It was a lovely day, the sky was blue, the sun was shining and the birds were singing. Ash Ketchum and his friends, Brock, Misty and Pikachu enjoyed the landscape as they were walking to the next town on Ash`s journey. Little did they know what awaited them in a grove just one mile away from them.
In said grove there was a clearing where Team Rocket were eagerly awaiting the arrival of Ash and his friends.
"This time we`ll get him!" said James, a purple haired young man
"This time for sure!" Jessie, a young woman with very long magenta hair, curled in a comet-tail behind her head, agreed
"As long as we follow to the plan and don`t get distracted" added Meowth, the only Pokémon-member of the team.
Suddenly, there was a noise from the bushes that caught the team off guard. Out came a young woman. Her magenta colored hair was was messy and full of leaves, twigs and dirt. He wore a torn, mud -covered Team Rocket uniform. Branches twigs and leaves aside, she was the spitting image of Jessie.
"I`m the real Jessie! That woman over there is just a cheap copy! A ludicrous look-alike!" yelled the woman.
"Feh! What a preposterous imposter!" retorted Jessie. "I am not a copy and I am certainly not cheap!"
"James!" said the woman, looking at James. "The last time I saw you was in Pewter City! It was morning and we were just getting ready to leave the motel. I went to the bathroom to freshen up but then something stung me in the neck and I passed out! When I woke up, several hours had passed!"
"Pewter City?" James thought to himself. "That was two days ago."
"Don`t listen to her, I`m the real Jessie!" yelled Jessie.
"No, I`m the real one!" shouted the woman.
"Ask them a question that only the real Jessie would know!" said Meowth.
"What`s my favourite movie and song?" James asked the two Jessies.
"Uuh..." was all that the woman could say. She didn`t know the answer.
"Footloose!" said Jessie confidently.
She then pulled out a tranquilizer gun and aimed it at the woman.
"What?! Wait! Nonono-" was all that the woman could say before jessie pulled the trigger. The woman went down like a sack of potatoes.
"The real Jessie wouldn`t know the answer to that question." said James, finally putting the pieces together.
"You`re not the real Je-" was all he could say before Jessie shot him with the tranquilizer gun and he, just like the real Jessie before him, went down like a sack of potatoes.
"You`ve might have gotten those two, bu-" was all Meowth could say before Jessie shot him as well, and he too, went down like a sack of potatoes.
"With you fools out of the way, that Pikachu will be all mine!" exclaimed Jessie triumphantly.
"Hi Jessie. Whatcha doin`?" said Ash.
Jessie turned around and stood face to face with Ash, Brock, Misty and Pikachu.
"Why are there two of her?" asked Misty as she saw the other knocked out members of Team Rocket.
"One of her is more than enough." said Brock with a nod.
"Pikachu!" Pikachu agreed.
"Bah! take THIS!" yelled Jessie as she aimed the tranquilizer gun at Pikachu and pulled the trigger... only for nothing to happen.
"Crap!" thought Jessie, looking like someone who was about to get hit by a truck. "I should have taken more than four darts with me!"
"Pikachu, you know the drill." said Ash calmly to his trusty Pokémon, as if this had become a routine to both of them.
"Pikaaa..." Pikachu said, charging himself up for an electrical attack.
"What?! Wait! Nonono-" was all Jessie could say before...
"CHUUU!!" Pikachu fried her like a toad getting struck by lightning.
Ash and his friends continued their journey as if nothing had happened.
Jessie, still conscious and in a lot of pain, crawled away from the sleeping members of the real Team Rocket while she still had the strength and they were still unconscious. After having left the clearing and taken cover among the trees she sat up and rested against a tree to gather her strength.
"What made me think that this was a good idea?" she groaned. She started to pull her face off, it came off with a SCHLORP and revealed the real face underneath. It was Scorp, a man with brown hair, blue eyes and a goatpatch.
"Why did I try to compete with Team Rocket in trying to catch Pikachu? Did I have something to prove to their boss Giovanni?"
He already knew the answer to that question.
"No, catching Pikachu was never the goal, the goal was to only to disguise myself as Jessie. I never needed to go through all that other crap that comes with being a Team Rocket member. But I guess I wanted to add something extra to my little dress-up game, or else it would have only lasted a few minutes, instead of two whole days. Guess I`m a sucker for making things unnecessarily complicated."
With some effort, he managed to stand up, and with more effort, he managed to walk out of the grove.
He walked down the road wearing his burned, soot-covered, hyper-realistic female bodysuit, his damaged Team Rocket uniform, letting the Jessie mask hang upside down in his hand, dragging its long hair against the ground.
"I don`t think I`m gonna stay here in Kanto much longer." he thought to himself. "I`ve had enough electroshock therapy to last a lifetime."

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