Ash was shocked to read the letter. He read it again and threw it away. It wasn’t a letter, it was a ransom.

Dear Twerp {Jessie, let me write it!} {No James, let go of the pen!},

We have your…{ahem} so-called girlfriends and placed them on Fire, Lightning, and Ice Island. We each have an operative on each island and persuaded Moltres, Articuno, and Zapdos to work for us! {James, don’t say that! You blew our cover!} {Shut up, youse two or I’ll take care of both of youse!} {WOBBUFFET!} {Get back in your ball!} Now, come up with a sum of 50,000 and your Pikachu and we’ll free your {ahem} girlfriends.

Yours hated, Team Rocket

PS- COME ALONE!

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” said a discouraged Ash. “Misty, May, Melody!”

People at the restaurant looked at Ash with sympathy. They felt what he felt. Pain. Lots of pain in a young man’s heart. He never wanted to live until this day. Well, he did.

“Misty, May, Melody, you WILL be avenged! Charizard, come out, and Fly!” Ash yelled, throwing out Charizard’s Pokeball. He knew what he was doing. He was going to rescue them, until he came to an abrupt halt.

“Ash?” said another female’s voice.

“Ditto!” said a Pokemon.

“Could it be?” Ash muttered under breath. He turned to see another familiar face. “Duplica!” he shouted.

Duplica, a Ditto trainer, was one of Ash’s long time rivals and good friends. She looked different. Much prettier than the last time they met in Johto.

“So, they were caught, huh?” asked Duplica.

“Yeah,” replied a brokenhearted Ash.

“Why don’t we talk about it on a stroll around the Shamuti Park?”

“Okay, but make it quick, I have to save them!”

‘He’s so cute! I wish I were kidnapped and my Prince Charming saved me!’ Duplica thought.

“Duplica? Are you there?” asked a worried Ash, waving his hand in front of her face.

“Sure!” she replied sweetly.

“We have to save the others!”

“You are absolutely right, sweetums!” said Duplica.

Ash halted. “What did you just say?”

“Sweetums! I like you, Ashy-boy!”

“Oh, no. Not this again. Duplica, we have to save Misty, May, and Melody! Come on, let’s go! Charizard, come out and fly to Lightning Island!”

Charizard emerged from its Pokeball and picked up Ash and Duplica, its two passengers, onboard. They flew, overlooking Shamuti. They don’t know what the next adventure and unexpected allies and enemies they are going to come across on.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Lightning Island ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

“ZAPDOS! [HALT!] ZAP-DOS-ZAPZAP-DOSDOSZAP! [WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE INTRUDERS!?]

“Nothing, just to save a girlfriend of mine!” replied Ash, returning Charizard.

“You’ll never get away!” said James, strangling the girl with a rope.

“HELP! HELP ME!” shouted the familiar, yet hard to notice the face voice. It was May.

“May, I’m here to save you!” Ash and Duplica shouted back in unison.

“You’ll never leave! HAHAHA!” shouted James evilly.

May kicked him in the head—hard. James started to wail and whine, red all over his face from embarrassment and from being beaten senselessly.

“ZAPDOS ZAPZAP DOS ZAPDOS ZAPZAP! [YOU LITTLE TWERPS! OFF MY PROPERTY!]”

“May, we need to get out of here!”

“No, Ash. I’m not giving up without a fight!”

“Same here!” joined Duplica.

“BUTT OUT!” yelled Ash.

‘I’m your love, you are not supposed to butt me out,’ Duplica thought.

“Torchic, come on out!”

“Charizard!”

“Ditto, of course!”

The three Pokemon were filled with rage, even Torchic. They knew that May was kidnapped and was taken to Lightning Island. They were going to get back at the three birds and three TR operatives.

“That’s it! Charizard, Dragon Rage! FULL BLAST!”

Charizard was furious and created a violet-red orb of Dragon-like energy and threw it directly at Zapdos. Even a Lugia couldn’t stand a hit, even with its 340 Sp. Def count. Zapdos tried to fly away, but the blast just connected with its wings and Zapdos fell, uttering a cry of pain.

“Ditto, Transform! We’ll need Zapdos’s power later!”

Ditto nodded and transformed into a completely perfect Zapdos. It was fierce. Angry. Mad. It looked as if it were going to go on a rampage.

“Torchic, finish it off with Ember!”

Torchic sent out tens of flame balls aimed at Zapdos. It was burned fortunately. Now, whenever it gets the chance to fly, it will feel that burn.

“Charizard, Fly to Fire Island! May, get on. Duplica, go left! I’ll go right. Find Moltres, defeat it!” ordered Ash as a drill sergeant at a boot camp.

“Sir, yes, sir!” said Duplica. ‘Treating me like a slave! I’ll show him! I’ll go to Fire Island and actually help Jessie and James. That’s what I was paid by the author for,’ Duplica thought.

The author, thinking, winked at Duplica, saying, “You got the 15 G’s, now show me how it’s done!”

“Ditto, Fly to Fire Island, then transform into Moltres! Let’s go fool us some Ash Ketchum!”

~*~*~*~*~*~Back at Lightning Island~*~*~*~*~*~

“They’re heading your way, Jess. You and Duplica know what to do!” said James by walkie-talkie.

“You got it!” replied Jessie.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Fire Island~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

“Phase One, complete! Twerp sighted. Coming at 600 miles, 500, 400, 300, 200, 100, 50, 25, 12, 5, 2, 1, he’s here! Moltres, do what I say!” Jessie said, hitting a button on some sort of mechanism.

~*~*~*~*~*~Back at the camp~*~*~*~*~*~

“Wonder how they’re doin’?” wondered Gary, Richie, Brock, Max, and Liza.

“Toge-priiiiiii!” said Togepi, that egg-shaped Pokemon baby.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Fire Island~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

“Charizard, Moltres has been spotted. Fire three Dragon Rage attack orbs! One left, one right, and one in the middle, okay?” Ash asked.

“ROAR! [All right!]” Charizard replied, firing as told, then noticing the other Moltres. Ash noticed this too.

“All right, fire six of them, three on each one, just as planned!” Ash said.

“He’s delusional,” May said to herself.

Ash, still in that tux of his, kept getting it dirtier and dirtier. ‘No way is this going to impress the girls, but still, it has to be done!’ Ash thought, worried about being rejected.

“Ditto!” said Ditto.

“It’s a fake! Duplica tricked us by joining the three stooges, Jessie, James, and Meowth.”

“Moltres, Sky Attack.”

“Oh, great…Melody!” Ash yelled, noticing Melody directly underneath Moltres, maybe the target for its attack, which, unfortunately for Ash, will get hurt, in spirit, not in physical damage.

“Melody, I’m here to save you!”

“Ash…I’m sorry…but I must leave you…you and this world…” Melody was saying this because she was the target.

“NO! Charizard, fight back with Fly! Then swoop down, grab Melody, and we can head for Ice Island!”

It was a gimmick. It was actually a lure to make Ash come underneath Moltres. He was the victim, not Melody.

“MOLTREEEEEEEEEES! [AHHHHHH!]”

“ASH! NO!”

But it was too late. Ash had been struck by the Sky Attack and was severely injured.

“Pika-pi! [Ash!]”

Ash was hit, burned, paralyzed, and felt sick. Would this be the end?

Melody started to cry and noticed that she still had her shell instrument. She sang the song of Lugia and in an instant, Lugia appeared out of a water cyclone.

“It’s the girlfriend of the chosen one! What may I help you with?” asked Lugia.

“Can you cure Ash? He’s very injured and very hurt in spirit.”

“I’m sorry, but that’s Celebi’s job.”

“Okay…can you get Celebi for me?”

“I sure will,” replied Lugia.

“Thanks.”

Lugia dived back into the water, and swam at full speeds towards the Ilex Forest. It went to the shrine and saw Celebi frolicking around, playing with the flowers. It noticed Lugia and asked, “Bi-Cel-bi [Luiga, what’s wrong]?”

“It’s…the chosen one, Ash…”

“BI? [WHAT?]”

“Let’s go…I’ll explain on the way…”

“BIBIBIBI! [OKAY, LUGIA!]”

The two arrived at Fire Island, and Celebi chanted something and touched Ash with one flick of a finger. Ash was then considered okay.

“BIBI! [BYE!]”

“Good-bye, Celebi, and thanks,” replied Ash.

“The Pidgey is out, leave the stool.”

“Wa’?” asked a dumb Meowth on walkie-talkie.

“Just take care of the twerp!” yelled Jessie.

“You got it!” yelled Meowth.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Ice Island~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

“Let me go!” yelled Misty all tied up.

“Yeah, right,” replied Meowth.

“Meowth, it’s three against one!” yelled Ash.

“Actually, you mean two on two!”

“Yeah, Ash! I don’t need you! I have a boyfriend! I did this so I can get paid for the Imitehouse! You don’t need people to love you! You don’t deserve them!”

“Ash, help!” screamed Misty. ‘Wait, he saved those two first and from Lightning-Ice Island order! I’m not loved…’ thought Misty, crying.

Ash was shocked. He then cleared up and shouted, flying on Charizard, “THAT’S WHAT YOU KNOW!” And also, thanks to Celebi, his tux is now looking brand spanking new.

He ordered Charizard to execute a Flamethrower attack on Articuno and then, Articuno was very hurt.

“All right, you win!” yelled Meowth.

Ash got the three girls back and then, was completely yelled at. Arguments about why he picked people earlier than others.

“How dare you!” yelled Misty.

“I didn’t…”

She, Melody, and May all slapped Ash—hard. He was red on both cheeks, then he lay on the cold, watery mountain in his new tuxedo. He started singing a song [which I thought of] called “Blamed”.

I don’t know what’s happening to me. I’m getting all the blame for things I didn’t do------ Can anybody tell me just what I did wrong? I’m all alone and I’m so confused. I don’t know what everyone wants me to be, I only know just how to be me. Once I was the guy of the hour They think I’m a coward An absolute zero I’m nobody’s hero. An absolute zero I’m nobody’s hero. I’m nobody’s hero hero hero hero.

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