Red's POV

Bugsy drank noisily, slurping the water like a vacuum cleaner. Yellow stared at him persistently. Showing no sign of embarrassment, he wiped his mouth on his sleeve and belched.

He then focused onto the Shawarma which was also his fifth order. He ate like a caveman, taking massive bites rather than eating it properly. In a few blinks, the plate was neat and clean.

"You know", said Bugsy, gulping what he savoured for a few seconds. "Shawarma is my Kryptonite."

Lyra placed her fork down in disgust, pausing to take a deep breath and then drinking a glass of water. "Okay, I don't feel like eating anymore."

"Make space...I'mma wash my hands." Bugsy stood up and I pulled my legs back. I didn't have to make space for him, he was so thin he could fit in a travel bagpack.

"Wash your face too." Lyra joshed, quickly looking out of the window. Bugsy stared and walked towards the washroom.

Suddenly, a man sitting at the table near the entrance got up and walked to another man who just walked in. I looked at him in suspicion. He intendedly bumped into the other man.

"He watch it." Complained the guy who walked in seconds ago.

The man secretly switched the other man's wallet with a piece of folded paper. "Sorry, my bad." He walked out.

"Guys, I need some fresh air." I said, staring calmly at the front door as I stood up and power walked to the door.

The thief walked on the road quietly without making it obvious that he was a thief. If you go by his face, he was as innocent as a Magikarp. I continue to follow him without his knowledge.

Lyra's POV

"Yellow, I'm gonna go after Red." I said, standing up and picking up my bag. "You know he tends to get into trouble."

"Fine." Yellow agreed, with a big smile on her face, mostly because she was now alone with Bugsy.

"C'mon Marill." Marill hopped into my shoulder and I rushed outside the restaurant.

Red walked stealthily, tailing the man who was in the restaurant a few minutes ago. Red knows something about him that I don't - I thought. Don't do anything stupid, Lyra.

The man turned to his left and continued into the forest-ish area. Red hid behind a tree and eavesdropped. I kept my distance from Red, while I looked at what that man was upto.

He was joined by another guy who was a little bit older than him. He held a bag in his hand and began unzipping it.

"I got these from the Ecruteak Costume Shop. Now, put these on." He said, as he threw a Team Rocket uniform at his face.

"Jim, you sure ? Police are looking for these dudes and if they see us wearing their uniform, police will think we are Team Rocket and we'll be jailed."

"Max, relax. You take too much stress, just breathe. Lighten yourself, we are just robbing people using these. Not that we are destroying a whole city."

"But still, it's bad. I don't want to wear them." Said Max. He stuffed the costume back into the bag.

"Okay, Max." Cried Jim. "We'll not be able to make any money for our sister's operation."

"Wait, we have a sister ?" Asked Max. "When did she happen ?"

"I'm kidding, you piece of-"
"I'll do it, should be a piece of cake. But it's the last time we are doing things according to your plan."
"Fine! As if your plans are very good."

Max pulled the costume outside and began changing. I looked away, none of my business.

"Let's do this." Said Jim, hiding the bag inside a bush.

"What's the plan again ?" Asked Max, putting the Team Rocket cap on his head.

"We go to the jewelry store, and take all the jewelry and run away with the jewelry and then I get sixty percent and you get forty percent."

"Wait, why do you get sixty ?" Asked Max. "It should be fifty-fifty."

"My plan." Said Jim. "Now, move it."

Red's POV

Max and Jim, two regular thieves, now dressed as the members of one of the world's top criminal organisations - Team Rocket. I wasn't afraid of what they were pretending to be, but was afraid of what they could do.

Their plan was dumb. If any police officer sees them, they are dead. Good thing they don't have a toy gun.

"Max, take this. It's a toy gun just to scare people." Said Jim handing Max a gun.

"Does it shoot bullets ?" Asked Max. "Fake bullets ?."

"No, you dummy." Said Jim, annoyed. "Yours shoot bubbles while mine is a cigarette lighter."

"Oh. Can I have the lighter ? Bubbles is too kiddish."

"Shut up. Just keep it, we aren't going to pull the trigger are we ?"

Max put the gun in his pant's pocket then pointed towards the jewelry shop. "There it is."

The shop looked old, it seemed like there used to be a town where the jewelry shop stood now. Okay not a town, a village. The shop looked like as if an old man was the owner. Believe me, it was that old.

"Why do they have to dress like Team Rocket just to rob a small jewelry shop ?" I asked myself. "Something's wrong."

"Absolutely." Said Lyra, walking by my side. "Yeah I was following you."

"You could've joined me before. What were you waiting for ? For me to say something so that you could make an entrance ?" I asked. "Super cliche, Lyra."

"Look at those two." Lyra pointed at Max and Jim.

Max knocked the door. "Anyone there ? Is the shop open ?"

"Jim, I'mma kill you, it says open. No need to knock." The door opened.

"Team Rocket ?" Asked a kid at the door. "Why are you here, again ?"

"Again ?" Asked Max, scratching his head.

"I told you to stay away from my brother. He left Team Rocket now. Okay ? No need to come again and again." Said the kid. "Go Elekid."

"Oh, so you want a battle huh ?." Jim pulled out his gun and pointed it towards the kid. The kid barely flinch.

"That's a lighter isn't it ?" Asked the kid. "I know that because it's written on it."

Jim noticed cigarette lighter carved on his gun. "I'm stupid."

"Elekid, thundershock." Said the kid. The attack hit Max. He fell down a feet away with a crack noise.

"You!" Said Max, slowly getting up. The kid laughed at him. Max had a big patch of water on the centre of his pants on the zip area.

"Did you just pee in your pants ?" Asked the kid, laughing.

"Okay then. Go Snubbull." Said Jim.
"Go Shuckle." Said Max.

"Max, call that thing back it's useless."
"What, he's not useless."

"Elekid, thunderbolt." Said the kid. Shuckle fainted. "I ain't no amateur."

"Snubbull, use Bite." Said Jim, with uncontrollable anger.

Elekid fainted. Though he managed to defeat the Shuckle, the Elekid was not that strong to defeat the Snubbull.

"No one can save you from us now." Said Max, gaining on the kid.

Suddenly, a boy pulled the kid inside and punched Max on the face. Then, he kicked Jim making him fall to the ground.

"Nobody messes with my brother." Said the boy. "I said I left Team-wait a minute, who are you ? You're not from Team Rocket."

"Uh, we are new recruits." Max argued, he pulled out his fake bubble gun and pointed towards the boy.

"I'm not afraid of guns." Said the teenage boy. "And especially not broken toy guns."

Max looked at his gun which was broken and leaked water. Jim face palmed in dismal.

"Why are you here ?" Asked the boy.

"Uh, we wanted to rob the jewelry shop." Said Max. "But we failed, yet again. Jim your plans always suck."

"What jewelry shop ? The shop is a hundred meters to the North." He said. "Oh wait, you saw the board ? I was making it for the shop."

Max punched Jim on the face. "You monster, I'm making plans from now."

"That won't be a problem. The police is coming." Said the boy.

"Who's stopping us from running ?" Asked Max.

Max and Jim tried to run, but they fell down, realising their hands were cuffed together.

"Me." Said a Police Officer. "Thank you, Mr Sanchez."

"Anytime officer." Said the boy. The officer dragged the two burglars towards the station.

I looked at Lyra. "He's an ex-Team Rocket grunt."

"So ?"
"Why didn't the police catch him ?"
"Please tell me, you're not thinking what I'm thinking that you're thinking."
"Yes. Let's talk to him, get some information out that may help Looker."

Lyra's POV

Red knocked the door of the house and it was opened by the kid.

"Yes ?" Asked the kid.

"We saw what happened just now." I said. "I think we could use your brother's help."

"What kind of help ?" Asked the kid's brother walking to the door, filled with curiosity and anger.

"Some information, that you may have regarding Team Rocket."

"What specifically ? I know everything." Smirked the teenage boy.

"Everything that's important." Red asked.

"Giovanni is still the true owner, but Charles seems power so he wants to kill Giovanni." Said the boy. "Do you know why he wants the Master Ball ? Fifteen years ago, he wanted a powerful Pokémon, so he created one using Mew's DNA. The experiment failed and the clone ran away, destroying..."

"Project-Mew-2" Red murmured. "He wants the Master Ball to catch the Mewtwo. But I think he has one already."

"Giovanni is a very secretive person. I just know general things that are planned for Team Rocket. But I know Giovanni has his own plans."

"What kind of plans ? What's worse than Team Rocket ?"

"That's what I'm failing to imagine. He has something planned, that we can't even imagine."

"This keeps getting cooler and cooler." I said. "Um, sorry."

"I think Giovanni will return soon, back to his original place, as the leader of Team Rocket."

"Why did he even create Rainbow Rocket ? What was the use ?" Asked Red.

"To gain trust of his son, the only thing he failed to accomplish." Said the boy. "Apparently, that's what he wants people to think."

"Wait, what ? He had a purpose for creating Rainbow Rocket too ?" I asked, confused, thinking what could be the reason.

"Yes. He wanted someone to trust him, but not his son. Someone he wants to fulfill his plans. As far as I know he's some kind of scientist who Giovanni needs desperately because without him, his plans won't work."

"Who could he be ?" I asked, looking at Red, who was lost deep into thought.

"I don't know." Said the boy. "What I know is that his plans are dangerous, he is dangerous and should be stopped before he executes his plans."

Red's POV

I could see some information falling into place to make sense. Last year in Viridian City, I was told that the bus accident in which my dad passed, was a fake. Also, Sabrina explained that Giovanni kidnapped the lead scientist working on the Master Ball. Now, this guy is telling me that the scientist was Giovanni's plan.

Maybe I was overthinking, but I couldn't deny it. I didn't want to think about this, but maybe, my father was alive. No, it can't be, he was a scientist. He would've found a way to contact us by now. I was thinking wrong.

Whoever this man was, whose help Giovanni seeked, was a person with a very high intelligence. Giovanni clearly wasn't smart enough on his own.

Why would he need a scientist ? What happened in Goldenrod was because of him ? Obviously, it was planned by a scientist. Dimensional travel was of course planned by a scientist, without a doubt. What was Giovanni gaining ? That, I need to figure out.

Giovanni's POV

"Charles !" I yelled at the phone. "I ordered you not to communicate with Earth-2 Giovanni. But you did."

"Why should I listen to you ? Your plans, are trash, they are uncertain. My plans are better than yours. You understand ? I am the leader of Team Rocket." Said Charles. "Now you listen to me. If you try to get in my way, I'll chase you down, I promise."

"Remember the promises I made when any of you joined Team Rocket ?" I smiled.

"What ?"

"If you betray me, you'll get what you deserve." I whispered. "Death ! And talking about uncertainty, you lost a battle against a ten year old. And let me make something very clear to you, if anything happens to that kid, Red or his friends. You'll regret it."

"That's why you've been trying to protect him all this time ? Because of that promise you made to Ben ? Oh Giovanni, just try to protect him, meanwhile I'll send someone after him. Let's see what you're made of." Said Charles. "Game on."

He hung up the phone call. I smirked.