Pokémon Hostage!

The episode starts with Jessie and Meowth just outside of the entrance of Viridian City. Jessie looks at the city in amazement. "Wow, Viridian City. It's more beautiful up close."

"You're talking like you've never been in a city before," Meowth said.

"My mom is just overprotective, okay?" Jessie replied.

The narrator starts recapping from the previous episode. "Jessie has started her Pokémon journey and she has already reached Viridian City alongside Meowth and the two Pokémon she caught along the way!" It shows Elekid. "Elekid!" Elekid says its cry after being called. "Ele!" Now it shows Pidgey "And Pidgey!" Pidgey also says its cry after being called on. "Pidgey!" The narrator continues talking. "What else is in store for Jessie on her Pokémon journey? Let's find out now!"

The title screen shows.

"Pokémon Hostage!"

"Well, shall we head into the city?" Jessie asked.

Meowth nods. "I do need a break after walking that route."

Jessie was about to step into the city until someone prevented her by grabbing the back collar of her shirt. "I DON'T THINK SO!"

Jessie recognizes the feminine voice. "Wait, I heard that voice before." She turns around and immediately gulps upon seeing the blonde purple-eyed girl from earlier holding her, now burnt, bicycle with a mad expression. "O-oh, it's you." Jessie nervously chuckles.

"Yeah umm… I'm just going to hide over there until you both are done." Meowth hides behind the Viridian City entrance sign.

The blonde girl wasted no time yelling at Jessie. "YOU BETTER HAVE A GOOD EXPLANATION ON WHY MY BIKE IS BURNT TO A CRISP, YOU THIEVING BITCH!"

"Now there's no need for that kind of language." Jessie once more chuckles from nervousness. "So, I was trying to catch a Pokémon and it accidentally electrocuted your bike after I dived off to save myself from electrocution." Domino starts heavily breathing from her nose in anger as Jessie takes a step back. "Look, before you yell at me again, it was me basically getting electrocuted and almost dying, or your bike and I care about my life after all."

Domino takes a deep breath before asking Jessie a question. "So… where are you going while in Viridian City?"

"Oh, um, I don't know, I haven't thought of that." Jessie scratches her head.

"Well guess what, I know where you're going to be heading now and that's the police station so I can get legal action for my bike!" Domino forcefully grabs Jessie's arm with her free hand and starts forcefully pulling her into Viridian City.

Jessie starts yelling for the blonde girl to let go. "HEY! STOP THAT! COME ON!"

Meowth comes out from hiding. "Don't forget about me!" He runs out from the entrance sign to follow them.

The scene cuts to an alley in Viridian City, two people start slowly peeking behind the two buildings, one is a female with golden hair, and the other one is a male with green hair, both have black uniforms with a big red letter R on them, like the previous criminal that tried to steal Meowth. "Have you found it yet?" The golden-haired criminal asked their partner in crime.

"No!" The green-haired criminal replied. "This is so stupid, we had the rare little spark plug for the boss in our hands and it escaped!"

The golden-haired criminal groans. "I knew we shouldn't have left that spark plug untended with him!"

A third male criminal person, with brown hair and a red letter R uniform, peeks out. He was short compared to his two partners in crime. "Who, me?"

"Yes, you, Mondo!" The golden-haired criminal replied. "You let it escape!"

"Hey! I just misjudged how fast that Pokémon was, okay?" Mondo replies, crossing his arms. "Give me a break."

The green-haired criminal bats his partner-in-crime, Mondo, on the head. "You better hope that spark plug Pokémon is still here in the city or this is, one hundred percent, your fault!"

"OW!" Mondo starts rubbing his head. "Don't hit my head, Biff!"

The green-haired person screams his name out in frustration because Mondo got it wrong. "THE NAME IS BUTCH AND YOU KNOW IT!"

Now the golden-haired criminal bats Butch on the head. "How about you shut up and don't give away our cover? Okay, let's think logically here. If that spark plug Pokémon is still here, where would it be?"

"Maybe someone eventually found it and took it to the Pokémon Center, Cassidy?" Mondo yet, revealing the golden-haired criminal's name.

"That could be the case. Alright, to the Viridian City Pokémon Center, we go!" Cassidy points, out as she and her two partners-in-crime roll out together.

The scene cuts to the streets of Viridian City, where the blonde girl is still dragging Jessie to the police station as Meowth is tagging along. "So… what's your name?" Jessie awkwardly asks.

The blonde girl finally reveals her name. "You can call me Domino, that's it."

Meowth tries to hold in his laugh. "No way! Your name is 'Domino' like the small oblong piece with the black dots? Hilarious!"

Domino glares directly at Meowth before looking at Jessie. "I don't know how your Meowth is talking right now, but I would keep its mouth shut if I were you."

"R-right, yeah!" Jessie looks at her Meowth with a serious expression. "Meowth, this isn't the time to crack jokes!"

Meowth rolls his eyes in response. "Whatever."

After a few seconds of Domino dragging Jessie to the Viridian City Police Station and Meowth coming along, they finally arrived at the said police station. "Here we are!" Domino stated.

Jessie starts sweating. "Come on, Domino. We don't need the police to get involved here. Let's talk things out, okay?"

"You're not pulling that crap on me! I'm getting legal action for my bike that you destroyed, whether you like it or not!" Domino drags Jessie into the police station.

Meowth sighs. "Starting her journey and she is already facing trouble with the police." He eventually follows in.

The scale cuts to the three criminals arriving at the outside entrance of the Viridian City Pokémon Center. "We're here!" Cassidy exclaimed. "Alright, do we have everything?"

Butch looks at his gun. "Guns, check! Mondo, do you have the bomb for the backup plan?"

Mondo pulls out a bomb in his pockets. "Bomb, check! You two take the front entrance while I sneakily set this bomb where no one knows where it is!" He leaves the area to set the bomb.

"Ready, Buffard?" Cassidy says, getting Butch's name wrong while clicking her gun.

Butch clicks his gun with an annoyed expression. "It's Butch…"

"Whatever, let's just do this!" Cassidy rushes into the Pokémon Center with Butch following her and the two start aiming their guns at the, now, hostages. "Everyone, get on the ground, now!" She demanded.

The hostages in the Pokémon Center all listen, immediately getting on the ground and not moving a muscle.

"If anyone tries to deny our orders, let's just say that your day is going to be even worse." Butch clicks his gun and smirks.

"Butch, you make sure the hostages don't escape and I'll proceed with the plan!" Cassidy ordered, she walked towards the counter and looked down to see a woman with pink hair, wearing a nurse outfit. "Not you, Nurse Joy! Stand up, now!"

Nurse Joy slowly stands up with her hands up as well. She starts stuttering from fear. "Wh-what do you want? S-Surely you're not here to heal your Pokémon?"

Cassidy aims her gun at Nurse Joy's head. "Don't joke around with me. You're going to answer some questions and you better not lie to me."

The scene cuts to the police station where Jessie, Domino, and Meowth are, walking up to the counter. There's a policewoman there with blue hair and red lipstick. "Hello ladies, how can I help you?"

"Yes, Officer Jenny, this woman here destroyed my bike! I have the evidence here!" Domino shows her burnt bike, which she has been carrying, to Officer Jenny.

Officer Jenny observes the bike before looking at Jessie. "Is this true, ma'am?"

Jessie slowly nods. "Y-yes, am I in trouble? Or worse, going to prison?!" Her heart starts pounding with some fear.

Before Officer Jenny was about to answer Jessie's question, a different police officer ran up to Officer Jenny. "JENNY! JENNY!"

"What is it, officer? I'm kinda busy here." Officer Jenny replied.

The police officer starts explaining. "It's the Pokémon Center! I was looking at the cameras and it looks like the criminals from the wanted poster and they have guns and completely made the area a hostage situation!"

Officer Jenny's eyes shot wide open before looking at Jessie and Domino. "Sorry, but I'm going to have to go. We will talk about this later." She sprints out of the station, hops onto her motorcycle, and drives off.

As the other police officer sprints out of the station, Jessie sees a wanted poster on a bulletin board and walks closer to it to get a closer look. The wanted poster displays three criminals, one with golden hair, green hair, and brown hair with their faces covered in shadows. "Seems like these are the criminals currently at the Pokémon Center."

Domino closes her eyes and crosses her arms. "Whatever, at least I'm here and not there!"

Elekid breaks out of its Poké Ball, looking at the wanted poster. "Ele…"

"Elekid? What are you doing outside of your Poké Ball?" Jessie asked.

Elekid didn't respond, instead, the Pokémon ran out of the building after a glance at the wanted poster.

"ELEKID, COME BACK!" Jessie sprints off after it with Meowth following behind.

Domino looks back, seeing the three sprint off, and groans. "Dammit…" She soon also sprints off, following them.

The scene cuts back to the Pokémon Center with Cassidy talking to Nurse Joy while aiming a gun at her. "I told you already, no trainer with some spark plug Pokémon has come here."

Cassidy scoffs. "You better start telling the truth, because if you don't, this place is going to explode by a bomb we planted."

"You planted a bomb?!" Nurse Joys says in shock.

The crowd gasps as Mondo enters the Pokémon Center with a chuckle. "You better believe it! And the time is ticking, nurse."

"I am telling the truth, I promise!" Nurse Joy responded.

Cassidy sighs, slowly lowering her gun before aiming it back to Nurse Joy's head. "Fine, but we're not leaving empty-handed. Round up all the Poké Balls you got back there in a sack and hand it to us!"

"Are you serious, Cassidy? You're gonna just trust her back there to not escape by an exit back door?" Butch questioned.

"Oh, I can trust her not to escape, alright." Cassidy stares directly at Nurse Joy. "Since you're a nurse and you care about lives, If you're not back here in a few minutes, we're gonna start killing people. Got it?"

"Got it! I'll be back with a sack of Poké Balls!" Nurse Joy sprints down to the hallway.

Mondo notices red and blue lights flashing in the distance. "Guys, we got cops coming!"

"They're not coming in. Take one step in here and the hostages get it!" Butch clicks his gun, aiming it at each hostage as they coward in fear.

It cuts outside to Jessie arriving from sprinting after her Elekid with Meowth and Domino following her. Officer Jenny notices them. "What are you kids doing here?! This is a dangerous place, you both should be back at the station!"

"I'm sorry Officer but my Elekid ran off and led us here!" Jessie looks at her Elekid. "Elekid, why did you sprint off here?"

Elekid looks back at its trainer and responds. "Ele! Ele! Ele!"

Meowth translates. "Elekid said it's something about those three criminals inside. They want to stop the three criminals and help the hostages!"

Officer Jenny starts thinking. "Well, I can't go in there when those three have guns pointed at those hostages. Can I trust you to help?"

"I'll take the back door, there has to be one for fire emergency reasons why?" Domino starts sneaking into the back of the Pokémon Center.

"Are you guys going with her?" Officer Jenny asked Jessie and her Pokémon.

"We have a different plan, we're going to confront those criminals!" Jessie answered.

"Um excuse me, what's with this 'we' business? I didn't agree to this!" Meowth protested. "I should've gone with that Domino girl."

"Look Meowth, Elekid brought us here because of something about those criminals inside. We got to confront them, but we're going to surprise them!" Jessie says.

"Surprise them?" Meowth questioned.

The scene cuts to Domino arriving at the back door of the center and immediately knocking constantly. "Hello?! Is anyone there?!"

Inside, Nurse Joy was ready to stuff Poké Balls in the sack for the three criminals until she heard Domino's knocking outside. "Huh?" She arrives at the back door, unlocking, and opening it, seeing Domino. "Miss, what are you doing here?! This center is currently being held hostage!"

"I know Nurse Joy! I want to help you with whatever I can to prevent those thieves from getting what they want!" Domino replied with a courageous expression.

Nurse Joy was about to refuse the help until she got an idea. "Okay, maybe you can help me with something. Do you know how to work a computer?"

Domino nods in agreement. "I'm not an idiot, unlike some people."

Nurse Joy sighs in relief. "Thank goodness! Follow me!"

Domino follows Nurse Joy and the nurse leads her to the room where all the Poké Balls containing the trainer's injured Pokémon are stored. "Whoa! Is this where all the sick and weak Pokémon are stored?" She asked.

Nurse Joy nods. "Yes, and I need your help. Do you see that computer?" She points at the computer. "I need you to transfer all the Pokémon to the nearest Pokémon Center from here which is in Pewter City."

"Got it!" Domino agreed. "What about those criminals out front?"

"I'm going to give them empty Poké Balls, they have no Pokémon inside." Nurse Joy answered. "Go transport the Pokémon!"

Domino rushes to the computer and begins to work her magic as a claw starts activating, moving Poké Balls to the conveyor belt, once the Poké Balls reach the end, they glow white and get transported to Pewter City. Meanwhile, Nurse Joy starts grabbing all the Poké Balls that contain no Pokémon and starts putting them in the bag.

As Domino continues typing on the computer, she starts talking inside of her thoughts. "I sure hope that Jessie girl is doing something to help."

The scene cuts to the roof of the Pokémon Center, Pidgey is holding in some rope with its mouth as Meowth, Elekid, then Jessie are revealed to be climbing the rope and soon the three successfully climb it and make it to the roof. "Excellent job holding onto the rope, Pidgey!" Jessie complimented with a smile.

"Pidgey!" Pidgey happily cheers in response.

"So what's the plan, Jess?" Meowth asked.

"Easy, we just need to distract those three criminals enough for Domino to do her thing in the back. We can get in with a surprise by going through that sunroof there." Jessie points at the sunroof inside of a symbol shaped like the letter P. "With all four of us, I think we can break it. Are you ready guys?"

Elekid, Pidgey, and Meowth all shouted in agreement. "Ele!" "Pidgey!" "I'm game!"

The scene cuts back inside the Pokémon Center where Team Rocket and the hostages are with Cassidy waiting patiently at the counter. "Seriously, where is that woman or I will start shooting people!" She threatened.

The hostages start whimpering and cowering in fear after Cassidy's threat and some start hugging each other as well.

"Cassidy, I'm bored, can we just shoot one of them for entertainment?" Butch starts aiming his gun at some hostages, and they whimper even louder as he laughs. "This is fun!"

"Butch, stop that!" Cassidy ordered. "We're villains but not cruel villains! We will only shoot if it's necessary!"

"Well, that sucks!" Butch growls in annoyance.

"Just stick with the plan, airhead, and keep your hand off the trigger," Mondo says.

Nurse Joy comes back to the counter with a sack full of Poké Balls, oblivious to Team Rocket that every single one of them doesn't contain a Pokémon. "Here!" Nurse Joy throws the sack to Team Rocket. "Now go away and leave the people alone!"

Cassidy picks up the sack. "Come on y'all, let's get out of here!"

As Team Rocket turns around to leave, the sunroof on the ceiling breaks, stopping them dead in their tracks. "What the hell?!" Butch questions in shock.

The sound of a cough is heard as the dust fades away and Jessie is revealed with her Meowth, Elekid, and Pidgey.

Jessie was coughing from the dust but she stopped and looked at the criminals, pointing at them. "Stop, you criminals! You're not going anywhere with those Pokémon!"

Cassidy sees that Elekid is right next to Jessie. "Hey, Butch look! It's the rare Pokémon that got away from us!"

"Goodness, you're right!" Butch says in delight.

"It's our lucky day guys, we just need to get through a stupid defenseless little girl!" Mondo laughs.

"'Stupid?!' 'Defenseless?!' I am not stupid and I have these three Pokémon to defend me!" Jessie looks at her Elekid. "Are these the criminals that were trying to take you earlier?"

Elekid nods in response. "Ele!"

Jessie grits her teeth at the three criminals. "You three make me sick!"

Cassidy looks at Butch with a grin. "Shall we give this girl our introduction?"

Butch grins back with a nod. "Let's do it?"

Cassidy and Butch start saying their motto to Jessie. "To infect the world with devastation!" "To brighten all people within every nation!" "To denounce the goodness of truth and love!" "To extend our wrath to the stars above!" "Cassidy!" "Butch!" "We're Team Rocket, circling Earth all day and night!" "Surrender to us now or you will surely lose the fight!" Mondo appears in front of the two. "I'm Mondo, alright!"

Jessie grits her teeth. "So you're Team Rocket! That's what you people are called!"

Meowth shows his sharp claws directly to the criminals to threaten them. "You guys don't scare me!"

The hostages and also Team Rocket gasp in shock from hearing a talking Meowth. "Did that Meowth just talk?!" "I think I heard it too!" "That Meowth is special!"

Meowth realizes what he accidentally did and jokingly tries to throw them off. "Umm… meow?"

Cassidy gets annoyed at the hostages talking and aims her gun at them. "Shut up! All of you!"

"Cassidy, that girl's Meowth just talk!" Butch pointed out.

"I'd have never seen a Pokémon that can speak the human language!" Mondo added.

Cassidy grins. "Which means that Pokémon is special and valuable for Team Rocket. This girl has the jackpot!" She looks at Jessie. "I'll tell you what, girl. Hand over your spark plug and the talking Meowth and we will simply leave, just like that! You can even keep your worthless Pidgey."

Jessie steps in front of her three Pokémon. "I'm not handing over anything to you three! And don't you dare talk about my Pidgey like that! All of my Pokémon are strong and not worthless!"

"Then I guess we have to take them by force!" Butch throws a Poké Ball in the air. "Mankey, destroy her!"

Mankey materializes. "Mankey!"

Jessie looks at her Pidgey. "Alright Pidgey, I choose you!"

"Pidgey!" Pidgey walks in front to battle against Mankey.

Butch commands the first move. "Mankey, use Leer, show Pidgey how threatening you are!"

Mankey starts glaring directly at Pidgey, scaring the bird Pokémon a little as Pidgey's defense gets lowered.

"Pidgey don't be scared! Use Quick Attack!" Jessie commanded.

"Pidgey!" Pidgey disappears and reappears, tackling Mankey.

Butch gets frustrated. "Don't just get taken down by some dumb worthless bird! Use Scratch!"

"Mankey!" Mankey scratches Pidgey, flinging the tiny bird Pokémon to the wall.

"PIDGEY, NO!" Jessie shouted, worrying about her Pokémon. "Come on, you gotta get up!"

Cassidy and Mondo both pull out Poké Balls, sending out their Pokémon. "Rattata, go get them!" "Cubone, you go this!"

Rattata and Cubone both materialize, saying their cries. "Rattata!" "Cubone!" Then all of Team Rocket's are together, staring down Meowth and Elekid.

"This is fun! The girl thinks she can stand up against us when her Pokémon are weak!" Butch laughs.

As Butch was talking, right behind him is Pidgey being knocked out against the wall, but the tiny bird Pokémon all of a sudden starts slowly glowing white.

"You shouldn't have confronted Team Rocket, now that you're completely toast!" Mondo added with a laugh of his own.

While Mondo was talking, Pidgey started changing while glowing, becoming bigger, and growing feathers on its head.

"Alright boys, let's finish her off while we have the advantage!" Cassidy declared.

"PIDGEOTTO!" Pidgey cried out. The bird Pokémon immediately flew right in front of Jessie to defend her, however, Pidgey was different; the bird Pokémon was bigger, it had a crest of pinkish-red feathers, and its tail had alternating red and yellow feathers.

The hostages all gasp at the sight of Pidgeotto. "No way!" "Her Pidgey evolved!" "This is incredible!"

"P-Pidgey?!" Jessie immediately pulls out her Pokédex from shock.

"Pidgeotto, the bird Pokémon. Evolved form of Pidgey. Normal and flying type. Very Protective of its sprawling territorial area, this Pokémon will fiercely peck at any intruder."

Butch growls. "Cute, her Pidgey evolved, but it won't make a difference!"

"My… Pidgey evolved?" Jessie questioned in disbelief.

Butch commands his move. "Mankey, use Karate Chop!"

"Mankey!" Mankey's hand glows white and starts running to Pidgeotto.

"Jessie, I'm glad you discovered that Pokémon can evolve, but you're in the middle of saving a Pokémon Center from criminals!" Meowth reminded her.

Jessie shakes her head to get back to the task at hand. "Right! Pidgeotto, use Gust!"

"Pidgeotto!" Pidgeotto flaps its wings fast directly at Mankey.

Mankey gets flown back and then hits a fall, slowly falling and fainting. "Mankey…"

Butch growls in defeat. "Mankey, return!" He recalls Mankey back in its Poké Ball.

"Way to go, Butch!" Cassidy said with an annoyed expression.

"All of a sudden that bird is stronger than before!" Butch responded.

"I guess it's my turn. Rattata, use Tackle!" Cassidy commanded.

"Rattata!" Rattata starts dashing towards Pidgeotto.

"I don't think so! Elekid, protect Pidgeotto with your Thunder Punch!" Jessie countered.

Rattata gets an electrocuted punch right in the face by Elekid out of nowhere, before the mouse Pokémon could attack Pidgeotto with a tackle. "RATTATA!" Rattata drops to the ground and faints.

Elekid blows on their fist with a satisfied smile. "Ele!"

"How strong is that Elekid?!" Butch questioned in disbelief.

Cassidy growls. "Now you can see why we want that spark plug so bad?! Rattata, return!" She recalls Rattata back in its Poké Ball.

"Do I have to do all the work for you idiots?" Mondo asked, rhetorically before looking at Cubone. "Ready, Cubone?"

Cubone nods. "Cubone!" The Pokémon steps up in front.

Jessie looks at Meowth. "Alright Meowth, your turn!"

"Let's do this!" Meowth steps up in front of Cubone, showing his sharp claws. "You ain't beating me, skully!"

Cubone gets upset at the nickname Meowth gave. "CUBONE!"

"That's it, Cubone, absorb all of that anger and use Bone Club!" Mondo commanded.

"Counter it with Scratch, Meowth!" Jessie countered.

Cubone aggressively tries to whack Meowth with its bone, but Meowth quickly gets one of his claws up as it's a standoff between Cubone's bone and Meowth's claw. "You're… not getting the… upper hand!" Meowth said while struggling to hold up his claw.

"Prove that talking Meowth by using Headbutt with your Skull!" Mondo commanded.

"Cubone!" Cubone bats Meowth's face with its skull, dealing damage.

"OW! My face!" Meowth holds his face in pain before getting smacked on the head with Cubone's bone, sending him to the floor.

Both Pidgeotto and Elekid cried out from being worried about Meowth hitting the floor. "Pidgeotto!" "Ele!"

"Meowth, are you okay?!" Jessie asked with a worried expression.

"Mondo's battling is good for Team Rocket, but bad for the two of us when he's showing off how weak we are. I hate that!" Cassidy grits her teeth.

Butch scoffs. "What a show-off."

Meowth slowly gets up, still able to fight. "Yeah, I'm fine."

The hostages all cheer after Meowth gets up, chanting his name. "Meowth! Meowth! Meowth!" "Stop that Team Rocket!"

Meowth chuckles. "Looks like I got a crowd cheering for me!"

"Oh yeah?!" Butch grabs one of the hostages to everyone's shock and holds a gun pointed to their head. "If you knock out Mondo's Cubone, this person is going to get it!"

The hostage starts begging for mercy. "Oh no, please don't kill me!"

"Shut up!" Butch ordered.

"Butch, what the hell are you doing?! Did you not listen when we discussed this earlier?!" Cassidy asked in disbelief.

"I'm guaranteeing our victory of course!" Butch answered.

"I was already doing well before you grabbed the hostage!" Mondo groans in annoyance. "Oh, whatever!"

Jessie grits her teeth. "I refuse to continue this! Let the person go, now!"

"Only if you hand your spark plug back to us and your Meowth that talks too!" Butch demanded.

Jessie doesn't know what to do as she starts pondering and repeating herself. "What should I do?! What should I do?!"

"Jessie, you can't hand us to them!" Meowth stated.

Elekid nods in agreement. "Ele!"

The hostage, that Butch has in his grasp, looks at Jessie "Hey kid… it's fine. Stop these criminals before anyone else gets hurt."

Jessie tries to explain. "But sir, I can't-"

"I said it's fine." The hostage person smiles. "Go on."

Jessie looks at the hostage person, sighing before nodding. "If you say so, sir. Meowth, use Screech!"

"On it!" Meowth uses one of its claws to drag it along the floor to create a loud, piercing noise, causing everyone, minus Jessie, to hold their ears and lower Cubone's defense.

"Make it stop, Cubone, with Bonemrang!" Mondo commanded while still holding his ears.

"Bonemerang?" Jessie questioned with a raised eyebrow.

"Cubone!" Cubone throws its bone like a boomerang towards Meowth.

The bone hits Meowth, causing him to drop to the floor and stop with the scratch and he gets back up while holding his head. "Okay, that hurts."

The bone comes back to Cubone, it grabs it and lets out a confident cry. "Cubone!"

Jessie gets an idea. "That's it!" She says in her mind before directing to Mondo out loud. "That was just luck, I bet you can't hit Meowth again with that move," Jessie smirks, hoping Mondo takes the bait.

"Oh yeah?!" Mondo does take the bait as he commands the same move. "Watch Cubone! Cubone hit Meowth again with another Bonemerang!"

"Cubone!" Cubone throws his bone again like a boomerang at Meowth.

"Um Mondo, I don't think you should've done that," Cassidy says.

"Meowth catch the bone!" Jessie commanded.

Meowth grabs the bone with his claw. "Caught it! Now what?"

"Throw it, but not towards Cubone." Jessie moves her eyes to Butch and then back to Meowth while moving her head to signal to throw it to Butch.

Meowth catches on. "Oh, I see now!" He throws the bone toward Butch.

"AH!" Butch screams as Cubone's bone hits him, causing Butch to fall, dropping the hostage he was holding and his gun.

Cubone's bone also hits Cassidy and Mondo, causing them to scream in pain, fall, and drop their guns as well. The bone goes back to Meowth.

"CUBONE!" Cubone cries out from seeing Mondo being hit to the ground.

Jessie yells out the top of her lungs seeing Team Rocket down with their guns dropped. "EVERYONE! NOW'S YOUR CHANCE TO GET OUT OF THE CENTER!"

All the hostages took the opportunity to immediately run out of the Pokémon Center to outside where the police with Officer Jenny were. "She did it… Jessie did it." Officer Jenny says with sparkles in her eyes.

Team Rocket gets back up, picking up their guns as the trio growls. "This little brat is ruining all of our plans!" Butch says in a frustrated tone.

"Mondo, take care of her now!" Cassidy demanded.

"Right! Cubone, use Bonemerang!" Mondo commanded.

Cubone was in a throwing position until the Pokémon realized that it didn't have its bone anymore. "Cubone! Cubone! Cubone!"

"Jessie, Cubone says they want its bone back." Meowth translated.

Jessie smirks. "Then give it back!"

Meowth nods also smirking. "My pleasure! Heads up, skully!" He throws the bone to Cubone fast.

The bone whacks Cubone hard as the Pokémon falls to the ground. "Cubone!" It cries in pain.

"I was doing so well!" Mondo tries to get Cubone to stand back up. "Come on Cubone, get up!"

Cubone starts to show signs of still being able to battle by getting up slowly. "Cu…bone…"

Jessie clutches her fist. "I don't think so! Meowth, use Scratch!"

"Meowth is going to teach you a lesson!" Meowth scratches Cubone with its sharp claws.

"CUBONE!" Cubone falls to the ground, completely knocked out now.

"Cubone, return!" Mondo recalls Cubone back in its Poké Ball.

"I can't believe this little annoying twerpette has beaten all of our Pokémon!" Butch says in disbelief.

"What do we do now?!" Mondo asked, panicking.

"I got an idea!" Cassidy opens up the sack full of Poké Balls. "We can use the Pokémon here that Nurse Jay gave us to beat that pink-hatted twerpette! All of her Pokémon will get tired eventually."

"Bring it then! I can take down a lot of weak and injured Pokémon!" Meowth declared.

Elekid and Pidgeotto both back up Meowth with their cries. "Ele!" "Pidgeotto!"

"All of my Pokémon are right! They're gonna give it their all to defeat criminals like you and so am I! Give us your best shot!" Jessie declared.

"How touching," Cassidy says sarcastically before she and her partners-in-crime take a Poké Ball out of the sack. "Get ready to lose, kid!"

"Poke Ball, go!" The Team Rocket trio all said together as they threw the Poké Balls in the air, waiting for a Pokémon to materialize.

However, the three Poké Balls just hit the ground and then open. Nothing materialized out of the Poké Balls. "WHAT?!" Butch questioned in disbelief.

Cassidy looks at Nurse Joy. "That Nurse Joy gave us nothing but empty Poké Balls. She tricked us!"

Nurse Joy shyly waves at the trio behind the counter as Domino comes running from behind her. "Nurse Joy! I successfully transferred all the Poké Balls to the Pewter City Pokémon Center!"

"That's it, you're dead, Nurse Joy!" Butch aims his gun at Nurse Joy and quickly pulls the trigger before she ducked behind the counter, but the gun clicks. "What the hell?!"

Mondo facepalms. "Oh no! Don't tell me you doofuses forgot to load up the guns!"

"I wasn't on gun duty, don't blame me." Cassidy crosses her arms and looks away.

"Guys, the guns are not loaded, get out of here! Elekid and Pidgeotto, return!" Jessie recalls both of the two Pokémon back in their Poké Ball as Meowth hops on her shoulder before she sprints out of the Pokémon Center with Domino and Nurse Joy following her out of the building.

"This has been a complete disaster! Let's get out of here!" Butch was about to run off into the exit.

Cassidy stops Butch by grabbing him. "We can't exit through the doors! Police have this building surrounded! We're going have to exit through the air!" She pulls out a remote control and presses it.

Above the Pokémon Center is Team Rocket's hot air balloon as a rope drops below the basket, through the broken glass letter P sunroof. Cassidy, Butch, and Mondo grab onto the rope. "Hmm… something is strange. Why isn't the police raiding the building now since all the hostages are outside?" Mondo asked in confusion.

Outside where Jessie, Meowth, Domino, Nurse Joy, Officer Jenny, the police, and the hostages are looking at the Pokémon Center. The whole building completely explodes, sending Team Rocket blasting into the air.

The Team Rocket trio is now covered in ashes as they talk while they're going up and up into the sky. "Oh yeah… we planted a bomb. We forgot about that too." Mondo sighs in defeat.

Cassidy growls. "You two morons would forget your heads if it wasn't attached to you."

"Hey! You keep calling yourself the leader of this trio, so you're gonna take most of the blame!" Butch responded with a yell.

Mondo immediately ends the fighting and suggests an idea to her partners-in-crime. "Guys, let's not argue! I got an idea, let's follow that pink-hatted girl. Not only has she got the spark plug that ran away from us, but a talking Meowth as well! She's got a bunch of valuable Pokémon for us to steal!"

Cassidy smiles in delight. "That sounds like a great idea, Mondo! The boss is gonna appreciate us if we bring in a talking Meowth for him!"

Butch nods. "I'm in! The girls will all get with me once I get officially promoted!"

"LOOKS LIKE TEAM ROCKET IS BLASTING OFF!" Ding!

The scene cuts inside the police station where Jessie, Meowth, Domino, and Officer Jenny are.

Officer Jenny salutes to the three. "I salute you all! Jessie for your courage, Meowth for your battling, and Domino for your intelligence! Without you three, Team Rocket would get away with the Poké Balls for good!"

"Oh Officer Jenny, there's one thing I need to ask," Domino says.

Jessie's eyes widened, thinking it was about her burnt bike, and started panicking in her mind. "Is she going to get me arrested?!"

Domino asked the question. "How long is it going to take for the Pokémon Center to rebuild after the explosion from the bomb?"

Officer Jenny frowns. "It could take days, maybe a month to rebuild. It's sad because trainers with injured Pokémon that come here have to go to Pewter City to get their Pokémon healed."

"Where is Pewter City?" Jessie asked.

Officer Jenny smiles. "Pewter City is just right through the Viridian Forest. I can take you two if you want?"

"Yes!" Jessie and Domino immediately replied.

The scene cuts to Officer Jenny finishing leading Jessie, Meowth, and Domino to the entrance of the Viridian Forest with her motorcycle as the three hop off. "This is it, Viridian Forest."

"Wow, that's one big forest. We could get lost in there." Domino says.

"You kids have to be careful, make sure you know where you're going. I'm heading back to Viridian City. Again, thank you all for saving the Pokémon from Team Rocket!" Officer Jenny starts driving back to Viridian City.

Jessie turns to Domino with a smirk. "I see you didn't say anything to Officer Jenny about the burnt bike."

Domino scoffs, crossing her arms. "Don't think you're getting this off without consequences. The only reason why I didn't say anything is because I feel sympathy for you. You're still gonna pay me for a new bike!"

"I can't hear you, I'm going inside the Viridian Forest!" Jessie begins walking in the Viridian Forest.

"Hey! Get back here! You are going to pay me for my bike, Jessie!" Domino sprints off to follow Jessie inside the forest.

Meowth chuckles. "This is gonna be a long adventure is it?" He follows Jessie and Domino into the forest too.

As Jessie, Meowth, and Domino are walking together in the Viridian Forest, the narrator begins concluding the episode. "Jessie was able to stop a criminal organization known as Team Rocket! She was able to save all the hostages and the Pokémon from being stolen, but something tells me they're not going to be done with Jessie yet. What adventures await in the deep Viridian Forest for Jessie, Meowth, and Domino? Find out as the journey continues!"