Chapter 7
			Prepare for trouble, and make it double


“Hey Misty!”
“Huh?
“MISTY WAKE UP!”
“Ahhhhhh!”
Misty bolted upright from her bed. Her eyes struggled desperately to focus on the blurred 
site that was in front of her.
“Duplica, are you going to do this every morning?”
“Not if you get up on time. Besides I have a good reason for it. Take a look outside.”
“Honestly Duplica, whoever made the lock for those doors obviously wasn’t thinking of 
you.”
Misty’s eyes were now fully open as she turned her head and looked out of the window.
“Yeah so? I don’t see anything.”
“Hellooo, the sun, do you see the sun?”
“Yes Duplica, and I also see the grass and the trees...” Misty spoke slowly, emphasizing 
the words grass and trees, as she made fun of Duplica’s stupid question.
“Didn’t Prof. Oak say something about Team Rocket yesterday and the sun?” Duplica 
began to get annoyed.
Misty looked at Duplica perplexed.
“What, did your night on the town consist of a lot of alcohol?”
For some reason this seemed to jog Misty’s memory as her eyes went wide.
“The sun was supposed to be blocked out!”
“Ya think?”
“Well? What happened?”
“How should I know? Prof. Oak telephoned Brock and told him to tell us not to worry 
about it and that the man in black and him were looking into it.” 
“But why...”
“I don’t know, but I for one am glad that we don’t have to deal with it. Who knows, 
maybe Team Rocket gave up and are going to back down.”
Misty gave Duplica a “Yeah right” look.
“Maybe not, anyway I don’t want to talk about world destruction anymore. Let’s talk 
about something more serious. What happened between you and the painter? I saw you 
come home late last night. Did you go for it? What’s he like? Is he as nice as he is hot? 
Did you guys get along? Are you going to go out on a date? Did you already go out on a 
date? What’s his name?”
Misty was wondering how her friend managed to say all that without running out of 
breath. 
“In answer to your questions, I approached him and we got along great. He is incredible. 
Yes. Yes. Yes. Sort of, and Ash Ketchum.”
Duplica listened intently, smiling excitedly at her friends answers until she got to the last 
answer. Duplica sat, mouth gaped in shock as Misty mentioned the 10 year old want-to-
be Pokemon Master she once knew. 
“Your joking right?”
Misty shook her head while smiling brightly.
“The painter that you had a thing for is Ash Ketchum?”
“Yup.”
Duplica erupted into a fit of laughter.
“What’s so funny?” Misty asked getting angry at her friends reaction.
Duplica tried desperately to control her laughing while speaking to Misty.
“Nothing *snort* it’s just *giggle* th-the only guy you have ever had a thing for was Ash 
Ketchum and *giggle* and now, now finally you thought you were over him and it turns 
out the new guy you have a thing for is Ash Ketchum again.”
Duplica finished her sentence and once again erupted into laughter.
“I don’t think that’s so funny,” Misty stated, aggravated by Duplica’s teasing.
Duplica’s giggles subsided. “But who would have guessed that that little scrawny kid 
would turn out to be so fine.” 
Misty smiled to herself thinking about all that had happened the night before..
“What are you smiling about?”
“Nothing it’s just, last night was incredible. Everything he said, everything he did, it was 
sooo *sigh* wow.”
Duplica rolled her eyes as Misty seemed to be engulfed in her own little dream world.
“There’s something I don’t understand. Why didn’t he tell you who he was earlier when 
we saw him painting the lab?” 
“Yeah, I wondered that myself and he said the sweetest thing when I asked him. He told 
me that it was because he didn’t want to get involved with me and then have to leave me. 
He said that the last time we saw each other, when he left me, it really hurt him. He didn’t 
want to go through that again.”
“Awww”
“Yeah, and I told him that no matter where he goes I will go with him, no matter what.”
“Well where is he planning on going?”
“I don’t know, he said he had some errand, or quest thing to go on for Prof. Oak and that 
he will have to leave in a couple of weeks.”
“So your going with him?”
“Uh huh. We will be traveling together again, just like when we were kids.”
“Except this time there will be a lot more tongue involved in the daily activities.”
“Yeah, there will be .....” Misty looked over at Duplica who was grinning knowingly.
Misty picked up a pillow and tossed it at Duplica’s head. Duplica dodged, letting the 
pillow flop against the door.
“Deny it!” Duplica stated while Misty giggled. 
“That....is none of your business.”
“Go Misty!”
Misty looked at the clock on the wall.
“Oh my God! It’s 11:00 already? I have to pick up my Pokemon from the Pokemon 
Center. I left them there last night when Ash was walking me back here.”
“Okay well I got to go too, I haven’t eaten breakfast yet and I’m starving. I’ll see you 
later?”
“Sure.”
Duplica turned to leave the room as she noticed Misty smiling to herself again.
“Misty?”
“Hmmm?”
“You really love him don’t you?”
Misty was a little taken aback by the question but she quickly recovered as she answered.
“Yeah, yeah I do.”
“And he loves you?”
“Uh huh.”
“........I hate you,” Duplica stated in a tone of fake jealousy as she exited the room.
“Thanks for the support Duplica,” Misty shouted as the door closed.
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Misty walked towards a small diner at the end of the block where Duplica was waiting 
for her. Duplica had called the Pokemon Center and left a message for Misty to meet her 
for lunch there. As Misty walked she was unaware of a mysterious figure who was 
positioned just to the left of where she was approaching.
“Where are they Pikachu?”
“Pika, pi” 
“Yes I’m sure this is where they told me to meet them. God, why do they always have to 
be late. I don’t know why I even put up with them.”
“Chupi chuka pi”
“Yeah I know, but do they have to say that motto every time, aren’t they aware that it’s 
already been burned into my brain.”
“Pika,.....chu pikachupi”
“Huh? Oh my God it’s Misty! Quick Pikachu, get into my backpack.”
“Pika”
‘Got to hide, got to hide.......wait...it’s now or never. I might as well get the process 
started. This is all for the best......I hate myself.’
Ash stepped out of the bushes that he had ducked behind to avoid Misty. 
Misty was about to walk inside the diner when she felt a hand grab her shoulder.
“Huh?”
Misty quickly turned around. 
“Well hello Ms. Yawa, it’s nice to see you again.” A tall figure dressed in black, a hood 
obscuring it’s face from view, said in a deep masculine voice.
“The man in black,” Misty said almost breathlessly.
“Uh, I was wondering if I may speak to you over here for a minute.” The man in black 
pointed to a clearing in the woods. “I’m trying to keep a low profile.”
“Okay!” Misty said a little too happily.
The man in black offered his arm to her as she gladly took it. They made their way to the 
clearing, which was blocked off from the busy streets by several trees and shrubs. You 
wouldn’t even notice it if you weren’t familiar with the area.
When they reached the clearing Misty unlinked her arm from his.
“S-so, uh, is there something important that you need to speak to me about?”
“Well actually, I was just wondering if you would like to got to dinner with me, that is, 
after this whole Team Rocket scheme is taken care of, of course.”
“Dinner? W-with me? You and me? Us? The man in black and Misty Yawa on a....”
“I believe the word you are looking for is date.”
Misty was speechless. She couldn’t believe what she was hearing. If she agreed to this 
she would be living out every woman’s fantasy. Imagine, me on a date with the man in 
black. He doesn’t have to ask me twice.’
“I’d lo...uh-”
‘Wait a minute. I can’t go on date with him. I’m with Ash now. What was I thinking, 
idiot. Oh well, so much for Duplica, Giselle, my sisters, and any female I ever met 
envying me for the rest of my life.’
“I’m.....I’m sorry, I-I can’t.”
‘She really loves me.....I am scum.’
“Of course you can. You can’t deny that there is something between us. Yesterday at 
Prof. Oaks lab, if I hadn’t been interrupted I was going to kiss you. Are you saying that if 
I did you would have pushed me away?”
“No but, it was different then. Now there is somebody else.” 
“Please Misty, I have never felt this way about anyone before. I have been alone for so 
long, but now, now I’ve found you.”
Tears filled Misty’s eyes. He spoke so passionately, his voice seemed to be full of pain 
for some reason. Misty felt extremely confused. She felt a incredible connection to the 
man in black. Almost like the connection she felt to Ash. 
‘Could I be in love?....No! I love Ash!’
“I love Ash.”
The man in black looked at the weeping girl before him.
The man in black inched his face closer to hers as he pulled her into him.
‘I-I love Ash...’
The man in black’s lips were now an inch away from Misty’s as he whispered two final 
words.
“Do you?”
The man in black closed the gap as his lips met with Misty’s.
‘Bastard.’
Misty didn’t move away as she felt the warm loving kiss send pleasure through her body. 
Seconds after the kiss began the man in black separated from Misty. More tears ran down 
her cheeks as she realized what she just did. 
“No,” Misty whispered to herself as she shook her head in disbelief.
“Apparently you don’t care for this Ash as much as you think you do.” The man in 
black’s tone held no emotion.
Misty placed a hand over her mouth. Her brain was desperately trying to figure out how 
she could love Ash and still have these similar feelings for the man in black.
Little did Misty no that her little emotional breakdown had not gone unnoticed by the 
man in black, as tears were streaming down his face too. Of course this site went unseen 
by Misty because of the hood that shielded his face from view.
“Would you like to rethink your answer from before?”
Misty looked at the man in black as she began to shake her head.
“No! I love Ash! I do, I know I do! I always did and I always will and...”
Misty couldn’t take it anymore as she turned and ran out of the clearing leaving the man 
in black behind.
The man in black watched her figure disappear from view.
“I love you too Misty, but unfortunately for both of us your suffering isn’t over yet.”
“Pika?” Pikachu popped his head out of Ash’s backpack where he was hiding.
“Yeah the coast is clear Pikachu, come on out.”
“Pika, pika pikachupi!”
“I had to do it Pikachu, I have no choice it’s either this or-”
“Pikachu pikapika chupi”
“I know, I am the lowest lowlife on the face of this planet. There is nothing or no one 
lower than me.”
“Prepare for trouble”
“And make it double”
“I spoke too soon,” Ash said sarcastically as two figures appeared on a tree branch to his 
right.
“Quiet twerp, your interrupting, where was I, oh yeah. To protect the world from 
devastation.”
“To unite all peoples within our nation.”
“To denounce the evils of truth and love.”
“To extend our reach to the stars above.”
“Jessie”
“James”
“Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light.”
“Surrender now or prepare to fight.”
“Persian, that’s right, perrrrr.”
“Are you done?” Ash asked, annoyed.
“You know we are,” Jessie stated as she jumped off the tree branch and landed next to 
Ash.
Persian followed Jessie shaking the branch with it’s weight as it jumped down.
James tried to remain steady on the branch but it was wobbling to much, which led to 
James wobbling and eventually falling on the floor, face first into the ground.
“Your late.”
“Better late then never,” James said as he got to his feet while spitting grass out of his 
mouth.
Ash bent down and began to pet the Persian that was circling his feet.
“Persian, Perrrsian we would have gotten here sooner if it wasn’t for Jessie stopping to 
buy some stupid hair-care products.”
“Hey! Now you listen to me you mangy cat, those hair-care products are important in 
maintaining my beautiful appearance. You think my hair is like this naturally?”
“That’s what I thought until today. I wouldn’t believe someone would do that to 
themselves on purpose.” 
Jessie turned toward James dangerously.
“Here we go again.”
Jessie lunged at James as a big cloud of smoke built up around them. 
Ash was ignoring the whole thing until the big smoke cloud that was Jessie beating the 
living pulp out of James, began to near him, Persian and Pikachu.
Ash and Pikachu quickly side stepped the cloud but Persian was not so lucky as it was 
dragged in. Various noises were heard every now and then including “Stop, your messing 
up my outfit, that will teach you to insult my appearance, and Persiannnnn, you’ll pay for 
that!”
Ash and Pikachu watched for a while until they got bored. That’s when Ash ordered 
Pikachu to use a Thundershock attack.
“Pikachu!”
After the threesome stopped crackling from electricity Ash approached them.
“Well?”
“Well what?” James asked confused.
“The sun remember? What happened? Didn’t you say they were going to do it today?”
“Yes,” Jessie said.
“Well what happened? Why hasn’t the sun been blocked out?” Ash was getting annoyed.
“Yeah you see, the thing is we are kinda out of the loop.” Jessie stated bluntly.
“The loop?”
“Yeah, we aren’t really involved with the whole world domination thing anymore. They 
said we were useless and that we should just...uh....what are we suppose to be doing now 
Jess? OOWWW! That hurt!”
Jessie put her foot back down as she suddenly became very nervous.
“Well we are suppose to be stealing more Pokemon, yeah, that’s it! Catching more 
Pokemon for the boss and building up his Pokemon army for world domination.”
“Yes exactly! That’s what we are doing...b-but we really aren’t stealing Pokemon 
because that would be wrong, we are really good guys now.”
“That’s right James. We are goody goodies just like you twerp. We wouldn’t try anything 
like setting you up or anything like that.”
“No never. We would never set you up.” Jessie and James did a cross their heart sign 
with their hands as Persian rolled his eyes at the stupidity of his partners.
Ash examined Jessie and James who were grinning like idiots.
“Your acting strange. And I mean more so than usual. Is there something wrong?” Ash 
questioned as Jessie and James shook their heads wildly.
“Wrong? Why would anything be wrong?” Jessie said still grinning.
Ash looked at the grinning Jessie and James again. Ash shrugged it off.
“I don’t know, maybe it’s my imagination. Forget it, anyway, so now your not in the 
loop. Then how did you find out about the sun thing.”
“Oh that, well you see we overheard two rockets talking about it. Executive rockets, 
really important in the organization. We figured they were pretty reliable sources so we 
reported the news back to you.”
“Pretty reliable sources huh? That’s funny, I thought the same thing about you three. 
Never mind, thanks for your help anyway. Looks like I’m going to have to take this into 
my own hands. Well, I got to go, I’ll call you if I need anything. Stay out of trouble. 
Come on Pikachu.”
“Pikachu.”
Ash disappeared from the clearing with Pikachu in tow leaving Jessie, James, and Persian 
behind.
Jessie and James both let out sighs of relief.
“Youz idiots” Persian jumped up and scratched the rockets faces.
“Youz guyz almost blew our cover.”
“We did not!” James stated weakly, recovering from Persians attack.
“Oh yeah? We’re really good guys, we aren’t trying to set you up or anything.” Persian 
imitated Jessie.
“He didn’t catch on did he?”
“Yeah but youz got lucky.”
“Jess? Do you feel bad,....you know, about what we are doing. He has saved our lives, a 
lot.”
“We can’t let that get to us James, we are the bad guys, first and foremost we will always 
be apart of Team Rocket.”
“That’s right Jessie and don’t you ever forget it.” A blond woman stepped out of a bush 
where she was hiding. A blue-haired man stepped out of a neighboring bush right after 
her.
“Yeah, you wimps had no choice. It was either this or,...well you know. Personally I 
would have liked to have dealt out the punishment myself.”
Jessie and James glared at Butch and Cassidy who were grinning evilly at them.
“Now Butch, the Boss said he was going to spare their lives if they ratted out the man in 
black. But maybe after we get rid of the man in black the boss will let us play with them 
for a while,” Cassidy stated evilly while eyeing Jessie and James.
“What makes you even think you could take him out?” Jessie questioned angrily.
“Well, for one we know where he is, and two we know who he is. We are already have an 
advantage, and you better believe we are going to use it against him. By the time we are 
done with him he will be giving himself up.”
“Cass, the boss just beeped us, we got to go.”
“All right, see you later losers.”
Butch pressed a trigger on his belt which signaled a motorcycle that came speeding up to 
the duo. They both put on black helmets with Rs on them, got on the motorcycle and 
drove off.
“Poor twerp, he doesn’t deserve this.” Jessie stated sadly.
“I thought that you didn’t feel bad about what we are doing?”
“I don’t it’s just...I rather have him come out on top than those two jerks.”
“Don’t worry Jess, he will. If there is anybody who can take care of himself it’s the twerp 
and his Pikachu. He is the luckiest person I have ever met in my life. He’ll get through 
this.”
“Yeah well he is going to need a whole lot of luck if they are going to do what I think 
they are going to do to him Persian per.”