The episode starts out with the gang, minus Meowth, laying on a random beach, unconscious.
Jessie slowly starts opening her eyes, gaining consciousness. "Huh?" She spots Domino and James still knocked out and immediately tries to wake them up. "James, Domino, wake up!"
James slowly starts gaining consciousness and opening his eyes. "I can see the angels, now that we're on the clouds…"
Domino also opens her eyes and gains consciousness. "Ugh… is this the afterlife?"
Jessie thinks for a bit. "I don't think so. I don't feel dead, do you?"
"Hmm…" Domino pinches herself. "Ouch. Yeah we're still alive."
James feels around his face and notices he's not wearing his sunglasses anymore. "My shades! The universe isn't ready for my eyes!" He immediately blocks his eyes with his arm and tries to find them while his arm is covering his eyes.
Jessie spots James' sunglasses, picks them up, and hands the sunglasses back to James. He immediately puts his sunglasses back on and sighs in relief.
Jessie looks around. "So, where are we?"
Domino also looks around as well. "Looks like we're stranded on an island."
Jessie groans in annoyance. "Apparently it's too much to ask to get to Celadon City."
James notices something. "You don't think the people we know, like our friends and family, think we're dead, right?"
"Well the S.S. Anne crash will definitely be on the news and I hope they don't find anyone dead. As long as we didn't tell anyone that we were on that ship, we should be okay." Domino answered.
Jessie sighs in relief. "I didn't tell anyone, thank goodness."
"I didn't either." James added.
"Neither have I, so we should be good with that." Domino says.
"Wait a minute… Why does it feel like something is missing?" Jessie asked.
James also notices it too. "You know, it does feel like something is messing, Jess."
Domino starts thinking. "Yeah and my name hasn't been made fun of yet."
"Nobody has called me Jimmy yet…" James added.
Everyone took a few seconds to think about what was missing. They all finally found out. "MEOWTH!"
The title screen shows.
"Lord of the Pokémon!"
"WHERE IS MEOWTH?! We have to make sure all of our Pokémon are here too!" James looks in his backpack to make sure all of his Pokémon are safe.
Jessie looks in her purse and starts counting the Poké Ball she currently has in there. "Wait what?! Maybe I miscounted?!" Jessie starts counting again, only to get the same number, which is five. That leaves Jessie speechless in shock.
"What?" James asked.
"One of my Poké Balls is missing! I think it was the one that contained Squirtle!" Jessie answered.
James now starts digging through his pockets, realizing that two Poké Balls are missing as he is now shocked in disbelief. "MY BALLS!"
Domino now digs through her pockets, realizing that one of her Poké Balls is missing as well, who is also now shocked in disbelief.
"Ch-Charmander and Pikachu are missing!" James says, worried.
"My Bulbasaur is missing as well!" Domino also says, worried as well.
Jessie immediately starts questioning. "Where could they be?!"
It cuts to another part of the island as we see Meowth's head in the sand, unconscious.
Meowth gains consciousness by pulling his head out from the sand. "Huh?" The Pokémon looks around, seeing nothing but sand, the ocean, and a forest. "Ugh, my head." Meowth holds his head and stumbles upon some Poké Balls in the sand. "Hm?" Meowth taps on one of the Poké Balls.
The Poké Ball opens up as a red beam shoots out from it.
Meowth got caught off guard from the red beam. "WHOA!"
The red beam makes an outline of a Squirtle, only to slowly fade away and reveal actually Squirtle inside, who appears to be holding their head.
"Squirtle, Squirtle?"
("Ugh, what happened?")
"Who's that Pokémon? It's Squirtle!" Meowth joked with a laugh.
Squirtle rolls their eyes. "Squirtle, Squirtle, Squirtle."
("Haha, really funny, but answer my question.")
Meowth shrugs in response. "I don't know, really."
Squirtle notices the Poké Balls in the sand and starts pressing them one after another, basically sending them all out.
Bulbasaur, Pikachu, and Charmander all look around in confusion.
"Bulbasaur?!"
("Where are we?!")
"Charmander."
("Bunch of sand.")
Bulbasaur looks annoyed. "Bulbasaur, Bulbasaur, Bulbasaur."
("Of course, out of all the trainers that could've won that Nugget Tournament, it had to be the trainer in this group.")
"Charmander, Charmander. Charmander."
("Hey, it's not that bad. One of them really cared about me.")
Pikachu crosses its arms. "Pikachu!"
("Jessie's the problem!")
"Squirtle?! Squirtle!"
("How?! Why are you blaming Jessie?")
"Pikachu!"
("She stinks and I don't like her!")
"Squirtle…"
("She traded you to James, like what you wanted…")
Pikachu shakes its head. "Pikachu!"
("Still shocks me to see her act like a moron!")
Charmander starts patting Pikachu's back. "Charmander. Charmander."
("Calm down buddy. Just calm down.")
Bulbasaur finally speaks up to stop the arguing. "Bulbasaur. Bulbasaur, Bulbasaur."
("There's no point in arguing. Like it or not, we need to find our trainers.")
Squirtle nods. "Squirtle."
("Right.")
"Let's just hope Team Rocket ain't around." Meowth says, looking around.
Bulbasaur chuckles. "Bulbasaaauuur."
("Well it seems like they're only interested in you soooooo.")
"SHUT UP!" Meowth yelled.
It cuts to another part of the island where the Team Rocket trio are at. They're buried in sand, head first. The three rise up from the sand, holding their heads.
Cassidy starts complaining about her headache. "Ugh… my head."
Butch looks around and sees nothing but a forest, sand, and the ocean. "Where are we now? Is this some kind of joke?"
"Wait, does this mean we literally survived again?!" Cassidy realized.
Mondo checks his pockets for his Cubone, but finds nothing. "Guys. I don't think Cubone's Poké Ball is with me anymore…"
Cassidy and Butch now both check their pockets as well for their Pokémon, but they also find nothing.
"I can't find Rattata's Poké Ball…" Cassidy confirmed.
"OH FUCK THEY GOT MANKEY!" Butch yelled out, extremely worried.
"BUT CUBONE!" Mondo added.
"RATTATA!" Cassidy starts shedding tears from her Pokémon being missing.
"MANKEY!" Butch starts punching the sand in frustration. "Damn it…"
"We should call the boss." Cassidy suggested.
"I'm pretty sure this island doesn't have service, Einstein." Mondo says.
"Trying is better than not trying at all!" Cassidy starts dialing Giovanni's number.
Butch groans in tiredness. "I need a vacation."
After Cassidy has finished dialing Giovanni's boss, she puts her phone up in her ear, only to get the no service message. "DAMMIT!"
Mondo rolls his eyes. "Told you so."
"I just want to get off of this damn island already!" Cassidy complained.
"Cassidy, I'm not dealing with your bitching today!" Butch says. "Besides, I'm not leaving this island without Mankey!"
"And I'm not leaving this island without Cubone!" Mondo added.
"You're both right…" Cassidy admitted. "I wouldn't want to leave this island without Rattata as well."
Butch points out something. "Wait, before we go search for them. No one thinks we're currently dead, right?"
"I'm pretty sure we didn't tell anyone that we three were going on the S.S. Anne. Well I didn't." Cassidy confirmed.
"Neither did I." Mondo also confirmed.
Butch nods. "Same here."
"Alright, we should be alright. We just have to find our Pokémon and get off of this island fast. Once we do that, no one should think we're dead." Cassidy says.
Mondo starts to think horrible thoughts. "What if something happens to Cubone…"
"Rattata…" Cassidy also starts thinking horrible thoughts.
"Mankey…" Same with Butch.
"WE GOTTA FIND THEM FAST!" The Team Rocket trio sprints into the forest to find their Pokémon.
It cuts to dusk and where the gang's lost Pokémon are, walking somewhere in the forest. They're using Charmander's tail as a light.
"Pikachu!"
("At least Charmander's here to provide us light!")
"Squirtle, Squirtle!"
("Thank goodness we have you, Charmander!")
Bulbasaur nods in agreement. "Bulbasaur, Bulbasaur!"
("Yeah, we would totally lose in the darkness without you!")
Charmander starts blushing from getting praised. "Charmander, Charmander. Charmander!"
("Guys, we're all friends here. Of course I'll try my best to at least help us get back to our trainers!")
"At least dumb Team Rocket ain't here."
The gang's Pokémon hears rattling in the bushes which got their attention. All the Pokémon take a step back from the bush and get ready to attack for defense. However, it was just Rattata, Mankey and Cubone.
Meowth groans in annoyance. "Spoke too soon. Whatever, I'm out of here, I'm not dealing with this again!" He begins to leave.
Pikachu, Charmander, Bulbasaur, and Squirtle all start following Meowth.
"CUBONE!"
("GET BACK HERE!")
"Mankey, Mankey? Mankey?"
("What's the matter, twerps? Scared?")
Meanwhile, Rattata just stays silent in the back. The gang's Pokémon continue walking, ignoring Mankey.
"MANKEY! MANKEY!"
("HAH! BABIES!")
The gang's Pokémon immediately stop and turn to Team Rocket's Pokémon.
"Pika! Pika! Pikachu!"
("At least our evolutions are way stronger than yours! Nobody cares about Primeape especially! So quit monkeying around!")
Mankey starts getting angry from Pikachu's words. Rattata still stays silent in the back.
"Squirtle."
("We can easily blast you off again.")
Bulbasaur nods in agreement. "Bulbasaur."
("They're right.)
"Cubone?"
("Oh yeah?")
Cubone starts attacking Squirtle with their bone club as Mankey starts attacking Bulbasaur as the two Pokémon begin to fight back. Rattata doesn't attack anymore and continues staying silent.
Meowth groans in annoyance. "You morons are killing each other."
Mankey notices Rattata isn't attacking and looks over. "Mankey! Mankey?"
("Rat! Why aren't you attacking?")
"Rattata."
("Master isn't here.")
"Mankey? Mankey, Mankey."
("Are you really going to listen to Casserole? Well sorry buddy, cause she's not here.")
Rattata shoots a glare at Mankey. "Rattata, Rattata."
("You listen to Biff around, you shouldn't be talking.")
"Mankey. Mankey. Mankey."
("I can fight whenever I want. He only adds me into action. Stop being a wimp.")
"Rattata… Rattata."
("I'm not a bad Pokémon… I only do bad things because master is bad.")
Mankey, Cubone, Squirtle, and Bulbasaur all stop fighting each other after what Rattata just said.
"Wait. You're really a good Pokémon, but only do bad things because of Cassidy?" Meowth questioned.
"Cubone? CubONe!"
("Oh yeah? And I do evil things because I am an EVIL Pokémon!")
"Rattata? Rattata, Rattata? Rattata."
("Or are you only evil because Mondo is evil too? If you were with one of those good trainers, you wouldn't be an evil Pokémon, right? Same thing with you Mankey with Buzz.")
Mankey shrugs in response. "Mankey. Mankey."
("Cubone's got a point. Some of us are just bad to the bone from the start.")
Meowth crosses his arms. "I never had a trainer before Jessie. And you know, she never taught me how to talk or walk."
"Charmander, Charmander."
("Damian was terrible to me, yet I remained a good Pokémon.")
"Squirtle… Squirtle, Squirtle, Squirtle."
("Well… Jessie caught me by using an electric type move on me, one of my weaknesses, but I gladly accepted my welcome to the group.")
"Bulbasaur. Bulbasaur."
("Domino won me by winning the Nugget tournament. I'm just glad it was Domino and not some mean trainer.")
"Pika. Pika. Pika. Pikachu."
("Well uh. I was always a Pokémon who didn't really like to be handled by a trainer. But then James came along and proved to be better than Jessie in every way. He has experience you know.")
Mankey and Cubone just glare in response without a word.
Squirtle looks at Pikachu. "Squirtle. Squirtle, Squirtle?"
("You know you wouldn't be with James if it wasn't for Jessie in the first place. Since you're not her Pokémon anymore, maybe you should be a little nicer to her now?")
Pikachu sighs and looks away in response. "Pika… Pikachu."
("Fine… I guess you're right.")
Rattata starts tearing up a little. "Rattata. Rattata. Rattata."
("Master got me for Christmas. She really loved me and she was also glad that I was her first ever Pokémon. She promised to protect me.")
Everyone is just speechless at what Rattata just admitted.
Mankey breaks the silence. "Mankey? Mankey?!"
("You were a present? All along?!")
Rattata nods in response. "Rattata?"
("How did Bob get you?")
Mankey crosses its arms in annoyance. "Mankey. Mankey. Mankey, Mankey. Mankey. Mankey."
("Fine. He got me when he was a teenager. He found me in the streets, and we became inseparable. He's a black belt in karate. So we trained.")
Squirtle is shocked by this story. "Squirtle…"
("Whoa…")
Meowth looks really sad. "I'm starting to… tear up."
Cubone rolls its eyes in annoyance. "Cubone! Cubone!"
("You're all weak! I can't believe you!")
Bulbasaur side-eyes Cubone. "Bulbasaur? Bulbasaur, Bulbasaur?"
("Oh yeah? Cubone, can you tell us why you wear that skull on top of your head?")
Cubone doesn't say anything for a few seconds, that question must've brought back an awful memory. "Cubone!"
("It's an accessory!")
Cubone starts laughing really loud.
Bulbasaur once again side-eyes the Pokémon, not believing Cubone one bit. "Bulbasaur, Bulbasaur."
("Fine, keep your little secrets.")
"Pikachu."
("I think they're hiding something.")
Cubone shakes his head. "Cubone."
("I'm not.")
Cubone grinned underneath the skull, a small visible tear is seen.
Squirtle notices the tear. "Squirtle, Squirtle. Squirtle, Squirtle."
("Dude, you shed a tear. Come on man, talk to us.")
Cubone goes silent for a little bit once more. "CuBOne!"
("If you all really INSIST on me!")
Time skips to Cubone finishing making a campfire and orders all the Pokémon to gather around, which they do as Charmander lits up the campfire with its tail.
Cubone takes a deep breath and begins to tell their story. "Cubone. Cubone, Cubone, Cubone. Cubone. Cubone. Cubone, Cubone. Cubone. Cubone. Cubone. Cubone…"
("It all started a year ago. I was out with my mother in the grass, until one day, a group suddenly showed up. They attacked us. My mother did her best to protect me and I wanted to fight back. But it was too late, she was gone. I was almost gone. Mondo found me with the skull in his hand. I wore it and he healed me. And that's how…")
All the Pokémon remain absolutely silent from hearing Cubone's story for a couple of minutes, some are feeling really bad for the Pokémon.
Squirtle finally broke the silence. "Squirtle… Squirtle."
("Oh… I'm so sorry Cubone.")
Cubone starts tearing up a lot. "Cubone… Cubone, Cubone!"
("You're all stupid… stupid, stupid I tell you!")
"Alright, we get it…" Meowth says.
Bulbasaur nods. "Bulbasaur, Bulbasaur. Bulbasaur, Bulbasaur, Bulbasaur."
(Yeah, we didn't know. Look, it's getting pretty late, we should all sleep in for the night then look for our trainers tomorrow.")
"Charmander."
("And we need to look for someone who can help us.")
Charmander added.
Squirtle nods in agreement. "Squirtle."
("Yeah.")
"So let's snooze. Good night, don't let the bug types bite." Meowth says.
It cuts to another part of the island where the gang are wandering in the forest at night, still trying to look for their Pokémon.
Jessie sighs. "I still can't find them, guys."
"Me neither, unfortunately." Domino says.
James groans. "My legs are getting tired from walking all day."
"Looks like we have to rest for the night." Domino suggested.
Jessie starts pouting. "But I want to find them now!"
"Jessie, we will look for them tomorrow. We're on an island with little land surrounded by an extremely big ocean, we will find them eventually." Domino explained.
Jessie slowly nods in agreement. "Fine."
It cuts to a pink Pokémon with vacant eyes, curled ears, and a rounded, tan muzzle behind a tree that seems to be secretly watching the gang behind a tree.
It cuts to the inside of a cave where the gang found. Domino, is lighting up a match while she is resting with Jessie and James.
Domino sighs. "Guys… I think everyone thinks we're dead."
James immediately shakes his head. "Domino, we talked about this before. As long as no one knows we went on the S.S. Anne, we should be in the clear."
"I know! It's just… I feel like they do know." Domino replies.
Jessie looks down in sadness. "If my mom knows, I bet she is crying her eyes out right about now… You know, I can't imagine growing up without my mom."
"I wish I could go back to the past and stop myself from getting on that ship." Domino says.
James and Jessie both nod in agreement from Domino's statement.
"We have to get off this island quickly. Otherwise our friends and family will start assuming we are either dead or missing." James explained.
"As soon as we find our Pokémon first." Domino added.
"Speaking of Pokémon…" Jessie sighs. "I just don't understand why Pikachu dislikes me. I know Pikachu is way happier with you, James, but I just don't know what I did that made it so mad at me in the first place."
"I never understood that either." James admitted.
"Maybe it just didn't like being captured?" Domino suggested. "I mean it was mad at the exact moment you caught it."
"But that's what a Pokémon trainer is supposed to do, catch Pokémon!" Jessie pouted.
"He seemed to like me anyways." James says. "Also, you already have an electric-type, Jessie, which is Electabuzz!"
Jessie perks up a little. "Yeah, you're right, thanks James!"
James chuckles. "Don't mention it."
"I hope we get rescued soon." Jessie says while looking at the ground of the cave.
"We can't be stuck here forever!" James declared.
Domino looks down. "What's the point if I get rescued? Nothing will change for me if I'm back in cities or stuck on this island."
Jessie and James look at each in confusion.
"Domino, what do you mean?" Jessie asked.
"I wasn't picked to be the Cerulean Gym leader, I lost the spot to Misty, I moved out from my parents house and I mostly just live in the woods. I don't really have enough money to afford a place, that's why I really wanted that spot as the gym leader of Cerulean City." Domino frowns.
"Oh, I see, that's a lot to take in…" Jessie admitted.
James nods in agreement from Jessie's statement. "Wow Domino, I'm really sorry."
"Jessie, remember when we met?" Domino asked.
Jessie starts thinking. "Hmm… oh yeah, you were fishing and you kinda reeled me in from the river."
"And you know why I was fishing?" Domino asked.
"I'm assuming that you were trying to catch a new water-type Pokémon, right?" Jessie answered.
Domino shakes her head no. "No, that's unfortunately not the case during that."
Jessie looks at Domino in a confused look. "Huh?"
"I was fishing for food…" Domino admitted.
"Wait, so you were planning on eating a water-type Pokémon?" James asked.
Domino looks down and tears up a little bit. "Y-yeah, I was. I was hungry and I had my fishing pole with me. I-I didn't want to, I had thoughts going through my head saying 'don't do it' or 'do it' but I eventually did. I was just really hungry and you gotta do what you have to do to survive…"
Jessie and James both comfort Domino as she was crying her eyes out. A few minutes has passed as Domino stops crying.
"As a water-type Pokémon trainer, I haven't told anyone this except for you guys. Can you both please keep this a secret?" Domino asked.
Jessie and James both immediately nod in agreement.
"Of course, Domino." Jessie says.
"Thank you so much guys." Domino immediately hugs both Jessie and James as they hug back as well.
A couple of minutes passed as they finally broke the hug.
"Come on, it's getting late. We should head to sleep." Jessie suggested.
The gang all lay down on the cave ground.
Jessie says goodnight. "Night guys."
"Night." James and Domino replied.
It cuts to another part of the island where the Team Rocket trio is at, also still looking for their Pokémon, but no luck.
Cassidy stops stomping her foot on the ground. "I can't find my precious Rattata anywhere!"
"MANKEY!" Butch shouted.
"Cubone, where are you?!" Mondo also shouted.
Cassidy groans in annoyance. "How big is this island anyway?!"
"I don't know and I don't care." Butch replied. "Civilization is far away from us anyways."
Cassidy rolls her eyes. "You cared enough to answer my question."
"Shut it." Butch says.
"You shut it!" Cassidy snapped back.
Mondo sighs. "Times like this I wonder how we went wrong or why we even came together in the first place?"
The Team Rocket trio began to think about the day they became a trio as a flashback of that begins. It starts with Giovanni's office as the boss himself looking at some papers.
Cassidy slams the double doors open in frustration. "Boss, I want new partners! My two current partners right now are a complete joke!"
Giovanni raises an eyebrow. "What do you mean a complete joke?"
"They're really bad at their job, they don't listen to a word I say!" Cassidy replied in frustration.
Two Team Rocket grunts enter the office behind Cassidy, the two who are Cassidy's partners.
"We're sick and tired of your stupid attitude! We're not a complete joke!" The female grunt protested.
"You're so self centered and selfish. Give us a chance to shine!" The male grunt demanded.
Giovanni thinks for a little bit. "Alright, alright… I'll see what I can do!"
"Thanks boss. If I'm so selfish and have such a bad attitude, you might as well find two people who can deal with it." Cassidy turns to her two now former partners. "Unlike these two clowns."
The female grunt rolls her eyes. "Yeah, yeah, whatever bitch." She leaves Giovanni's office.
The male grunt sticks his tongue out at Cassidy before leaving Giovanni's office as well.
Giovanni starts going through the files for any potential partners for Cassidy. "I might have found you two matches."
"Oh really now?" Cassidy says.
Giovanni turns on the intercom. "Butch and Mondo, report to my office!"
A few seconds have passed, Butch and Mondo enter Giovanni's office.
"Yes, sir?" Butch asked.
Giovanni introduces Butch and Mondo to Cassidy. "Cassidy, say hello to Butch and Mondo. Your two new partners."
Cassidy starts looking at Butch and Mondo. "Alright, you two better not get in my way. I'm not gonna carry you guys unlike my previous partners and you both better be good. And you!" Cassidy points at Mondo. "You look like a kid with that baby face."
Butch flexes his muscles and smirks. "I'm the best you'll ever get!"
"'Kid?' 'Baby face?' Come up with something new, carrot head, then we'll talk." Mondo flicks Cassidy's face.
Cassidy nods in respect from the flick. "I like both of you all's attitudes."
The flashback cuts to a montage of the Team Rocket trio getting a long and successfully stealing Pokémon together with Mondo narrating through the montage.
"Actually, getting together wasn't so bad after all. We actually stole Pokémon together and we didn't fail at our missions or anything, we got along so well. What happened to that?"
The montage cuts to the Team Rocket trio breaking into the Viridian City Pokémon Center and then getting electrocuted hard by Meowth and the help of Jessie peddling the burnt bike.
"So the amount of times we failed to capture that twerpette's Meowth is the reason for our downfall…" Cassidy confirmed.
Butch and Mondo both nod in agreement.
Cassidy sighs. "I see… During the past we were always successful in stealing people's Pokémon, we were like on top of the world and on the road to become one of greatest Team Rocket trios of all time."
"Let's just stop trying to steal that damn Meowth then." Butch suggested.
"But it's fun chasing the twerps around." Mondo says.
"Mondo is right, plus the twerp's Meowth can talk! No Pokémon has the capability of doing that, it's really rare!" Cassidy explained.
Butch groans in annoyance. "Fine."
Cassidy looks at the darkness of the night sky. "Time to sleep."
Butch nods. "Yeah, I've been tired all day."
The Team Rocket trio fell face first on the ground and went to sleep. It cuts to day, the gang, Team Rocket, and their Pokémon are all up and calling each other's names.
Jessie continues shouting for her Pokémon. "Meowth! Squirtle!"
Domino follows up with her yell. "Bulbasaur!"
So does James. "Charmander! Pikachu!"
It cuts to the Team Rocket trio's side, shouting for their Pokémon as well.
"Rattata!" Cassidy shouted.
"Mankey!" Butch follows up.
"Cubone!" So does Mondo.
It cuts to the Pokémon side, shouting for their trainers.
"Squirtle!"
("Jessie!")
"Bulbasaur!"
("Domino!")
"Rattata!"
("Cassidy!")
"Charmander?"
("James?")
"Pika. Pikachu."
("Come on Jimmy. You've gotta be here.")
"Mankey, Mankey…"
("Damn it, Buffy..")
"Cubone. Cubone. Cubone…"
("Mondo. Mondo. Mondo…)
"Jessie! Hey, all of you! Where are ya?!" Meowth shouted.
The bush starts rattling, which catches all the Pokémon's attention.
Pikachu groans in annoyance. "Pikachu…"
("Not again…")
"Bulbasaur?"
("What is it this time?")
A pink Pokémon pops up in the bushes and approaches the Pokémon. It appears to be the same Pokémon from earlier that was watching the gang behind a tree.
"Squirtle?"
("A Slowpoke?")
Slowpoke greets the Pokémon. "Slow…poke…?"
("Hello to you all… Can I join this group…?")
"Hey nitwit, help us out here!" Meowth demanded.
"Bulbasaur?"
("Please?")
"Slow…poke… Slow…poke?"
("What… do… you… need?")
"Have you seen three idiots? One with a pink hat, one with blonde hair, and one with blue hair with sunglasses?" Meowth asked.
"…Sloooowpoke! Slowpoke."
(…Ohhhh! I have.")
Slowpoke starts leading the Pokémon to a path where the gang might be.
"Bulbasaur!"
("Yes!")
Mankey sighs in relief. "Mankey. Mankey."
("Good grief. Finally.")
All the Pokémon started following Slowpoke while it was leading them to the gang. Speaking of them, it cuts to them still looking for their Pokémon.
"If I was a Pokémon, where would I be?" Jessie asked.
"Pretty much looking for my lost trainer right now…" Domino answered.
"We gotta focus more on finding them guys, come on!" James says.
A nearby bush starts rattling, which immediately got the gang's attention.
James raised an eyebrow. "Huh?"
"Oh, could it be a Pokémon, maybe!" Domino suggested.
"I hope it is…" Jessie says.
"I wonder what it is or is it even a Pokémon?" Domino thought.
Slowpoke peaks out of its head from the bush and reveals itself to the gang.
James gasps. "A Slowpoke!"
All the other Pokémon reveal themselves behind Slowpoke as the gang all gasps in happiness.
"Our Pokemon!" Jessie shouted.
Meowth and Squirtle run over to Jessie to hug her as they do and Jessie hugs back. Pikachu electrocutes James with affection as Charmander runs over to James as he slowly hugs back in pain. Bulbasaur then hugs Domino as she hugs back. Team Rocket's Pokémon just looks on.
Jessie notices the three Pokémon. "Wait a minute, isn't that Team Rocket's Pokémon?"
Meowth nods. "Yeah, they are."
"Why are they here?" Domino asked.
Jessie shrugs. "I don't know."
Jessie recalls Squirtle, Domino recalls Bulbasaur, and James recalls Pikachu and Charmander back in their Poké Balls.
"They got lost with me, duh. They're pretty bad, but sad Pokémon. I feel for 'em." Meowth says.
"Well…" Jessie turns her attention to Slowpoke. "Thanks Slowpoke!"
Out of nowhere, a Shellder pops out from the bushes and bites Slowpoke's tail. Which shocks the gang.
"Slow…?" Slowpoke starts glowing white. The Pokémon starts getting much taller and starts standing. The white fades away as the Shellder that bit Slowpoke's tail is now a gray, spiral shell with darker gray spots and small, triangular eyes near the base. "Bro!"
Domino's mouth is open in delight. "Slowpoke just evolved into Slowbro!"
Jessie pulls out her Pokédex but is met with an unfortunate message.
"No service, Pokédex inaccessible."
"Oh right. We're lost on an island… So I'm assuming that Shellder biting Slowpoke's tail made it evolve!" Jessie now pulls out an empty Poké Ball. "Alright Slowbro-"
Domino pushes Jessie aside, with Poké Ball in hand, interrupting her sentence. "Excuse me, Slowbro is part water-type, which means I'm catching it! Besides, you already have enough water-types!"
"Hold on wait a minute, I have less Pokémon than both of you, I say I should catch it!" James argued.
"Alright, knock it all of you!" Meowth shouted. "I have a way that we can settle this. All three of you toss a Poké Ball at it and let Slowbro decide who it wants to go to."
The gang all look at each other. "Deal."
Meowth looks at his trainer. "Jess, you start."
"Come on, Slowbro, let me capture you!" Jessie throws her empty Poké Ball at Slowbro.
Slowbro gets hit by the Poké Ball and goes in. The Poké Ball starts shaking with everyone waiting. Unfortunately for Jessie, Slowbro breaks out at the second shake.
Jessie falls down in disbelief. "Aww!"
"And Slowbro rejects Jessie!" Meowth turns to Domino. "Your turn, Domino."
Domino turns to Jessie. "Slowbro knows you already had enough water-types for one day!" Then she focuses on Slowbro. "Alright Slowbro, come to me, a water-type expert!" Domino tosses her empty Poké Ball at the Slowbro.
The Poké Ball hits Slowbro and the Pokémon goes in as the Poké Ball starts wiggling. Unfortunately for Domino, Slowbro breaks out at the third shake.
"NO!" Domino said in disbelief.
James clutches his fist together. "Which means Slowbro wants to come with me!"
"Slow your roll, Jimmy. There's a chance Slowbro can reject all three of ya!" Meowth says with a smirk.
James pulls out an empty Poké Ball and throws it at the Slowbro. The Poké Ball hits Slowbro and the Pokémon goes in as the Poké Ball starts shaking and after a couple of seconds of shaking, it stops and clicks. Signaling a successful catch.
"I caught a Slowbro!" James poses as he picks up the Poké Ball and puts it in his pocket.
After the catch, the gang can hear footsteps nearby and the Team Rocket trio arrives and sees their Pokémon with the gang.
"NOW YOU'RE TRYING TO STEAL OUR POKÉMON?!" Cassidy yelled.
"IT'S NOT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE!" James yelled back.
"YEAH IT'S NOT!" Jessie added.
"PLEASE, YOU GOT IT ALL WRONG!" Domino also added.
"MANKEY, DO THE HARDEST PUNCH YOU CAN BLAST THEM OFF!" Butch commended.
Jessie, James, Meowth, and Domino all start hugging each other in fear as Mankey does one powerful punch to send the gang blasting off. Ding! Team Rocket's Pokémon tackle their trainers with so much love and Team Rocket gives them love back. It cuts to the gang all landing on the beach again. The gang all poked their heads out of the sand.
Domino holds her head. "Ugh… my head."
The gang notices a beach crowd looking at them weirdly, since they fell from the sky and buildings too.
"PEOPLE, BUILDINGS?!" The gang said in shock.
"Well, it looks like Team Rocket did them a favor by blasting off our heroes from the island as the gang all landed on what looks like a shore of some town. What's next for the gang? Find out next time!"