Reuniting With Team Rocket/Meeting and Freeing Satsuki and Mei and Recruiting the Fearsome Four

*(Later that same night, it started raining, and at the Gangreen Gang's hideout, in the form of a big shed-like house in an abandoned junkyard, Team Rocket was inside, with Jessie and James dressed in their pajamas and sleeping silently in deep sadness and guilt, for they've seen the Gangreen Gang killed by the car running them down in front of their own eyes, and even as they saw the car coming at their friends, Team Rocket even noticed too late that the Gangreen Gang, earlier, was drunk. Jessie is wearing a black sleeveless short silk nightgown with black lace. And James is wearing a white short-sleeved pajama shirt, black and white checkered long pajama pants, and gray sleep socks. As they slept, they tossed and turned, whimpering softly a bit in fear, visioning the same car that ran down their friends at the docks. Then after they fearfully whimpered a bit some more, they then saw Negaduck and Puppetmon push the car right at their view, and as soon as the car connected to their view, they snapped awake with a frightened gasp, and they panted softly a bit, even sweating a bit. Then the three calmly sobbed a bit)*

Meowth: (Crying softly and calmly) Did you have the same traumatic dream like I did?

Jessie: (Crying softly and calmly, clutching her hair) Yes. *(Sniffles, sobs)* None of us can't believe that they're gone....

James: (Crying softly and calmly) What we'd give to have them back again....

Team Rocket: (Crying softly and calmly) Gangreen Gang, please forgive us for not saving you on time....

*(Then, from behind them as the trio sobbed calmly some more, some shadowy figures walked up to them. Then five familiar wet hands gently reached out and touched Team Rocket's own shoulders in comfort. Feeling the wet touches, Team Rocket stopped crying calmly slowly and got confused as they blinked their tears away. Sure enough, right behind them, the figures are none other than the Gangreen Gang, still soaking wet from not just the river at the docks, but also from the rain)*

Gangreen Gang: (Soothingly) Hey....

*(Confused even more, Team Rocket got speechless at first, but then Ace and Snake spoke up)*

Ace: Apology accepted.

Snake: You did what you couldssss to help usssss, but....

Ace: None of us expected it to happen that fast.

*(Turning around, Team Rocket finally saw the Gangreen Gang and gaped in surprise)*

Gangreen Gang: (Happily waving hello) Hey.

*(A short pause, then Team Rocket immediately freaked out, screaming loudly a bit like banshees, startling the Gangreen Gang to the five's surprise. Then just when the freaked out and panicking Team Rocket was gonna run, the Gangreen Gang quickly restrained them, trying to calm them)*

Ace: (Shushing them harshly) Guys, it *is* us!

Arturo: Ay-ay-ay, calm down!

James: The Ghosts of the Gangreen Gang!

*(Then Team Rocket broke free of the Gangreen Gang's grips and rushed out to their house's family room in a panic as the Gangreen Gang followed them in there, trying to calm them)*

Team Rocket: (Being chased around by the Gangreen Gang) Stay away, Ghosts!

Jessie: Go away!

Meowth: Don't hurt or haunt us with your wrath!

Billy: Guys, wait!

*(Grubber blew a brief raspberry in annoyance)*

Ace: Stop it, guys! Just come here!

*(Rushing up to their tool kit, Team Rocket quickly pulled out a ratchet set, oil can, and hood ornament to try and defend themselves with them)*

Ace: (Aghast) Really?

Jessie: Yeah, really! Instead, take our nine piece ratchet set!

*(She throws the ratchet set at the Gangreen Gang, who dodged it. Next, James took his turn with the oil can)*

James: Or better yet, take our oil can! We have plenty more of those along with more ratchet sets!

*(He throws the oil can at the Gangreen Gang, but again, the five dodged as they approached Team Rocket, still trying to calm them. Then Meowth finally got ready to throw the hood ornament)*

Meowth: And don't go away without our Rolls-Royce hood ornament!

*(He bangs the hood ornament on Snake's head and then threw it at the rest of the Gangreen Gang, who also dodged it)*

Snake: Ouch!

*(Recovering, Snake rubbed the top of his head a bit in annoyance)*

Snake: Wassss that really necccesssary?!

Team Rocket: You darn right!

James: (Grabbing a wooden holy cross hanging on the wall and held it out) The Lord will protect us from your evil hauntings!

*(Having enough in annoyance, Ace finally snatched away the cross, panicking Team Rocket even more and after he quickly hung the cross gently back on the wall out of respect since that is the holy cross, Ace then proceeded to help the rest of the Gangreen Gang grab Team Rocket and pin them down on a nearby couch to try and calm them)*

Ace: Guys, listen and relax!

*(But Team Rocket continued to squirm in a panic, trying to break free)*

Gangreen Gang: (Shouting) RELAX!!

*(Finally stopping, Team Rocket's lips were then gagged by Ace's hands and Billy's hand to keep them quiet. Then Ace explained away calmly with his gang)*

Ace: Listen, we're not dead anymore.

Snake: Sssso keep quiet and lissssten to ussss.

Arturo: And when Ace and Billy take their hands away from your mouths....

Billy: You gonna be quiet and listen, right?

*(Grubber gave a soft questioning raspberry as well. Team Rocket, still looking a bit panicked, nods calmly, making a bit of muffled groaning due to being gagged by Ace and Billy's hands. Then Ace and Billy removed their hands from Team Rocket's lips)*

Gangreen Gang: Okay.

*(But then just when Ace was about to speak, Team Rocket almost screamed loudly in a panic again with Meowth grabbing a nearby stool to hit the Gangreen Gang, until the Gangreen Gang pinned them down again to calm them again)*

Ace: Hey! What did we say?!

*(Then pulling out their Watches of Life from underneath their shirt's neck collars, the Gangreen Gang decided to prove it to Team Rocket)*

Ace: Look! These are our Watches of Life!

Snake: Ssstraight from Heaven, literally!

Meowth: (Skeptically at first) Oh, right!

James: (Skeptically at first) Don't lie to us!

Jessie: (Skeptically at first) Like you're gonna flatter with your wat...!

*(Then they stopped immediately and got confused)*

Team Rocket: Wait, Watches of Life from Heaven?

Ace: Duh!

Billy: Why else was we alive again?

Arturo: We were given a second chance of life.

*(Grubber blew some raspberries, confusing Team Rocket even more. As soon as he's done, Ace translated)*

Ace: He said, "The Head Fairy Angels of Heaven named Tinker Bell and the Blue Fairy realized our death wasn't ready at this moment, so they gave us another chance."

Team Rocket: (Looking at the Watches of Life) Prove it, please.

*(The Gangreen Gang then opened their Watches of Life and sure enough, they spoke through it to the Blue Fairy and Tink)*

Ace: Tink, Blue, we need your help.

Arturo: We need to prove to them....

Blue Fairy: (Voice-over, agreeing in approval) Of course.

Tink: (Voice-over, agreeing in approval) Like we said, we know everything in Heaven.

*(Surprised upon hearing the two Fairy Angels' voices coming from the Gangreen Gang's own Watches of Life, Team Rocket got speechless)*

Blue Fairy: (Voice-over) Rest assured, Team Rocket, what they are saying is the honest-to-God truth.

Tink: (Voice-over) We blessed them with another chance because they deserved it by choice.

Blue Fairy: (Voice-over) And in order to earn that chance again, they need to perform one special good deed on Earth.

Tink: (Voice-over) And if they fail by dying again from any of these Watches of Life dying first, then their souls will end being condemned to Hell for eternity.

*(Comprehending this silently, Team Rocket, after hearing Tink and the Blue Fairy, looked at the Gangreen Gang, realization slowly sinking in)*

Blue Fairy and Tink: (Voice-over) And we can sense you three are realizing that now.

Gangreen Gang: (To Tink and the Blue Fairy) Yep, and thanks.

Blue Fairy and Tink: (Voice-over) You're welcome, and God bless.

Gangreen Gang: (Nods) God bless.

*(Then the Gangreen Gang ended the contact by closing their own Watches of Life and tucking them back into their own shirt's neck rims)*

Ace: So, now, do you still think we're ghosts?

Team Rocket: (Calmly answering in realization) Not anymore....

Gangreen Gang: Yep!

Ace: (Nods) Right.

Meowth: My literal God....

*(He drops the stool and then he, Jessie, and James slowly turned their speechless reaction to calm amazement and calm emotion)*

Team Rocket: It is, indeed, you guys.

Jessie: (Looking like she's gonna cry again in happiness) And to think before that we saw the car at the docks by the river....

James: (Looking like he's gonna cry again in happiness) Running you five down like bowling pins....

Meowth: (Looking like he's gonna cry again in happiness) And your lifeless bodies flying through the air and then disappearing into the river with the car.

Ace: (Reassuringly in comfort) Hey, hey, relax.

Snake: (Agreeing) What mattersss issss that we're here again.

*(Then excited, happy, and composed by now, Team Rocket happily lunged at the Gangreen Gang, giving them a tight bear group hug)*

James: (Excitedly) You darn right that's what matters!

*(They fall off the couch as the bear group hug from Team Rocket continued)*

Jessie: We really missed you when we thought you kicked the bucket good!

Meowth: Together again!

Team Rocket: Best friends to the end!

*(The Gangreen Gang gently ended the bear group hug)*

Gangreen Gang: Exactly!

James: So, if we wanna start over and make a business of your own, we can just go under and escape to the Himalayas!

Gangreen Gang: (Aghast) The Himalayas?

James: Yeah!

Jessie: Just so Negaduck won't know you're alive again.

Ace: But here, our operation got bigger and bigger, and then Negaduck had the selfish murderous audacity to refuse to share and killed me and my gang for that.

Jessie: Hence why we gotta go deep for the Himalayas.

Meowth: In fact, the Himalayas got some things like New Orleans does; Gambling, races....

Ace: But it ain't like America, the Land of Opportunity and Freedom.

Jessie: Fair point, but we could try it.

Meowth: We could settle in Tibet, which is in the Himalayas. *(Playfully winks)* You know, "To bet?"

*(He chuckles a bit)*

Meowth: (Composing himself) I crack myself up.

James: We could also buy us a few llamas, a couple of mountain goats, open a track of our own....

Ace: It ain't gonna happen.

Jessie: Yeah, I guess it's too pricey for Tibet and the Himalayas.

Ace: No, I meant we're *not* going deep or to Tibet or the Himalayas, period!

Team Rocket: (Confused at first) What?

Snake: (Exasperated) Figuresssss it out from what Accce is telling you.

*(Realizing, Team Rocket got reluctant)*

Team Rocket: You're not seriously...?

Ace: Yep! Our special good deed is getting even with Negaduck, secretly, so he'll never know my gang and I are alive again.

Billy: He'll never know what will hit him.

Arturo: But first, we need to know what he and Puppetmon have up their sneaky sleeves....

Meowth: Yeah, a gun of their own to shoot us with.

Ace: Relax, Meowth. As long as our Watches of Life are still ticking, we ain't kickin' the bucket from any mere gunshot wound.

*(Seeing that Ace made a fair point that he and the rest of the Gangreen Gang won't die from any wounds or injuries due to their own Watches of Life still ticking and keeping them alive, Team Rocket contemplated a bit, not wanting to argue on that)*

Team Rocket: Fair point on that.

Meowth: But seriously, do you really think secret vengeance against Negaduck over him killing you by running him out of business is a good deed?

Billy: Duh, we're certain.

Ace: And when the time is right, we're gonna expose him and Puppetmon's scapegoating crimes that sent us to jail earlier, our names cleared, we'll live the rich life, and as for Negaduck and Puppetmon, they are gonna suffer slowly in jail, like how they tried to do that to us.

Snake: And it would comessss asssssss no sssssurprissssse that thossssse two dodoheadssss will beg for mercccccy in prisssson.

Ace: Fair point, Snake.

James: Well, *we're* begging you.

Jessie: You definitely have no idea what you're up against.

Meowth: Besides, Negaduck's got thugs, some of them with muscles....

Gangreen Gang: (Casually while Ace picks a nearby empty soda can up) We know that.

James: Knives and guns....

Gangreen Gang: (Casually while Ace tightly crushes the can) Again, we know that.

Jessie: And he's also got two monsters in his basement.

James and Meowth: From what we heard.

Gangreen Gang: (Casually at first while Ace discards the crushed can by throwing into a nearby trashcan) Again, we.... *(Realizes something)* Wait, what?

Ace: "Two monsters in his basement?"

Team Rocket: Yep.

Meowth: And they even feed them.

Ace: (Pondering) Two monsters....

Jessie: That's what we just said!

Team Rocket: Two monsters!

*(After pondering a bit, the Gangreen Gang looked at each other)*

Arturo: Something tells us we have to go investigate these two *monstruos*.

*(Hearing him say that, Team Rocket got aghast)*

Team Rocket: What?!

Meowth: You're seriously...?!

Ace: What other choice do we have, guys?

*(Hearing this is a good point, Team Rocket reluctantly gave in)*

Team Rocket: (Sighs in defeat reluctantly) All right.

Meowth: Let's go see who Negaduck's two monsters are.

*(Later that same night again as the rain already finished, Team Rocket, in their daytime clothes again, and the Gangreen Gang, all dried and cleaned again, left their hangout and arrived at the now closed casino. As they looked for a way to sneak in, they suddenly spot some figures approaching nearby via their shadows from behind a wall next to the ship's spot they're currently at. Realizing in silent shock that the shadows are approaching them, the Gangreen Gang grabbed Team Rocket and were about to get ready to attack and/or retreat when they realized, to their surprise, that the figures, who also noticed them, are actually none other than....)*

Fearsome Four: (Gasps, then whispering in shock) The Gangreen Gang?!

Gangreen Gang: (Whispering in relief, releasing Team Rocket) That's us.

Team Rocket: (Whispering flatly, grabbing and quieting the Fearsome Four quickly just when they freaked out) And we've been through this already.

Meowth: (Whispering) They ain't dead anymore.

Jessie: (Whispering) And they're definitely not ghosts.

*(Then they reached a nearby walk-in grated tunnel and after Billy quietly opened the grated door, they go inside, with Billy entering last and quietly closing the grated door from behind. As soon as they're inside and hidden, Team Rocket released the Fearsome Four, as well as ungag their lips and beaks from their grips and then the Fearsome Four got surprised again, calming their attempted freakout, unlike how Team Rocket did when they reunited with the Gangreen Gang earlier)*

Megavolt: (Almost loudly at first) We thou...?

*(Everyone shushed him, and realizing, Megavolt whispered)*

Megavolt: (Whispering) We thought you five kicked the bucket at the docks?

Ace: (Whispering, shrugs casually) Well, we didn't.

Bushroot: (Whispering) But how did you come back from the dead suddenly?

*(Later, as they trekked through the grated tunnel some more, all was explained to the Fearsome Four, who was calmly amazed)*

Quackerjack: (Whispering in amazement) Wow, that sure explains it all.

Liquidator: (Whispering) I'll say. 8 out of 10 bodily experts say that anybody with near-death experiences do briefly go to Heaven, Hell, or in-between and by choice, with all three areas deciding whether or not their times aren't up yet.

Megavolt: (Whispering) I guess you five could consider yourselves lucky Heaven gave you another chance.

Bushroot: (Whispering) But question; Are you really sure getting even with Negaduck and putting him and Puppetmon out of business and in jail for their crimes against you is a true good deed?

Ace: (Whispering) We're positive it is.

Arturo: (Whispering) Never doubt our prerogatives for another chance of life.

*(Hesitant a bit like Team Rocket at first, the Fearsome Four contemplated. Then the Gangreen Gang and Team Rocket spoke up)*

Meowth: (Whispering) Well, if you want to stay out of it and cover for us, you may.

Jessie and James: (Whispering) Not squeal on us.

Ace: (Whispering) It's your choice.

Gangreen Gang except Ace: (Whispering) Yeah. (Yessss.)

Ace: (Whispering) And for the record, we know *and* believe, for a fact, that you four didn't want *any* part of our murders. *(Whispering while correcting himself)* Oh! I mean, our *attempted* murders.

*(Then the Gangreen Gang and Team Rocket continued on while the Fearsome Four stayed behind at first. After they looked back towards the way out of the grated tunnel they're still in, the Fearsome Four, after thinking it over on what Team Rocket and the Gangreen Gang just said, got calmly determined and decided to do what's right)*

Fearsome Four: (Whispering, calling out to the Gangreen Gang and Team Rocket quietly) GUYS!

*(Hearing them, the Gangreen Gang and Team Rocket stopped and turned to them)*

Fearsome Four: (Whispering, calmly determined) We're in.

Megavolt: (Whispering) What Negaduck and Puppetmon did to you five was completely unforgivable.

Quackerjack: (Whispering) And if it's secret vengeance against them you want....

Liquidator: (Whispering) Then, by the grace of God, it's secret vengeance against them you shall get.

Bushroot: (Whispering) With *our* help along with Team Rocket's help.

*(Glad to hear that, the Gangreen Gang and Team Rocket nods in approval and then that that, they, including the Fearsome Four, trekked down the tunnel some more. As soon as they reached another closed grated door, the Fearsome Four went up to it)*

Megavolt: (Whispering) Here's where your "Two monsters" are.

*(Seeing Meowth itching himself frantically in a nervous way, Ace, Jessie, and even Quackerjack savagely grabs Meowth, making him stop)*

Ace, Jessie, and Quackerjack: (Whispering savagely) Stop it!

Jessie: (Whispering savagely) This is no time for your itching frantics!

Meowth: (Whispering angrily, upon being released) This is the perfect time for me to itch frantically!

*(Liquidator shushed them and then points out at something in the basement from the other side of the grated door they found)*

Liquidator: (Whispering) Look.

*(They looked, and saw a big pile of blankets and pillows with two sock hats sitting on top, resembling the shape of a two-headed monster, sitting on a seat nearby a barrel with a cage and a piece of bread sitting on it. Suspicious, the Gangreen Gang turned to the Fearsome Four and were about to ask away when Team Rocket, in a calm panic, spoke up quietly)*

Team Rocket: (Whispering) Okay, we found the monsters.

Jessie: (Whispering) Two-headed to be exact.

James: (Whispering) Now, let's go home!

Meowth: (Whispering) Who knows what they eat?

*(Just when Team Rocket was about to run away in a panic, Ace and Bushroot immediately grabbed them savagely, with Ace grabbing Meowth by his tail and Bushroot using his vines from his arms to grab Jessie and James by their bellies only and hanging them upside-down. Team Rocket was about to panic when Ace and Bushroot calmed them immediately in annoyance)*

Ace: (Whispering savagely) Relax!

Bushroot: (Whispering savagely) *We* grabbed you!

Meowth: (Whispering angrily, to Ace) Why'd you grab me by my tail like that?!

Ace: (Whispering casually) Because how else was I gonna grab ya with you running like that?

Bushroot: (Whispering reassuringly) You're just freaking out and overreacting because of what you briefly saw.

Quackerjack: (Whispering casually and reassuringly while Ace and Bushroot released Team Rocket, dropping them) It's normal.

Meowth: (Whispering, rubbing his freed tail for a bit) Even your hands are cold, too, Ace.

Ace: (Whispering) Because I'm a little scared as well.

Bushroot: (Whispering) Yet he, along with the Gangreen Gang, are suspicious because my other three friends and I know better of these quote, unquote monsters.

*(Team Rocket got up in confusion)*

Team Rocket: (Whispering) "Quote, unquote monsters?"

Gangreen Gang and Fearsome Four: (Whispering) Yeah. (Yessss.)

Megavolt: (Whispering, casually gestures to the grated door in a smug way) Look again, and here's your "Two monsters."

*(They looked again, and sure enough, they realized what the Fearsome Four meant by the Gangreen Gang's suspicions and what the Fearsome Four themselves really know of already, is that the "Two monsters" are actually none other than two human girls climbing out of the blanket pile. The first human girl is an 11 year old girl with short dark brown hair, gray blue eyes, and wearing a yellow sleeveless sundress with white straps, white socks, and blue shoes. And the last human girl is a 4 year old girl with short auburn chin-length hair tied in pigtails by two red bauble hairbands, gray blue eyes, and wearing a light pink sleeveless sundress with pink straps and yellow shoes. As soon as the girls emerged, the 11 year old girl took the bread piece, broke it in half and gives the other half to the 4 year old girl, who accepted and they ate them)*

Team Rocket: (Whispering in amazement) Well, I'll be, you're right....

Gangreen Gang: (Whispering) So, these "Monsters" are actually...?

Fearsome Four: (Whispering with a nod) Two human girls.

*(The Gangreen Gang and Team Rocket immediately got curious and suspicious)*

Team Rocket: (Whispering) But why would Negaduck and Puppetmon have two girls in the basement?

Gangreen Gang: (Whispering) And who are they?

*(Before the Fearsome Four was about to speak quietly to explain away, they heard the basement door from the other side of the grated door unlock and then open, cuing them and even the Gangreen Gang and Team Rocket to lay low silently and listen while hiding. Then sure enough in the basement itself, the girls noticed two figures coming in the basement by walking down the stairs past the door they unlocked and opened, revealing to be Negaduck and Puppetmon entering, and as soon as Negaduck and Puppetmon arrived with Negaduck smugly approaching the girls and cage, the girls asked in a hopeful and curious tone)*

11 year old girl and 4 year old girl: Hey, Negaduck.

11 year old girl: Can me and my sister go outside today?

4 year old girl: Please?

*(Negaduck pulls out a cigar and lights it as he casually replied)*

Negaduck: Sure you can, kids.

*(Then he eyes a rat inside the cage with a smug evil smirk while putting the cigar in his mouth)*

Negaduck: But first, you both talk to this rat.

*(The rat squeaked a bit in fear as Negaduck chuckled wickedly a bit as he puffed his cigar and blew smoke into its face)*

Puppetmon: (Shrugs while the rat sneezed from the smoke, sending it flying towards his own face) Well, if you want my opinion, Boss, I think Mighty Morris is gonna win the race.

*(Then the smoke hits Puppetmon's face and he begins coughing a bit)*

Puppetmon: (Coughing a bit) Yech! You should cut back on the cigars!

*(Then the 11 year old girl and 4 year old girl talked with the rat in the cage while they and Negaduck ignored Puppetmon, who recovers from his coughing)*

4 year old girl: Hi, Mr. Longtail.

*(Then as the 11 year old girl spoke next, she picks up another piece of bread and hands it to the rat, now revealed to be Mr. Longtail, and she and her 4 year old sister petted him a bit)*

11 year old girl: How are you today?

*(Then Mr. Longtail happily squeaked a bit, as if saying "Fine. And you?", to which the girls responded)*

11 year old girl: (Sighs with a shrug) We're fine, thank you.

4 year old girl: Will you be in the race tonight?

*(Mr. Longtail chittered a bit some more, answering the 4 year old girl's question. Then both girls got shocked)*

4 year old girl: (Gasps with her 11 year old sister) A sore foot?

11 year old girl: (Reassuringly) You shouldn't run for a while.

*(Then Mr. Longtail chittered a bit again, and the girls got sympathetic some more)*

11 year old girl: (Sympathetically) And Twizzle has a cold?

4 year old girl: (Agreeing) She should drink soup to get better.

*(Mr. Longtail chittered a bit in agreement, and then chittered a bit some more, as if explaining more, making the girls shocked some more)*

4 year old girl: (Sympathetically) Aw, and Squad Car has the flu?

11 year old girl: (Agreeing) Oh, my. He should get treatment for that.

*(Getting impatient, Negaduck spoke up in tranquil fury, making Mr. Longtail duck back into his cage in fear while the girls got concerned)*

Negaduck: (Impatiently in tranquil fury) Will you just hurry it up?!

11 year old girl and 4 year old girl: (Apologetically in realization) We're sorry.

*(Then they got to serious matters involving the race with Mr. Longtail)*

11 year old girl: So, who do you think will win?

4 year old girl: Tell us.

*(Mr. Longtail chittered a bit some more, and the girls got his answer)*

11 year old girl and 4 year old girl: Oh, okay.

4 year old girl: (To Mr. Longtail) Thank you.

11 year old girl: (To Negaduck) He said the Spotted Gray.

4 year old girl: (To Negaduck in agreement) He also said the Spotted Gray could definitely win.

*(Feeling satisfied with a smug evil smirk upon hearing that, Negaduck pretended to be grateful while shaking his cigar's ashes a bit into a nearby ashtray)*

Negaduck: (In mocking happiness) Aw, thank you for the answer.

*(Then he got serious as he approached Puppetmon and the stairs, taking the cage with Mr. Longtail in there)*

Negaduck: (Seriously) Puppetmon?

Puppetmon: Uh-huh?

Negaduck: Shift the odds on the Spotted Gray.

*(He almost went upstairs when he stopped nonchalantly and spoke to Puppetmon again)*

Negaduck: Oh! And have Thundermyte feed these kids.

Puppetmon: (In annoyance) Aw, do I have to?

Negaduck: (Exhaling smoke from his cigar into Puppetmon's face) Yes.

*(Puppetmon coughed a bit from the smoke)*

Puppetmon: (Coughing a bit) Again with the cigar! Where did you buy those?!

*(He coughs a bit some more as he and Negaduck went upstairs with Mr. Longtail's cage in tow. Hearing them leave, the two girls got up and went to the start of the stairs hopefully)*

11 year old girl: So, can we go outside now?

4 year old girl: Can we?

Negaduck: (In pretend reassurance) Not to worry. All in good time. So until then, just wait here.

4 year old girl: (Annoyed) Aw, you always say that.

11 year old girl: (Annoyed in agreement) Yet you never let us go outside after that.

4 year old girl: So, please, please let us....

*(The two villains got calmly surprised and perplexed at the girls' response, and finally, Negaduck cuts the 4 year old girl off with a smug response)*

Negaduck: (Smugly) Fine, if you want to be that way, then consider your next meal as just bread and water instead of cheddar cheese and water, as promised.

11 year old and 4 year old girl: (Shocked) What?! But...!

*(But as the girls ran up to the door, Negaduck and Puppetmon quickly left and Negaduck closed the door behind him and Puppetmon in front of the girls' faces and locking it again. Then after Negaduck and Puppetmon's footsteps were heard receding, silence descended. Then in calm anger, the girls slapped the door in a tranquil fury and an angry grunt and then went back downstairs in their basement prison. Once down there, the 4 year old girl sat in a nearby corner, facing the wall in an upward fetal position. Even the 11 year old girl sat down on the floor near the stairs, calmly frustrated as her little sister is. Then they both softly sighed sadly)*

4 year old girl: (Sadly) More bread and water as usual.

11 year old girl: (Sadly) Yeah, along with not going outside again.

*(Then they silently buried their heads in their own laps sadly and while the 4 year old girl sighed sadly, the 11 year old girl calmly tears up)*

11 year old girl: (Starting to calmly cry) It's just not fair....

*(Then she calmly and silently breaks down crying and buries her face in her arms above her knees. Seeing the whole thing, the Gangreen Gang's group got silently sympathetic, feeling sorry for what these two poor girls are going through right now, being treated like prisoners by Negaduck by being used as their betting pawn. Then the Gangreen Gang and Team Rocket turned to the Fearsome Four, and they quietly responded)*

Fearsome Four: (Whispering) Yep.

Liquidator: (Whispering) That's Negaduck's plan on how to earn more money for himself.

Megavolt: (Whispering) Through selfish bets by keeping these girls enslaved.

Bushroot: (Whispering) And what makes it sad even more....

Quackerjack: (Whispering) These girls are sisters, as you've just heard.

*(Looking back at the silently crying and huddled 11 year old girl and her silently huddled 4 year old sister with his group, Ace suddenly perked up, an idea striking him)*

Ace: (Whispering) Wait a minute....

*(The Gangreen Gang's group got confused by Ace's perked up behavior suddenly)*

Gangreen Gang's group except Ace: (Whispering in confusion) What is it?

Ace: (Whispering) An upgrade for our good deed mission.

*(Team Rocket and the Fearsome Four got shocked)*

Meowth: (Whispering) You're gonna use those...?!

Ace: (Whispering reassuringly) No, relax. We're not only rescuing them, but maybe, just maybe, while we can help them find their way home while they temporally stay with us....

*(Getting it, the Gangreen Gang's group liked the plan)*

Gangreen Gang's group except Ace: (Whispering, liking the idea) We can have their animal talking abilities to help us.

Ace: (Whispering) Exactly!

*(Then he quietly opens the grated door and he and the Gangreen Gang's group climbed out of the grated tunnel quietly into the basement down a pile of wooden crates. Once down there, they approached the two huddled girls, with the 11 year old girl still silently crying)*

Gangreen Gang's group: (Softly getting the girls' attention) Hey, there.

*(Hearing them, the girls jumped up with a gasp and turned around, seeing the Gangreen Gang's group. At first, they got scared as the 11 year old girl is still looking tearful)*

4 year old girl: Who are you?

11 year old girl: (Sniffles, still crying calmly) And what do you want?

*(Then Quackerjack approached the 11 year old girl soothingly, pulling his mint green handkerchief out)*

Quackerjack: (Soothingly) Hey, hey, hey. It's alright.

*(He holds out his handkerchief to the 11 year old girl as he gently placed his other hand on her right shoulder in comfort)*

Quackerjack: No need to cry anymore.

*(Hesitant at first, the 11 year old girl sobs softly. Even the 4 year old girl watched this in calm concern and suspicion. But Ace reassured both girls)*

Ace: Kid, it'll be fine for you and your sister.

Snake: Trusssst ussssss.

*(Feeling somewhat better by their honesty by now with her 4 year old sister, the 11 year old girl calmly accepted Quackerjack's handkerchief finally and after blowing her nose on it, she wipes her tears away with it with some sniffles as the 4 year old girl approached)*

Quackerjack: (Reassuringly) Okay?

11 year old girl: (Sniffles, then nods while finishing wiping her tears away, feeling a little better and fiddling Quackerjack's handkerchief for a bit before resting it on her lap) Mm-hm.

Gangreen Gang's group: Okay.

Ace: We couldn't help but overhear that you're both being held against your will, right?

11 year old girl and 4 year old girl: (Sadly agreeing, with the 11 year old girl still holding Quackerjack's handkerchief on her lap) You have no idea.

*(Then Grubber blew some raspberries, confusing the two girls)*

4 year old girl: Why is he blowing raspberries?

11 year old girl: Can't he talk?

Ace: No. He speaks through those raspberries.

11 year old girl and 4 year old girl: Then what did he say?

Ace: He said "And it strikes us that this is not the kind of place for you."

11 year old girl and 4 year old girl: Nope.

4 year old girl: What're your names?

Ace: Glad you asked. The name's Ace D. Copular, but just call me Ace.

Snake: My name issss Ssssanford D. Ingleberry, but everyone callsssss me Sssssnake, gotssss it?

11 year old girl and 4 year old girl: Yeah.

Arturo: My name is Li'l Arturo de la Guerra, or Li'l Arturo or just "Arturo" for short. And don't ever mess with me, okay? Okay.

11 year old girl and 4 year old girl: Sure.

Billy: Duh, my name is Big William W. Williams, but everybody calls me either "Big Billy" or just "Billy."

*(Then the 11 year old girl and her 4 year old sister looked at Grubber)*

11 year old girl: And what's his name?

*(Grubber blew some raspberries, and Ace translated)*

Ace: He said "My name is Grubber J. Gribberish, but you can just call me Grubber."

Gangreen Gang: And we consist the Gangreen Gang, thank you very much.

*(The girls got interested)*

11 year old girl and 4 year old girl: (To Grubber) Huh. *(To Team Rocket and the Fearsome Four)* And you guys are...?

Jessie: Jessie.

James: James.

Meowth: And Meowth.

Team Rocket: And we consist Team Rocket.

Bushroot: My name is Bushroot.

Liquidator: Liquidator's my name, advertising is my game.

Quackerjack: Quackerjack, and I also like to play games and toys.

Megavolt: And mine's Megavolt.

Fearsome Four: And we consist the Fearsome Four.

11 year old girl and 4 year old girl: (Slowly feeling comfortable around them) Pleased to meet you all.

Ace: Now, onto important matters.

Liquidator: Where do you live, and who are your parents?

*(That struck a core on the girls that the 4 year old girl got calmly glum while the 11 year old girl was calmly on the verge of crying again upon starting to tear up again. The Gangreen Gang's group noticed in confusion)*

Gangreen Gang's group: (Confused) What?

4 year old girl: (Sadly) We're actually orphans.

11 year old girl: (On the verge of crying again, fiddling Quackerjack's handkerchief again on her lap upon sensing herself getting teary-eyed again) Lost our parents at a young age.... *(Sniffles twice)* Lived on our own ever since.... *(Tries to fight her crying as tears flooded her eyes again)* Until two days ago, Negaduck c-c-came along and-and-and tricked us here...!

*(On "Tricked us here...!", her tears started streaming out of her eyes as she quickly buries her face in Quackerjack's handkerchief on her lap and softly cried hysterically as her 4 year old sister began to pat her back gently in comfort a bit. Calmly shocked upon hearing that, the Gangreen Gang's group got speechless and sympathetic even more as they listened to the 11 year old girl crying her eyes out even more)*

Gangreen Gang's group: (Calmly shocked) Huh.

Gangreen Gang: (To Team Rocket and the Fearsome Four, softly in calm shock) Orphans....

Team Rocket and Fearsome Four: (Agreeing softly in calm shock) Just like you guys....

*(Feeling sorry for the two girls even more, the Gangreen Gang pondered a bit, thinking of a way to cheer the girls up, especially the 11 year old girl, who is still sobbing uncontrollably. Then they perked up that Ace snapped his fingers in realization)*

Ace: Hey, I know!

*(The 11 year old girl slowly and calmly stopped her crying and calmly looked up from Quackerjack's handkerchief in tearful confusion and curiosity while her 4 year old sister got confused and curious)*

Ace: We can help you!

*(Perking up calmly upon hearing that, the girls got hopeful as the 11 year old girl blinked some tears from her eyes)*

11 year old girl and 4 year old girl: (Hopefully) Really?

Gangreen Gang's group: (Happily and reassuringly) Yeah!

Ace: So, until we help you find a new home and family, you can come live with us temporally.

Liquidator: Consider us your temporary custodians.

Jessie: And we definitely got a great place we live at than this dump.

*(Slowly getting happy upon hearing that, the girls got up and happily gave the Gangreen Gang's group a huge bear hug in gratitude, with the 11 year old girl still clutching Quackerjack's handkerchief in her right hand now. Surprised at first at the bear hug suddenly, the Gangreen Gang's group composed themselves and gently ended the hug)*

Ace: So, you'll come live with us until then?

11 year old girl and 4 year old girl: (Happily accepting the offer) Yes!

11 year old girl: (Happily hands Quackerjack his handkerchief back, which he happily accepted and puts away in his pants pocket) To be free at last!

4 year old girl: (Happily agreeing) Instead of being stuck here!

11 year old girl: (Points at her and her 4 year old sister's belongings laying nearby) And don't forget our belongings over there.

*(Then Billy lets the girls climb onto his back, piggyback-style, as the girls giggled a bit while the Gangreen Gang's group gathered the girls' belongings laying nearby, among them a stuffed Totoro doll)*

Billy: Oh, we almost forgot! What are your names?

11 year old girl: Satsuki Kusakabe.

4 year old girl: And mine's Mei Kusakabe. M-E-I, Mei, that is.

*(The Gangreen Gang's group gave an impressed smile)*

Gangreen Gang's group: Then nice to meet you, Mei and Satsuki Kusakabe.

*(The 11 year old girl and her 4 year old sister, now revealed to be Satsuki and Mei Kusakabe respectively, agreed)*

Satsuki and Mei: Same with us meeting you.

*(Then they climbed up to the grated tunnel with Billy still piggyback carrying Mei and Satsuki on his back. Then once at the grated tunnel entrance, Satsuki and Mei climbed off of Billy's back and went in with the Gangreen Gang's group)*

Bushroot: (Whispering) And if we're gonna get out of here, talk quietly like we're doing now.

Satsuki and Mei: (Whispering in agreement, getting it) Gotcha.

Mei: (Whispering excitedly) Anyway, is your place better than this dump?

Gangreen Gang's group: (Whispering) Heck, yeah. (yessss.)

Ace: (Whispering, closing the grated door from behind him, his group, Satsuki, and Mei upon entering the grated tunnel completely) You are going to love it; Canopy bed under the stars, open hearth, three square meals a day, radio, heater, white walls.

Arturo: (Whispering) *Si*-er-reno! *Nuestra casa es su casa*. You know, our house is your house.

Gangreen Gang's group, Satsuki, and Mei: (Whispering in agreement as they disappear into the grated tunnel) For now, that is.

*(Then with that, they escaped through the grated tunnel, with Satsuki and Mei's belongings in tow)*

***Coming up: After Puppetmon reports to Negaduck of Satsuki and Mei's sudden disappearance upon finding out the girls' said sudden mysterious disappearance, Negaduck orders him to rally their goons to go find them. Elsewhere, still unknown to Negaduck, Puppetmon, and their goons, the Gangreen Gang's group helps Satsuki and Mei get comfortable in their temporary new home with them in their hangout home in the junkyard via a bedtime story involving Robin Hood and getting the sisters ready for bed with a big day coming ahead of them, where it'll involve their first betting gig on a horse race with Satsuki and Mei's talking to animals ability's help.***