Getting the Couples Together/Merlock, Vanitas, and Negaduck’s Threat

*(In their room in the palace, Serena's group is crying with Serena's face buried in a pillow. Then Meowth's group, Stellaluna, and Meowzie spoke up, getting their attention and making them stop crying calmly and slowly upon noticing them at their balcony's curtain section)*

Meowth's group: Okay, this is ridiculous, Princesses.

Meowzie: You shouldn't waste tears on those boys.

Stellaluna: Let alone be angry at them and wrongfully accusing them.

Serena's group: (Angrily) Go away!

Kiki: (Angrily) Please!

Sora: (Angrily) We want to be alone!

*(Sora goes over to the curtain and was about to shut it when Stellaluna and Meowzie interjected through speech)*

Stellaluna and Meowzie: Listen!

*(Meowth then explained away)*

Meowth: You shouldn't blame Ash's group just because they hid us.

James: In fact, they planned of telling you and the residents here.

Jessie: Let alone when we saved their necks earlier.

Fidget: It's the honest-to-Allah truth.

*(Serena's group looked surprised upon hearing that, and lets them in)*

Serena: They really *were* planning on telling us?

Kiki: And *you* saved *their* lives earlier?

Jessie: Bingo! The boys love you enough to tell you eventually.

Sora: (Angrily) Well, they didn't have to lie to us.

*(Then she softened up along with Serena and Kiki)*

Sora: But then again.... They *did* save *us* before.

Serena: If what you're telling us about Ash's group and you guys are true....

Sora: Then what could we say to apologize to our fiancés for snapping at them?

Kiki: And wrongfully accusing them?

Fidget: (Pretending to ponder) Gee, I do not know.

James: (Pretending to shrug) And what can *we* say, girls?

Jessie: (Pretending to realize something) Well, there is one option you *can* do, Princesses.

Serena: (Confused) Are you suggesting that...?

Stellaluna: You break up?

Serena's group: (Dumbfounded) What?!

Stellaluna: Before you jump ahead, just listen to us and let us explain *before* you decide.

*(Serena's group looked at each other, and then back at Meowth's group, Meowzie, and Stellaluna with a shrug, giving in)*

Serena's group: (Shrugs) All right.

*(Glad to see Serena's group agreeing with Meowth's group, Stellaluna, and Meowzie turned to Meowth)*

Meowzie: (To Meowth) Tell them.

*(As Serena's group listened after he nods to Meowzie in agreement, Meowth, Jessie, James, Fidget, Meowzie, and Stellaluna then begin singing)*

Meowth: **Forget about those guys**

Fidget: **Forget about the way you fell into their eyes**

Stellaluna: **Forget about their charms**

*(James smiles playfully as he shows Ash's group's picture that he just found. Serena's group began to slowly soften up to the picture)*

James: **Forget about the way they held you in their arms**

Meowth: **Walking on air's obnoxious**

Meowzie: **The thrills**

Meowth: **The chills**

Meowth and Meowzie: **Will make you nauseous**

Fidget: **And you'll never get enough**

Meowth's group, Meowzie, and Stellaluna: **Just forget about love**

*(Serena's group walked away to the vanity, lost in thought. Seeing the heroes at their room's doorway, Serena's group was about to speak in confusion when Meowzie and Fidget sang)*

Meowzie: **Forget about romance**

Fidget: **Forget about the way your heart begins to dance**

*(He knocked a vase with the crystal flower, almost making it fall, but Serena caught it in the nick of time. Then they see Crash's group conjure up images of Ash's group in the mirror)*

Ash's group's images: (Sadly) Serena. (Sora.) (Kiki.)

*(Seeing their sad reactions as the images vanish, Serena's group got concerned)*

Jessie: **Then you feel the blush**

*(Fidget grabs the crystal flower, flew out onto the balcony, and landed on a tree below, making Serena's group and the heroes run out after him. When they arrived, Serena's group saw the sad Ash's group by the lake)*

Jessie: **When they're spouting out some sentimental mush**

Team Rocket and Meowzie: **Love really is revolting**

Heroes except Serena's group, Team Rocket, and Meowzie: **It's even worse than when you're molting**

Heroes: (Winks at Serena's group) **Enough of this fluff**

**Just forget about love**

*(Serena's group, now realizing why they're doing this, smiled lovingly at Ash's group. Then they joined in the song)*

Serena: **We had almost forgotten the way it felt**

Sora: **When they held out their hands for ours**

Kiki: **Our hearts all a-flutter**

Tai: **Oh, how I shudder**

Serena's group: **The first time we kissed**

Darkwing and Gosalyn: **It won't be missed**

*(Then they leave the room to go help Serena's group get themselves ready to see Ash's group)*

Volteer and Haruhiko: **Forget about their touch**

Serena's group: **We can't forget about their touch**

Meowth: **In the scheme of things**

**It doesn't matter much**

Serena's group: **It matters so much**

*(As the heroes followed, Serena's group ran downstairs)*

Fearsome Four: **But you're better on your own**

Grace and Toshiko: **A meal becomes a banquet**

**When you eat alone**

*(As they arrived downstairs, Serena's group freshened themselves up in front a vanity mirror while humming a bit. Then they resumed racing down)*

Heroes: **Love's filled with compromises**

Crash's group: **And don't you hate those big surprises?**

*(Outside, Serena's group smiled as they let Coco fly them in the air in her Gummi Ship)*

Serena's group: **A cozy rendezvous**

Heroes except Serena's group: **Oh, please**

*(Sombra used his magic to send out two small balls of light. They formed around a smiling Serena's group)*

Serena's group: **Candlelight for two**

Meowth: **You're bluffing**

Serena's group: **Look, you're calling our bluff**

Heroes: **We can't**

**(Just)**

**Forget about love**

*(Soon the two balls of lights departed Serena's group and formed around Ash's group, who then saw them. Then they looked up and sees Serena's group coming to them with smiles)*

Ash's group: Serena? (Sora?) (Kiki?) *(About to speak apologetically)* Look, please forgive us....

*(Serena's group shushed their lovers gently)*

Serena's group: It's okay.

Kiki: Apology accepted.

Serena and Sora: And we're sorry as well.

*(Serena's group then showed their families and friends, and Ash's group, realizing what's going on, smiled softly and then they and Serena's groups sang together)*

Serena's group: **We can't forget about our hearts**

Ash's group: **We can't forget about our hearts**

Serena's group: **And how it felt**

**To fall for you right from the start**

Ash's group: **We're still falling**

Serena's group: **Whatever we may do**

*(Serena's group laughed a bit as Kiki gently splashed Tombo with water in a playful way. Ash's group chuckled a bit as they playfully chased their girls, having a romantic game of hide-n'-seek)*

Ash's group: **Whatever we may do**

Serena's group: **You are here for us**

**And we'll be there for you**

*(Finally Ash's group playfully caught Serena's group. They smiled as Ash's group lifted their own respective lover in the air. As they continued singing, they begin dancing)*

Ash's group: **We'll be there**

Ash and Serena's groups: **To wish, to want, to wander**

**To find the sun**

**Through rain and thunder**

*(Nearby, the heroes smiled softly, watching this, glad to see their plan to get them back together came out a success)*

Ash's group: **A cozy rendezvous**

Serena's group: **Yes, please**

Ash's group: **Candlelight for two**

Meowth's group: (Winking at them with the heroes) **Oh, geez**

**Enough is enough**

Ash and Serena's groups: (Winking back) **We can't forget about love**

*(The song over, they walked up to the heroes with smiles)*

Ash and Serena's groups: Thank you.

Heroes: No problem.

*(Then just when they were gonna leave Ash and Serena's groups alone, Meowth and Fidget accidentally tripped on a step by the fountain and while they fell down, scraping Meowth's left elbow and Fidget's chin, they bumped into Megavolt and Quackerjack while falling down, making Megavolt and Quackerjack drop Megavolt's locket and Quackerjack's Mr. Banana Brain doll in the fountain, much to the heroes' concern)*

Heroes: (Overlapping in concern) Are you alright?

*(Meowth and Fidget groaned a bit in pain, not seeing their respective scraped elbow and chin yet)*

Meowth: That hurt!

Fidget: Yeah!

*(Then seeing Meowth's scraped elbow and Fidget's scraped chin, they reacted in shock calmly and then became calmly sad. Megavolt and Quackerjack, after they recovered as well, noticed their locket and Mr. Banana Brain doll in the fountain's water)*

Megavolt and Quackerjack: My locket! (Mr. Banana Brain!)

*(They pulled them out and then even Megavolt and Quackerjack slowly became calmly sad upon noticing Megavolt's picture ruined in his locket from the water and Quackerjack's Mr. Banana Brain doll all soaked and ruined. Seeing the four's sad reactions, Jessie, James, and even Bushroot and Liquidator became calmly sad as well, feeling sorry for them. Noticing, the heroes got confused and concerned)*

Grace: What's wrong, Meowth's group, Fearsome Four?

Volteer: It's just a scrape on the elbow.

Haruhiko: And a scraped chin.

Toshiko: As for the cuts, locket picture, and doll, just have Stellaluna, Meowzie, and Crash's....

*(Then they see Meowth's group, Megavolt, and Quackerjack slump down slowly to their knees sadly)*

Meowth: Fidget and I had a cut like that before.

Fidget: And they made it better in time.

Megavolt: And I had this locket to remember them by.

Quackerjack: Same with my Mr. Banana Brain doll for them.

*(Realizing what Megavolt and Quackerjack meant, Ash's gang felt sorry for the two)*

TK: (Realizing in sympathy) Ah, that's right.

*(The heroes got confused)*

Tawna: Who are "They" and "Them?"

Coco: And does it also have something to do with Megavolt and Quackerjack's parents?

Izzy: Come to think of it, you, Meowth's group, mentioned something earlier about "Losing you special ones."

Kari: And who are those "Special ones?"

Gatomon: We know you said you didn't want to talk about it, but....

*(Then Meowth's group, Megavolt, and Quackerjack, explained, gently cutting Gatomon off)*

Meowth's group: They're our families.

Megavolt and Quackerjack: And yes, as Ash's gang know already, mine and Quackerjack's (Megavolt's) parents.

*(The heroes calmly reacted in interest)*

Stellaluna and Meowzie: A memory?

Fidget and Meowth: (Nods sadly) Yeah.

Megavolt and Quackerjack: Obviously.

*(Meowth's group, Megavolt, and Quackerjack looked at Stellaluna and Meowzie)*

Meowth: You thought being abandoned as a kitten and young bat was bad enough?

Fidget: Well, our families died when we were little.

Quackerjack: While my parents died in separate years; My father from natural causes, and then my mother from pneumonia.

Megavolt: And my parents died the same similar way Quackie's did; My father from cancer, and then my mother from tuberculosis.

*(The heroes got shocked calmly)*

Honker: So, basically, you were orphans?

Gosalyn: Besides Megavolt and Quackerjack being orphans alongside Ash's gang since childhood?

Agumon: What happened to your families that made them die, Meowth's group?

*(Meowth's group sighed sadly and explained away)*

Meowth's group: Mysteriously murdered.

*(The heroes got calmly surprised and shocked to hear that)*

Tank: Harsh.

Tombo: And you had no idea who killed them?

*(Meowth's group sadly shook their heads no)*

Jessie: Afraid not.

Launchpad: (To Megavolt and Quackerjack) And what also led to your own parents dying as well?

Megavolt and Quackerjack: You wanna know?

*(The heroes nodded. Then Meowth's group explained away sadly)*

Meowth: Merlock's group came by our shared home in another town, claiming they needed recruits. But our families and us had a bad feeling they were no good, so, we told them to leave us.

Fidget: And politely declined the offer. At first, we thought they took the decline well. But.... *(Closes his eyes tightly and briefly, holding back a quiet sob)* We were wrong. *(Becomes calmly sadder)* We went out to go get some fruit, including strawberries, and when we returned with some.... *(Sniffles as he became teary-eyed)* They were already killed by some mysterious assailants.

Jessie: Eventually, we became broke and began wandering the streets, trying to earn money.

James: Then Merlock's group came along and again offered us a job with them, claiming that we could live the rich life again if we stayed here. *(Tears up)* Yet up until recently, *(Sobs)* we never realized they wanted us to do bad stuff for them.

Fidget: (Voice breaking) We never even realized up until our defeat by you that they lied about promising us a rich reward.

*(They shed their own tears, on the verge of crying)*

Meowth's group: (Starting to cry) Even to the extent of torturing and abusing us, physically, verbally, and psychologically.

*(They calmly break down crying and buried their faces in their legs and arms in a upward fetal position, despite Meowth still having his elbow scraped and Fidget still having his chin scraped. Feeling sorry for Meowth's group, the heroes were speechless and sympathetic, unsure on what to say at first)*

Megavolt: As for my parents, my father died from cancer in his lungs. Stage Four to be exact. *(Tears up)* Even the doctors couldn't do anything to help him. *(Sobs)* Then eventually, when my mother eventually died from tuberculosis, she bestowed this locket to remember her and my father by with this picture.

Quackerjack: (Tearing up) A year after my father's death by natural causes, *(Sniffles, shedding a tear)* my mother caught pneumonia from too much smoking. Even she couldn't be saved when the doctors tried to save her too. *(Sobs, shedding another tear)* But before she passed, she gave me this Mr. Banana Brain doll she made for me before she fell ill. And now....

Megavolt and Quackerjack: (Starting to cry) They're useless!

*(Megavolt and Quackerjack, too, broke down crying and burying their faces in their legs and arms in an upwards fetal position. Then while feeling sorry for the two mutants along with Meowth's group with the heroes, Stellaluna, Meowzie, Bushroot, Liquidator, Pikachu, Gabumon, Patamon, and Serena's group smiled softly, and began to gently pat Meowth's group, Megavolt, and Quackerjack's backs in comfort, getting their attention that they looked up with tears in their eyes and staining their cheeks)*

Ash: Sorry if we called you, Meowth's group, troublemakers and traitors before.

Tombo: And losers.

Matt: Yeah. We had no idea of your backstory.

Pikachu: (Reassuringly in a comforting tone in agreement) Pika.

Sora: You're not alone anymore.

Serena: You have us.

Stellaluna and Meowzie: And us.

*(The two looked down with a sad smile)*

Stellaluna: True Meowzie and I were abandoned when we were little.

Meowzie: But we truly do know what it's like to be alone up until a year ago.

Fidget: (Voice breaking) You do, girls?

*(Stellaluna and Meowzie nods. Then they and Serena's group started singing, comforting Meowth's group, Megavolt, and Quackerjack while doing so)*

Stellaluna: **It's hard to remember**

**Summer or winter**

Meowzie: **When she hasn't been there for me**

Stellaluna and Meowzie: **A friend and companion**

**I can always depend on**

**My mother**

**That's who I mean**

Serena: **I've taken for granted**

Sora: **Seeds that she's planted**

Kiki: **She's always behind everything**

Serena's group: **A teacher**

**A seeker**

**When both arms outreach her**

**My mother**

**That's who I mean**

Stellaluna and Meowzie: **Wish I could slow down the hands of time**

**Keep things the way they are**

Serena's group: **If she said so**

**I would give her the world**

**If I could**

Stellaluna, Meowzie, and Serena's group: **I would**

Serena's group: **My love and my laughter**

**From here ever after**

**Is all that she says that she needs**

Stellaluna and Meowzie: **A friend and companion**

**I can always depend on**

Stellaluna, Meowzie, and Serena's group: **My mother**

**That's who I mean**

**My mother**

**That's who I mean**

**That's who I mean**

*(The song over, the heroes noticed Meowth's group, Megavolt, and Quackerjack tear up even more calmly)*

Gabumon: (To Meowth's group, reassuringly) What they say is true.

Patamon: (Agreeing in a reassuring way) That's right.

Pikachu: (Nods in agreement, softly) Pi.

*(A short pause, then to the heroes' concern at first, Meowth's group, Megavolt, and Quackerjack, after becoming calmly emotional, hugged Meowzie, Stellaluna, Serena's group, and even Pikachu, Gabumon, Patamon, Bushroot, and Liquidator while crying their eyes out calmly. Then their concern turned to relief when Meowth's group slowly stopped crying and looked up, revealing that they're happy again, but with Meowth, Fidget, Megavolt, and Quackerjack smiling tearfully this time)*

Meowth, Fidget, Megavolt, and Quackerjack: (Crying calmly) Thanks, guys, Pikachu.

Jessie and James: (Crying calmly) Yeah, thanks.

Fidget: (Sniffles, crying calmly) First Ash's group saved us from your misunderstanding after we saved them....

Meowth: (Crying calmly) And the next thing we now know, we honestly never had anyone look out for us.

Fidget: (Crying calmly) Since our families....

Megavolt: (Crying calmly) You really know how to ease one's pain.

Quackerjack: (Crying calmly) Like professionals.

*(The four broke down crying calmly even more as they continue to hug Serena's group, Meowzie, Stellaluna, Pikachu, Bushroot, Liquidator, Gabumon, and Patamon, who hug back in comfort, while Jessie and James slowly stopped their crying calmly and wiping their tears away. Noticing Meowth and Fidget still crying calmly along with Megavolt and Quackerjack as they tried to compose themselves, Serena and Bushroot then pulled out her light blue handkerchief and green leaf handkerchief and Serena and Bushroot gently wiped Meowth and Fidget's tears away and Fidget's nose with theirs, and with Serena's handkerchief for Fidget's nose's case, with Pikachu gently patting Meowth's shoulder in comfort)*

Pikachu: (Comfortingly) Pika pika....

*(Megavolt and Quackerjack then pulled their respective light green handkerchief and mint green handkerchief, blew their noses on them, and wiped their tears away. Once that's finished, Meowth, Fidget, Megavolt, and Quackerjack felt better calmly)*

Serena and Bushroot: Better?

Meowth, Fidget, Megavolt, and Quackerjack: (Nods) Yeah.

*(Feeling better along with Meowth's group now, Megavolt and Quackerjack then puts their own handkerchiefs back in their own jumpsuit and pants pockets while Serena and Bushroot puts their respective handkerchief and leaf handkerchief away in Serena's pocket and one of Bushroot's small hip root knothole. Meanwhile near a wall, the guards are patrolling the palace. None of them saw seven familiar thieves and familiar henchmen climbing over the other side, dodging their side. Dijon, Demidevimon, Makuramon, and the thieves landed, but yelped as Negaduck, Shere Khan, Ruggedo, Bulba, Myotismon, Hunter J, and Splatter Phoenix landed on them from above. Then Dijon, Demidevimon, Makuramon, and the thieves recovered)*

Dijon and thieves: (Whispering) Owee! (Ow!)

Demidevimon: (Whispering) Watch where you're landing, you guys!

Makuramon: (Whispering) Yeah!

Dijon: (Whispering) That landing gave me quite a booboo.

Negaduck: (Whispering in sarcasm) Sorry.

Splatter Phoenix: (Whispering) At least you broke our fall.

Hunter J: (Whispering) Yep.

Bulba: (Whispering) Consider us lucky.

Shere Khan: (Whispering, aiming his claws from his hand at Dijon menacingly) And I might give you more than just a booboo if you don't stop whining constantly.

*(Nervous upon seeing that, Dijon gave in cheerfully, making Shere Khan retract his claws in a calm, satisfied, and smug way with an evil smirk)*

Dijon: (Whispering nervously) Oh, yes. Understood.

*(He quietly chuckles nervously a bit. Ruggedo then took out Merlock and Vanitas' black lamp and rubbed it, causing red smoke to come pouring out)*

Ruggedo: (Whispering) Merlock, Vanitas, we have arrived.

*(The red smoke got bigger as Merlock and Vanitas appeared in their normal forms)*

Merlock: (Whispering) We were wondering when we'd arrive finally.

*(Then noticing something in the garden, they go hide in some bushes and see Meowth's group with the heroes nearby)*

Vanitas: (Whispering) What's going on between them and Meowth's group?

Shere Khan: (Whispering nonchalantly) I wonder with everyone else.

*(They listen in. With the heroes, they watched Stellaluna and Meowzie prepare to heal Fidget and Meowth's respective chin and elbow while Crash's group just finished magically repairing Megavolt's picture in his locket and magically dried off Quackerjack's wet Mr. Banana Brain doll)*

Crash: So, basically, Stellaluna and Meowzie have magic and healing powers?

Heroes: Yeah.

Megavolt: Meowth even almost screamed like a banshee after Meowzie healed him for the first time.

Joe: While Stellaluna healed Fidget for the first time when that happened.

Meowth: (Shrugs) Well....

Quackerjack: (Gestures to Megavolt) Even you would panic that easily, Sparky.

Megavolt: (Angrily) Don't call me "Sparky!"

*(Stellaluna and Meowzie quieted them with their own hand and paw-like hand gesture and then they both sang her incantation a little quickly)*

Stellaluna and Meowzie: **Flower, gleam and glow**

**Let your power shine**

**Make the clock reverse**

**Bring back what once was mine**

**Heal what has been hurt**

**Change the Fates' design**

**Save what has been lost**

**Bring back what once was mine**

**What once was mine**

*(The healing spell over, Fidget and Meowth's respective chin and elbow are healed)*

Fidget and Meowth: Thanks.

*(Then Crash's group, after finishing using their magic to repair Megavolt's locket picture and Quackerjack's Mr. Banana Brain doll, hands those objects back to Megavolt and Quackerjack)*

Sombra: Here you are.

Gene: Good as new.

Megavolt and Quackerjack: (Happily accepting their locket and Mr. Banana Brain doll back respectively) Thanks.

Quackerjack: (To Mr. Banana Brain) You feel better, Mr. Banana Brain? *(In a high-pitched voice)* Never better, letter.

*(Meowth's group got surprised calmly)*

James: You actually interact with your doll?

Quackerjack: (To James, in his normal voice) Of course. Besides Megavolt, Mr. Banana Brain, too, is my best friend.

Jessie: (Getting it) So, likely, your imaginary friend?

Quackerjack and Jiji: (To Jessie, nods) Yep!

*(Then they see Meowth, Meowzie, Fidget, and Stellaluna staring at the starry night sky with soft smiles together. Noticing this, Megavolt and Jessie asked away playfully)*

Megavolt: (Playfully) You gonna let Cupid's arrows strike you?

Jessie: (Playfully) In love already?

*(Hearing him, Fidget, Stellaluna, Meowth, and Meowzie, upon blushing with soft smiles, spoke up)*

Fidget: Probably.

Stellaluna: I guess.

Meowth: And mind if the four of us have some privacy?

Meowzie: Some alone time?

*(The heroes nod and they back off. Once alone, Fidget, Stellaluna, Meowth, and Meowzie then sat down together)*

Meowth: Fidget and I are really glad to have met you.

Meowzie: Same with me and Stellaluna.

Fidget: You know how old romance poems can say "I feel like drowning in love by pools in your eyes?"

Stellaluna: (Nods) Yes. Do you think that this is what this is for us?

*(Meowth and Fidget then tried to think of something to say, then they got it)*

Fidget: (Nods) Of course.

Meowth: And, uh.... What you did for me and my group, Megavolt, and Quackerjack with Serena's group....

Fidget: As well with Pikachu, Bushroot, Liquidator, Gabumon, and Patamon's help....

Stellaluna and Meowzie: You're welcome.

Stellaluna: We're sure you and your group's families would've been happy for you.

Meowzie: Like they wanted.

Meowth: If they were here. And for the record, you both won't leave us, right?

Meowzie: Never.

Fidget: And you'll still have us?

Stellaluna: Yes.

*(Stellaluna and Meowzie then started singing)*

Meowzie: **I will always be with you**

**Makes no difference where**

**The road takes you to**

Stellaluna: **Even if we’re apart**

**And we’re joined at the heart**

**Though our moment may be gone**

Meowzie and Stellaluna: **You and I will still live on**

*(Feeling happy with Stellaluna and Meowzie, Fidget and Meowth got up as they started singing)*

Meowth: **I will always be with you**

**I’ll be by your side**

**Whatever you do**

Fidget: **Other memories may fade**

**But the ones that we made**

**Are eternal as a star**

Meowth and Fidget: **Now I’m part of who you are**

Meowth, Meowzie, Fidget, and Stellaluna: **And I’ll be there with you**

**In the sound of your laughter**

**I’ll be in the tears you cried**

Meowth and Fidget: **‘Cause the way you and I**

**Have touched one another**

Meowth, Meowzie, Fidget, and Stellaluna: **Doesn’t end with goodbye**

*(They then danced, ballroom-styled)*

Meowth and Fidget: **I will always be with you**

Meowth, Meowzie, Fidget, and Stellaluna: **Like a guardian angel**

**Constant and true**

Meowzie and Stellaluna: **When you’re lost in the night**

Meowth and Fidget: **Lost in the night**

Meowzie and Stellaluna: **And you can’t see the light**

Meowth and Fidget: **Can’t see the light**

Meowth, Meowzie, Fidget, and Stellaluna: **My love will see you through**

Meowth and Fidget: **I will always be there**

Meowzie and Stellaluna: **You’ll have me there**

Meowth, Meowzie, Fidget, and Stellaluna: **I will always be with you**

*(After the song ended, just when they were gonna kiss, bright lights appeared, interrupting the moment. Crash is seen with his family filming them)*

Crash: (Imitating a movie director) Okay, folks! Today's special is about two couples meeting and falling in love! You look great, Meowzie and Stellaluna! Look good for the camera, Meowth and Fidget!

*(Jessie, James, and even the Fearsome Four, Gabumon, Patamon, and Pikachu appeared in front of the camera annoyed)*

Gabumon and Patamon: Hey!

Quackerjack: Didn't you hear them say they want to be alone?!

*(Jessie then pushes Crash and his family away)*

Jessie: Show's over, Spielbergs!

Bushroot: The two couples want to be alone!

Liquidator: Spend some quality time!

Megavolt: So break it up!

Crash, Tawna, Mohawk, and Sabrina: (Sheepishly) Okay, okay!

Crash: We were just joking around!

Sabrina: No shame in joking around.

Tawna and Mohawk: Yeah.

*(Then Meowth turned to Pikachu)*

Meowth: Pikachu?

Pikachu: (Looks at Meowth curiously) Pika?

Meowth: (Nods in gratitude) Thanks.

Pikachu: (Happily nods a you're welcome) Pikachu!

Bushroot: (Pondering) And, uh, didn't you, Meowth, also just tell all of us that Negaduck hates being called "Negaduckie?"

Meowth: (Snickers a bit) Yeah, he totally hates that. He considers it "Too cute."

*(They and the heroes began chuckling a bit at this)*

Tai: (Chuckling a bit) That is definitely priceless!

Gomamon: (Chuckling a bit in agreement) That must definitely be humiliating for Negaduckie, that he will never forget that!

*(While the heroes chuckled a bit after Gomamon's line, Negaduck, hidden with the villains still, fumed in calm anger, ready to blow a gasket. He was then about to lunge out at them to beat the daylights out of them, but Shere Khan and Vanitas calmly eased him down by restraining him. Getting that he can't get himself and the other villains exposed, Negaduck eased down grudgingly. Back with the heroes, they eased their chuckles)*

Meowth: You ain't so bad, Pikachu.

Pikachu: (Happily agrees, then curiously) Pika. Pika chu, pika pika, chu pika?

Meowth: (Interested, then translating) What? Did you just ask that you could basically consider me a surrogate brother to you? *(Now calmly amazed in curiosity)* Does that mean...? *(Curiously)* What does that make me to you now?

Pikachu: (Gladly answering) Pika chu ka.

Meowth: (Calmly amazed) "Your new best friend?"

Pikachu: (Nods gladly) Pika.

*(Hearing Pikachu say that in his Pokemon call with his nod, Meowth smiled softly, impressed)*

Meowth: Gee, I guess you *can* be my surrogate brother.

Megavolt: Like how Quackie and I are surrogate brothers besides best friends.

Quackerjack: (To Megavolt, pulling Mr. Banana Brain out while agreeing) That's right. *(In a high-pitched voice)* Chums to the end, bend.

Meowth: Thanks, Mr. Banana Brain.

Pikachu: (Happily thanking Mr. Banana Brain) Pikachu!

Quackerjack: (In a high-pitched voice) You're welcome.

*(Meowth then turned to Pikachu while Quackerjack puts his Mr. Banana Brain doll away)*

Meowth: Then consider myself to you your new surrogate brother and best friend.... Pal.

Pikachu: (Happily and hopefully) Pika ka chu?

Meowth: (Nods in agreement) Instead of just treating each other like cat and mouse.

Pikachu: (Happily, then agreeing) Chaaaa. Pika.

*(Then Haruhiko checked his watch)*

Haruhiko: Well, it's time we head off for bed.

*(Realizing he's right, the heroes agreed)*

Haruhiko: (Looking at Meowth, Meowzie, Fidget, and Stellaluna) As for you four....

Meowth, Meowzie, Fidget, and Stellaluna: (Nods) Yep.

Fidget: Meowth and I will catch up with Jessie and James later tonight.

Volteer: (Nods) And we'll see to it you, Meowth's group, can have your late dinner for tonight.

Toshiko: (Agreeing) Since you didn't eat yet.

Grace: Cooked fish and strawberries.

Haruhiko: Along with the usual fruit.

Volteer's group: Coming up.

Meowth's group: (Glad to hear that) Wow, *(Nods in gratitude)* thanks.

Meowth, Meowzie, Fidget, and Stellaluna: (Changing the subject gladly) Anyway, good night.

Heroes except Meowth, Meowzie, Fidget, and Stellaluna: Good night.

*(Then with that, Meowth, Meowzie, Fidget, and Stellaluna are alone at last after the heroes left them alone. Nearby in the bushes, the villains, having witnessed this, smirked evilly, as if having a plan)*

Merlock: (Whispering) Well, well.

Vanitas: (Whispering) It looks like Meowth's group has made friends *and* peace with our enemies.

Negaduck: (Whispering mockingly) And Meowth and Widget have found "True love" of their own. *(Whispering seriously and darkly)* Considering that they, along with those meddlers, just insulted me.

Shere Khan: (Whispering) And I especially did not expect Meowth to be accepted as a surrogate brother and best friend to the other electric rat.

Merlock: (Whispering) That will fit well into our plan.

Ruggedo: (Whispering) What plan is that?

Merlock: (Whispering) We'll wait until Meowzie and Stellaluna are alone.

Negaduck: (Whispering) And when the time is right....

Myotismon, Hunter J, and Splatter Phoenix: (Whispering) Those girls will be in our clutches again.

Bulba: (Whispering) Oh, so basically....

Vanitas: (Whispering) Yep.

Merlock: (Whispering) We're gonna make Meowth's group cooperate with us with a little.... Persuasion.

Negaduck: (Whispering) And ruin Meowth's.... "Surrogate brotherhood" and "New friendship" with Peskachu.

Shere Khan: (Whispering) So, just be patient.

*(They chuckled evilly quietly a bit. Later, all alone, Meowzie and Stellaluna just said good night to Meowth and Fidget, who went inside, and then sat at the garden with calm loving smiles, looking at the starry sky. Then appearing behind the two girls, the villains got their attention. The two gasped when they shushed them and Negaduck held his hand out to shake Meowzie and Stellaluna's)*

Negaduck: Greetings, Meowzie and Stellaluna. I am the most fiendish terror that flaps in the darkest night! I am the skunk that pollutes your air! I am...!

*(Meowzie and Stellaluna, as Negaduck said this, realized who Merlock's group and their henchmen are upon hearing and glared nonchalantly)*

Meowzie and Stellaluna: (Nonchalantly) Negaduck?

*(Calmly surprised that they easily figured him out, Negaduck gave a smug evil smirk)*

Negaduck: Well, you both really are smart as tacks.

Stellaluna: (Calmly and angrily) Yes, we're aware of that.

Meowzie: (Calmly and angrily) And we already know who you, Merlock's group, and their henchmen are.

Stellaluna: (Calmly and angrily) And my new friends already told us about you.

Meowzie: (Calmly and angrily) So bug off, creeps, before we get Ash and his sister and friends.

*(Meowzie and Stellaluna were about to leave when the villains rushed in front of them, making them stop in annoyance)*

Demidevimon: Whoa, whoa, whoa! Time out!

Splatter Phoenix: Sure, we got off on the wrong foot with me, Myotismon, and Hunter J lying to you about your pendants, but....

Meowzie and Stellaluna: (Shocked) How'd you know we found out?

Merlock: I told them from me sensing you both from Myotismon, Hunter J, and Splatter Phoenix's memories.

*(A short pause, then....)*

Stellaluna: Nice try, but no cigar.

Meowzie: (To the villains) So, leave us alone, you creeps. *(To Negaduck)* Especially you, Negaduckie.

*(Meowzie and Stellaluna tried to walk away again when the villains stopped them again by running in front of them in anger at first)*

Merlock's group: (Furiously) Why you…!

Negaduck: (Furiously) Hear us out, you…!

*(They quickly calm themselves when Shere Khan cleared his throat)*

Merlock's group: Sorry. (Sorry about that.)

Negaduck: First off, it's just "Negaduck," not "Negaduckie." Secondly, just hear us out.

Meowzie: Stellaluna and I got nothing to hear about you.

Stellaluna: So, for the last time, leave us alone.

*(The two started to walk away as the villains stood there and then smirked evilly)*

Vanitas: I guess you’re not gonna know what you’ll…. Open to, girls.

*(Merlock snapped his fingers and in a flash, to the shock of Meowzie and Stellaluna, they vanished into thin air just before they screamed. The villains smiled evilly at each other, seeing their persuasion plan is unfolding at last. In a room somewhere in the palace, Meowth's group smiled as they sat on a giant pillow eating some fruit, and mostly, to Fidget and Meowth's enjoyment, strawberries and cooked fish)*

Meowth: Now this is better than having raw fish stuffed down my throat.

Meowth's group except Meowth: You said it.

Fidget: And the strawberries are good as ever.

*(Jessie chuckles a bit as she ate some grapes)*

Jessie: And lucky for us, we'll never have to be abused and tortured like we were with Merlock's group.

James: And the best part; We successfully got our consolation prize in the form of new friends.

Meowth: And a surrogate brother.

Jessie and James: And our official new home.

Fidget: And me and Meowth's girls of our dreams.

James: Yeah!

Meowth: Unlike those jerks, Merlock's group and their goons.

*(Meowth then mocked Merlock's group and their henchmen, making his group laugh a bit at this, unaware that Merlock's group and their henchmen are standing right next to Meowth from behind, smirking evilly in a calm way)*

Meowth: (Imitating Merlock) Meowth, go polish my talisman or I'll splash you with water! *(Imitating Vanitas)* Hey, James, Widget, go pick up my Keyblade before I break your leg and wing! *(Imitating Negaduck)* Jessie, charge my chainsaw or I'll taze you so good!

*(He laughs a bit in his normal voice again as his group at first laughed a bit until they, except Meowth, stopped and gasped silently in shock and horror upon seeing Merlock's group and their henchmen)*

James: (Shocked) Uh, Meowth...?

Jessie: (Shocked) I think you should turn around.

*(Meowth, not hearing Jessie and James, then started to turn around)*

Meowth: Never again...!

*(He stuttered in shock and horror a bit upon seeing, along with his group, Merlock's group and their henchmen)*

Meowth's group: Merlock's group!

James: (Nervously) Oh, hey! Long time no see! *(Suddenly panicking)* Please, don't hurt us!

*(Merlock's group and their henchmen smirked evilly at Meowth's group. Ruggedo's gang appeared behind them, with Ruggedo holding the black lamp. Meowth's group nervously backed away upon realizing Ruggedo's gang is with Merlock's group and their henchmen)*

Jessie: (Nervously) Uh, I take it you made friends with them?

Vanitas: (Sarcastically) Oh, and is it really bad enough Merlock threatening to splash you with water, Meowth, me threatening to break James and Widget's respective leg and wing, and Negaduck threatening to taze Jessie so good if you guys didn't do what we say? *(Pretending to be shocked)* Well, we're hurt.

Jessie: Now, now. We know you are upset at us for dropping you in that well.

James: But what do you expect?

Fidget: So, no hard feelings, right?

Meowth: It's true that you abused and tortured us since our families' deaths....

Negaduck: Oh relax, guys.

Shere Khan: We did not come to get our revenge on you.

Meowth's group: (Confused) You're not?

Merlock: You can see that Ruggedo's gang are now our new friends.

Dijon: So, basically, yes, we made friends with them behind your backs earlier tonight.

Negaduck: At least *they* were nice enough to set us free from that black lamp. Unlike you idiotic losers.

Meowth: (Uneasily) Yeah, well.... *(In determination)* We better get going now and get Ash and his sister and friends. (Quickly in determination) Including Pikachu.

*(But the villains made Meowth's group, who tried to leave, stop by standing in their way)*

Shere Khan: Not so fast.

Splatter Phoenix: We will make you an offer you can’t refuse.

Hunter J: Take it or leave it.

Meowth: (Flatly) Trying to bribe us, eh?

Jessie: (Flatly) We heard that before.

James: (Flatly as he and Meowth's group tried to leave again) We don't have time for this.

Negaduck: (Quickly stopping Meowth's group again with the villains' help) More than that.

Vanitas: This’ll probably change your mind.

Shere Khan: For you see, *two of your friends* are already well-aware of this…. Upcoming deal.

Meowth: (Confused) What do you mean "Two of our friends?"

Fidget: (Suspiciously) Do you mean...?

*(Merlock snaps his fingers, making Meowzie and Stellaluna appear behind the villains, looking around in confusion when they noticed Meowth's group and became concerned. Even Meowth's group, who noticed them, became shocked)*

Meowth's group: Meowzie and Stellaluna?!

Meowzie and Stellaluna: It’s a tr…! (Don't lis...!)

*(Suddenly, as Meowzie and Stellaluna ran to Meowth's group, two separate smoke chains appeared and bound and gagged them both, making them fall down. Meowth and Fidget ran up to them to free them when Merlock, with an evil smirk, snapped his fingers again, making Meowzie and Stellaluna vanish again before Meowth and Fidget reached them. After the two vanished, Meowth's group turned to the villains in anger)*

Meowth: Let them go, you jerks!

Fidget: Or so help us...!

*(The two lunged at Merlock's group, but they dodged, making Meowth and Fidget lunge at the ground instead, making Jessie and James concerned. As Meowth and Fidget recovered with Jessie and James' help, the villains explained their deal)*

Vanitas: Ah-ah-ah!

Ruggedo: You must hear this deal.

Merlock: If you and your group rejoin us and betray Ash and his sister and friends, let us defeat the meddlers with a plan of deceit, while under a confession-proof spell along with Meowzie and Stellaluna….

*(He snaps his fingers again and Meowzie and Stellaluna, still bound and gagged in smoke chains, reappeared sitting next to Myotismon, Hunter J, and Splatter Phoenix)*

Negaduck: Then we’ll let you guys go free as birds and you, Meowth and Widget, can hang out and fall in love with Meowzie and Stellaluna anytime you like.

Merlock: So, what do you say?

*(Meowth's group looked at Meowzie and Stellaluna in concern and then turned to the villains in suspicion)*

James: So basically, you want us to let you kill Ash's group, Kaya, and their friends, right?

Vanitas: Nah, just hurt them is all.

Merlock: And besides, it’s just a little vengeance.

Negaduck: And what do you owe them, huh?

*(Negaduck goes over to Meowzie, Stellaluna, Myotismon, Hunter J, and Splatter Phoenix and Negaduck and Splatter Phoenix grabbed Meowzie and Stellaluna from under their respective chins and their respective smoke chain-gagged mouths while Hunter J pulled her sword out and aimed its blade at both Meowzie and Stellaluna and Myotismon helped tighten Meowzie and Stellaluna's smoke chains that are binding and gagging them, hurting them)*

Negaduck: Aren't Meowzie and Stellaluna more important?

*(He makes baby faces in front of Meowzie and Stellaluna’s faces)*

Negaduck: Now answer us that.

Splatter Phoenix: Are these gals more important?

Meowth's group: Stop it!

Negaduck and Splatter Phoenix: Aren't they?!

Myotismon and Hunter J: (Smugly) Well?

*(Negaduck and Splatter Phoenix squeezed Meowzie and Stellaluna's respective bound and gagged faces tightly, hurting them while Hunter J aimed her sword at them and Myotismon hurt Meowzie and Stellaluna even more by tightening their smoke chains even more. Meowth's group, instead of answering the question, reluctantly gave in, not wanting to see both girls get hurt or killed)*

Meowth's group: Fine!

Jessie: We’ll help you!

James: But only if Ash and his sister and friends don’t get hurt by you.

Meowth: Especially not Pikachu, and make sure those girls are safe from any harm!

Fidget: We mean it!

Merlock: (After Negaduck and Splatter Phoenix released Meowzie and Stellaluna's bound and gagged faces briefly and Myotismon loosened the smoke chains a bit) Fine! That’s a fair deal.

Hunter J: A wise choice.

Myotismon: Indeed.

Negaduck: (While he and Splatter Phoenix again grabbed Meowzie and Stellaluna's respective bound and gagged faces briefly to do a mocking tender gesture) Meowzie and Stellaluna will be safe from harm.

*(Negaduck and Splatter Phoenix then released their second grips on Meowzie and Stellaluna's respective bound and gagged faces and continued the deal offer while walking with Myotismon and Hunter J, who puts her sword away, over to Meowth's group)*

Splatter Phoenix: And nobody gets hurt by us.

Hunter J: Especially not your little yellow electric rat surrogate brother/friend.

Vanitas: And if Meowzie and/or Stellaluna do get hurt, then the confession-proof spell casted on either one of them or both will break and if either of them comes clean on this deal to anyone, then your confession-proof spells will break too.

Bulba: Now shake on it with Merlock's group.

*(Merlock holds his hands out to Meowth's group, but they hesitated)*

Vanitas: You know, we don’t have time.

Negaduck: He has a point.

Myotismon: We got plans right about now!

Demidevimon: And like Liquidator, one of Ash's friends, always says....

Merlock: Going once, going twice?

*(Meowth's group hesitantly turned to Meowzie and Stellaluna and after they shook their heads “No” with pleading looks, Meowth's group got determined and turned to the villains)*

Meowth's group: Deal!

Villains: Yes!

Merlock: The deal is set!

*(Then with that, much to the horror of Meowzie and Stellaluna, Meowth's group stuck their hands out and shook them with Merlock’s hands. As soon as they touched to shake, a blue light surrounded Meowth's group, Meowzie, and Stellaluna, making them grimace in pain. After the light died down, Meowth's group dropped onto the ground while Meowzie and Stellaluna drooped, feeling like they are disoriented for a brief moment)*

Merlock: Now, from what I just sensed, the spell may make you a little queasy for a brief moment.

Vanitas: That’s right.

*(After Meowth's group, Meowzie, and Stellaluna came to, Merlock picked up an empty bowl nearby with a levitation spell and said this next)*

Merlock: Why not just…. SIT DOWN?!

*(On “SIT DOWN!?!”, he casts the bowl at Meowth's group, knocking them down onto their backs while Meowzie and Stellaluna watched in shock and concern. As Meowth's group recovered, the villains came up to him with evil smirks)*

Merlock: Now how does that feel when you betray us?

Negaduck: Especially when you refered to me as "Negaduckie?"

Vanitas: Isn’t it just peachy?

*(They turned to Meowzie and Stellaluna still smirking evilly)*

Vanitas: And there’s a new thing we forgot to mention.

Villains: Yes.

*(They went up to Meowzie and Stellaluna)*

Vanitas: (In mocking sympathy with an evil smirk) Now, now, girls.

Myotismon, Hunter J, and Splatter Phoenix: (In mocking sympathy with evil smirks) A deal’s a deal.

Negaduck: (Smugly with an evil smirk) That’s right.

*(Merlock then snapped his fingers and then the smoke chains vanished, untying and ungagging Meowzie and Stellaluna, making them cough a bit at first)*

Meowzie: (Angrily) You jerks!

Stellaluna: (Angrily) How could you?!

*(Just when Meowzie and Stellaluna lunged at them to punch, bite, and/or scratch them, Myotismon, Hunter J, and Splatter Phoenix grabbed them savagely)*

Splatter Phoenix: Now behave yourself!

Hunter J: Stop fighting us!

Myotismon: Right now!

Merlock: And stay put with us until Ruggedo's gang….

*(The villains leered evilly with their evil smirks at Meowth's group)*

Merlock: Captures the Sultan and Sultaness' group.

*(Meowth's group, Meowzie, and Stellaluna realized in shock)*

Meowth's group, Meowzie, and Stellaluna: (Shocked) What?!

Meowth's group: Wait!

James: You said…!

Vanitas: (Laughs evilly a bit) You are so gullible!

Negaduck: (Mockingly) Make sure they’re safe! *(Seriously after laughing evilly a bit along with the villains)* As if we’ll spare Ash and his dear sister and friends!

Dijon: Especially not even Pikachu!

Merlock: We said my group, henchmen, and I *won’t* hurt them. But Ruggedo's gang will, once our upcoming trap is set tomorrow.

Fidget: (In disbelief) "Upcoming trap?"

James: (In disbelief) So that deal…?

*(The villains gave evil smug smiles and Meowth's group slowly got angry)*

Meowth's group: You tricked us!

Villains: We try.

Negaduck: Nothing compared to the day your families died.

*(Reacting in surprise, Meowth's group, Meowzie, and Stellaluna realized slowly)*

Meowzie and Stellaluna: You mean...?

Villains: Yeah. (Yes.)

Negaduck: We killed them.

Shere Khan: In cold blood.

Dijon: That's right!

Merlock: They should've accepted the offer to join us in our conquest on Agrabah and the world, but they refused.

Vanitas: They literally dug their own graves, that they drowned in it.

*(Meowth's group slowly and calmly began to let their shock turn into anger, letting it slowly boil over, ready to blow a gasket)*

Merlock: And besides, we did it to give you losers an incentive to join us.

Vanitas: So, it'll be a fun pleasure to take away your surrogate brother and friends from your lives like we did your families.

*(Meowth's group, finally letting out a brief angry scream, ran up to them to punch them, or scratch them in Meowth's case and use magic attacks on them in the Fearsome Four's case, but Myotismon whipped them down with his Crimson Lightning while Merlock kicked them down, making them stop)*

Merlock: Ah-ah-ah! Remember the deal.

Myotismon: Don't push it away!

Bulba: Or do you want Meowzie and Stellaluna to get hurt?

Hunter J: Along with Peskachu?

Meowth and Fidget: (Shocked) You wouldn't!

Jessie and James: (Shocked) Please, don't!

Villains: We would.

Merlock: Unless you cooperate.

Meowzie: (To Meowth's group) You mustn't, please!

Stellaluna: (To Meowth's group in agreement) They're just trying to ruin our...!

*(But Merlock snapped his fingers, rebinding and regagging the two girls in two separate smoke chains again and then locked them both in a cage)*

Vanitas and Negaduck: Stay quiet!

Merlock: Unlike the princesses before.

*(Meowth's group got concerned for Meowzie and Stellaluna, then sighed in defeat)*

Meowth's group: Okay.

Fidget: We'll do what you say and plan.

Jessie and James: As you wish.

Meowth: Just don't hurt them or Pikachu.

Fidget: Yeah.

Villains: Good.

Merlock: And also, the best part of the confession-proof spell....

Vanitas: Meowzie and Stellaluna are stripped of their powers, and will only return when the spell is broken.

Villains: (Smugly) Bye. (Goodbye.)

*(Then with that, the villains left with the captive Meowzie and Stellaluna in tow, leaving Meowth's group alone and concerned)*

***Coming up: Meowth's group reluctantly leads Ash, Matt, Tombo, Pikachu, Megavolt, Quackerjack, Aku-Aku, Crunch, Volteer, Grace, Haruhiko, and Toshiko into a trap involving the eventual capture of Volteer's group. At the same time this happens, Merlock's group, their henchmen, and Ruggedo's gang capture Crash's group, their families, and even the rest of Ash's gang so they, the reluctantly cooperating Meowth's group, and the captive Meowzie and Stellaluna won't intervene eventually.***