted by 
an alarm of some kind. 
       “This is strange. Sensei, one of our ninja’s have gone rogue.” Kira 
reported. 
       A younger man than Jake’s Sensei stepped out of the shadows. “Who?” 
       “Bonnie Birch.” Kira was reading the read out. “Apparently she’s blown 
her cover and is tearing the Titan IV apart.” 
       “Where is it?” Jake put his hand on Kira’s shoulder. 
       “Fifty miles north of the Arctic Circle.” Kira read.
       “You guys wait here. I’ll go check it out.” Jake said.
       Jake walked outside. The sky was full of ominous looking clouds. 
       =This looks bad.= Sundance decided.
       =What’s up?= Jake couldn’t seem to calm him down.
       =It’s Kim. She’s gone mad. That Airship? If we don’t get there 
there’ll be nothin’ left.= Sundance explained.
       Jake didn’t want to even think about what she and Bonnie were probably 
doing to Titan IV. 
       =N-Nikolai’s up there, Giovanni too. They want us to battle.= Sundance 
added.
       Jake never shied away from a fight before, and he wasn’t about to 
start.  “Damn!” He silently cursed as his brother came out of the cave. 
“Cable, I’ve gotta do something. I’ll be back soon!” He called out even 
though he figured on not coming back at all. 
       He released Sundance from his pokeball. “Sundance, find Kim!”
       
       Blackthorn City
       
       The firefighters brought Trent out of the cave. He was obviously no 
longer living. Ben reached into Trent’s pocket looking for anything he could 
find. When his hand ran across a smooth metal surface, Ben gasped. He gripped 
the object and another one like it and pulled it out. They were Jake and 
Red’s badges. “So Red was here too then.” 
       Jenny came up slowly behind him, as he turned around. Ben could see in 
her eyes that she had done some crying. “Ben, there’s a report of some 
trouble in the Arctic. A satellite picked up a flying fortress that wasn’t 
there before.”
       Ben reached into his pocket and gave her his own badge. “I’ve got 
business to take care of there.” Then he put his hand back into his pocket 
again and pulled out a pokeball. He released his Charizard. “Well, old friend 
it’s time we took a trip.”
       Charizard stretched his wings and lowered himself so Ben could climb 
on his back. 
       “Let’s go!” Ben shouted. 
       Charizard let out a roar and flew up high into the sky.
       
       Titan IV 
       
       “Sir, she’s tearing the ship apart!” A grunt shouted from the back of 
the command deck. “She’s gonna blow us right out of the sky.”
       Giovanni smiled to himself. “She has gone on a self-destructive path, 
which will only lead to her demise.” He thought to himself. 
       “Sir! I’m picking up a massive energy reading outside the hull of the 
ship. It’s moving toward the command deck.” 
       Giovanni turned to look out of the window, but wasn’t greeted with a 
pleasant surprise. The cowboy’s Lugia had managed to find its way to the 
Titan IV. “Get out there and take him down!” Giovanni ordered.
       
       =Okay, I think I got their attention.= Jake heard Sundance say. 
       =Good, keep ‘em occupied.= Jake replied as he opened the door which 
led downstairs, to the middle deck of the Titan. 
       Jake hadn’t even made it out of the entrance before a squad of grunts 
saw him. Jake released Rascal and shouted “Thunder!”
       
       Bonnie had seen Kim and her Manectric go down at the hands of Dez and 
his Scyther, but before she could react, Kim’s Ho-oh took Dez out in one 
strike. After that Kim wandered around the ship until she finally dropped to 
her knees. 
       Bonnie cradled the traumatized girl in her arms. Kim was bleeding 
badly, but Bonnie tried to stop it as much as she could. 
       After a while, an older girl wearing a white Rocket uniform, and white 
gloves, appeared in a flash of light. Her hair was raven colored, and almost 
reached down to the floor. “Oh no, Kim.” She said kneeling beside Kim. 
       “Master Sabrina, you know this girl?” Bonnie said with widening eyes.
       “Yes, Bonnie. I trained her, for the last three years. In those three 
years she became a close friend.” Sabrina explained. “But now isn’t the time 
for explanations; I have no doubt that Team Rocket knows of our true agenda.”
       “Master, I have to stay behind and tie up some loose ends.” Bonnie 
still wanted revenge. “I think Giovanni’s helicopter is still on the helipad 
on the roof. You can escape that way.”
       “Do you think vengeance is the answer?” Sabrina asked coldly. “Is that 
what Jake would want from you?” 
       “I know he would do it for me if he were in my position!” Bonnie 
snapped, but then regretted it. “I’m sorry Master, I was out of line.”
       “In the years that I have known him, I’ve learned that Jake was 
ruthless. He didn’t play by the rules, and had no value for his own life. He 
most likely took his enemies with him, when he died.” Sabrina said. “I know 
you loved him; I did too, but he wouldn’t want either one of us to do the 
things he’s done.”
       “Well, well, well. I knew that Bonnie was a traitor, but our very own 
Sabrina too.” A voice remarked from the shadows. Sabrina recognized it as 
Zed, one of Giovanni’s personal assassin’s. “I warned Giovanni, that if you 
turned coat on Team Rocket once, you’d do it again, and now you’re 
unprepared. I can eliminate all three of you now.”
       They all heard the thud of foot steps, slowly walking down the 
hallway. The hallway was dark due to a power outage to half of the ship, so 
their guest didn’t have a face. 
       “Show yourself!” Zed yelled at the darkness. “Or I’ll hurt your little 
friends!” He motioned to his Espeon, who lifted Sabrina off of the ground 
with Psychic, and suspended her there.
       A bolt of electricity leaped out and caught Zed in the left shoulder, 
spinning him around. The stranger stepped forward, until he wasn’t a stranger 
no more. It was Jake. He didn’t say a word, and the shadow from his hat 
cloaked his eyes, which made him seem very intimidating. 
       “YOU!” Zed screeched.
       The right corner of Jake’s mouth curled upward into a wicked smile. He 
still remained silent.
       “ESPEON, DESTROY HIM!” Zed screeched even louder.
       Before Espeon could attack, another bolt of electricity leaped out of 
the shadow, and hit Espeon in the left side. 
       A hand grabbed Zed, and slammed him onto the floor. “You’re under 
arrest, Zed.” 
       Sabrina was looking at two Jakes; the silent and intimidating one, and 
the loud and, a little more than slightly angry one. 
       Before Zed could reply, Jake punched him hard in the face and knocked 
him unconscious. Silently, Jake pulled out a pokeball and looked at his 
doppelganger. “Ditto, return.” 
       Rascal stepped out of the shadow and stood next to Jake. 
       Just as Jake opened his mouth, Sabrina stood up and grabbed Jake’s 
jacket. “Why did you stop coming to me for treatment, Jake?” She growled 
angrily. 
       “Get off my back, damn it! The treatment wasn’t working.” Jake snarled 
back.
       “Never mind that now. Kim and her Manectric are hurt.” Sabrina 
replied. 
       Jake knelt beside Kim, whom Bonnie was still cradling. “How, bad is 
it?” Jake asked Bonnie.
       “I don’t know. She was hit badly by a Scyther.” Bonnie said as Jake 
took off his jacket and covered Kim’s body with it. 
       “Can you fly a chopper?” Jake asked. 
       “Yes.” Bonnie whispered. 
       Jake picked Kim up and carried her up the stairs, to the roof. “Take 
her to Cerulean City. She’ll be safest there.” 
       “Okay.” Bonnie started the equipment as Jake placed Kim very 
carefully, in a seat in the back of the helicopter, and strapped her down.
       Jake turned and started back inside when Sabrina stopped him. “What do 
you plan to do?”
       “I’m gonna blow this bucket to hell and gone.” Jake said gesturing 
toward the ship.
       “Well, I’m staying with you.” Sabrina decided. 
       “Okay; stay close.” Jake said. 
       They both watched as Bonnie took off in the helicopter. 
       “We need to go to the engine room. If we blow up four of the ship’s 
six engines, the ship will go down into the Arctic Ocean.” Sabrina said.
       On their way down stairs, Jake found Kim’s Manectric. Jake knelt next 
to Manectric, and said, “Hey Static.” Jake took a look at the gash in 
Static’s side. “Hmmm, this is pretty bad.” Manectric was barely breathing. 
Jake picked Manectric up and began to carry him, Rascal and Sabrina followed 
close behind. 
       
       Mt Silver
       
       Cable, swung his leg up on Pidgeot’s back. “You comin’?” He called 
down to Red. 
       “Yeah, just hold on.” Red answered. He let his Aerodactyl out of its 
pokeball. Aerodactyl flapped its wings and then took hold of Red’s shoulders. 
“Aerodactyl, Fly!”
       Jake’s Sensei stood on a rock staring out at the sun. “I hope those 
two can bring Jake home safely.” He thought to himself. 
       
       Titan IV
       
       Jake and Sabrina found the infirmary. As Sabrina began to use her 
powers to heal Static, Jake searched for gauze and alcohol. “Okay, I’m gonna 
have to stitch the wound.” Jake announced to Sabrina.
       “Have you ever done anything like this before?” Sabrina asked.
       Jake pulled up his shirt, and showed her a U-shaped scar that looked 
like teeth marks. “When I was training in the mountains, I was attacked by a 
pack of Mightyena. One of them sunk his teeth in right there, and left that.” 
He pointed to the scar on his side. “The next morning, I cartelized the 
would, and stitched it, to make sure it didn’t open back up.”
       Jake sterilized a needle and began stitching. In twenty minutes the 
gash wasn’t sealed totally but it did stop the bleeding.
       “Well, now all there is left to do is destroy this damn ship.” Jake 
said as Sabrina put Static into a pokeball.