"I sound like a lovesick character…" Misty muttered as she went through the script.

"Well you are searching for love in this play." Gary pointed out.

"Oh… right. Oopsie." She giggled with a sweatdrop as Gary and Drew fell over.

"Let's just get started." Drew suggested.

"Okay good idea, now let's get into character. In this scene I meet Gary for the first time." Misty directed.

"You start us off Gary." Drew read.

"Guys!" Lily called from the door, "We're ready for you guys in the tank."

After changing into the swimwear dress that Violet had made specifically for rehearsals, the three made their way to the piece of land placed in the tank where their friends and Misty's sisters could see and hear them perfectly. The dress made her look as graceful as a Goldeen.

"Cute dress!" Dawn and May squealed.

"Rehearsals for first meeting between the prince and the mermaid, let's go!" Violet called.

"I could have sworn something was right here." The prince surveyed the sea.

"Maybe your eyes were playing tricks on you, it's dark out here." His friend shrugged. "Come on, it's getting late there's nothing out here."

"You go ahead, I'll stay out here."

"Be my guest, but I'm telling you, there's nothing here." Lily walked back into the castle.

Out of the corner of the prince's eye, he saw something dive back into the water.

"Who's out there?!" he demanded. "Show yourself!"

He heard something swim closer and without hesitating, he drew his sword and cornered the visitor.

"I—I'm sorry." The mermaid stared at the sword.

"Oh… a mermaid?" he stared at her stunned.

"I just wanted to see the castle up close." She explained herself, still looking at the sword.

He said as he withdrew his sword and kissed her hand. "I'm sorry to have scared you my lady."

She blushed and moved away. "It's quite alright. I won't bother you again."

"NO! Wait!" he pleaded. "Please don't go."

"Why?" she asked, surprised.

"I.. I don't know." He blushed at his reply.

"I'm Misty, the mermaid." She smiled shyly at the prince.

"I'm Prince Gary." He bowed respectfully. "What brings you to the surface?"

"I often longed for a life on land. I want to learn about the surface world."

"I can teach you if you'd like."

"How?"

"I have a library, every night I can teach you about our world, and in exchange, you tell me about you."

"I can bring our scrolls here and tell you about our culture."

"I'm not interested in that right now."

"But you said—"

"I said you. I want you to tell me about yourself. I want to get to know you better." He said as he pulled her face closer.

The prince and the mermaid stared deep into each other's faces and….

"Yoohooo! Over here!" A shrilly voice from the entrance called out, disrupting the rehearsal and distracting Ash from running towards the water tank.

"What was that?" Ash asked after May poured a bucket of water on him to cool him down from the rage that was building.

"In this situation, something that makes your intention to interrupt pale in comparison." Dawn muttered.

"WHO DARES INTERRUPT OUR REHEARSAL?!" Violet roared.

"Prepare for trouble…"

"And make it double."

"To protect the world from devastation."

"To unite all peoples within our nation."

"To denounce the evils of truth and love."

"To extend our reach to the stars above."

Appearing out of the cloud of smoke was a woman with long red hair. "Jessie."

At her side was a man with short blue hair. "James."

"Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light!"

"Surrender now, or prepare to fight!"

"Meowth that's right!"

"Not you guys again!" Misty complained.

"Aren't you happy to see us twerp? It's been a long time after all." Jessie said as she used a remote control, which sent eight giant robotic tentacles towards the Pokémon.

"Like recall the Pokémon quick!" Daisy panicked.

It was too late, several Goldeen were captured, as well as Dewgong, and Starmie. One last tentacle was aiming for Misty's Corsola, but was pushed out of the way by its trainer.

"Hey we were supposed to take the Corsola!" Meowth complained.

"DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO MEOWTH!" Jessie screamed back.

"Someone get this tentacle off of me!" Misty yelled as she struggled.

"I'm coming Misty!" Ash called out. "Buizel use aqua jet on that machine!" he said as he threw his pokeball in the air.

Popping out of its pokeball, Buizel was almost invisible if it weren't for the water. Launching itself straight at the machine, it was enough power to knock it over and cause a minor explosion at the lower area, which blew Team Rocket to the wall.

"Go Pachirisu!" Dawn threw her pokeball, revealing an electric squirrel inside.

"Seviper use poison tail!" Jessie commanded her Pokémon.

"Pachirisu dodge it and use spark on Team Rocket!"

And with its trainer's command, the adorable little squirrel's speed dodged the attack and launched deadly blue bolt of electricity that fried up the team.

"Hey don't use spark on me or the Pokémon!" Misty freaked at the close range attack.

"Absol I choose you! Use razor wind!" Drew commanded as he threw his pokeball.

Razor wind was just the trick get the Pokémon free, but with the impact it sent the machine and Team Rocket backwards, along with Misty.

"Someone do something!" Misty cried as she was still caught in the robotic tentacle. "Help me Psyduck! Psychic attack!" unfortunately for her, Psyduck could only tilt his head in confusion. "Great… HEEEEEELP!"

"Buizel use water gun!"

"Pachirisu use thundershock!"

With a combo of electricity and water, the machine blew up, and soon enough Team Rocket was blasting off.

"That was shockingly quick." James mumbled.

"Looks like we're blasting off again!" The trio echoed through the sky.

The attack not only blew their enemies into the sky, but it also knocked Misty out. After all, who can handle a thundershock combined with a water gun attack at close range? The good news, the robotic tentacle was destroyed and she was released. The bad news? Misty can't fly.

"I got her!" Ash ran holding his arms out.

"Beautifly use stringshot!" May threw her pokeball.

Popping out of its pokeball, Beautifly quickly launched a stringshot to cushion Misty's landing. It worked, and she landed softly in Ash's arms.

"Hey! I said I got her!"

"What do you think this looks like?"

A sweatdrop appeared on his head. "Oh right heh." Which was followed by May falling over.

"Misty! Are you like okay?" Daisy ran up to her charred sister.

"Of course she's not Daisy! Just look at her!" Violet nudged.

"She looks worse than usual." Lily muttered worriedly.

That insult woke Misty up. "You're going to look ten times worse if you say another word!"

"Yup, she's fine." Brock declared. "Come on let's get you to a bed, that attack combo must have done a lot." He said as he took Misty from Ash and started carrying her.

"But I…" Ash started but was unnoticed by the aspiring breeder.

"Now's not the time to play Romeo, let's just take a little break." Dawn told him.

"I wasn't-!" Ash started to protest.

"Move it Ashy boy." Gary pushed from behind.

"Quit calling me that." He said as he rubbed his shoulder.

While Misty was recovering with some sleep, the others decided to grab some lunch. Luckily for everyone (especially Ash and May), the Cerulean sisters were incredibly rich so they can afford pretty much anything, including a great buffet.

"I haven't seen Ash eat like that since the St. Anne." Brock mentioned.

"I haven't seen May eat like that… ever." Drew mentioned.

"Well I guess it's like nice to see that they're enjoying this buffet." Lily giggled.

"I gotta ask, what's the whole story about?" Ash asked as he scarfed down a steak.

"Oh no you don't Ash Ketchum!" Dawn halted.

"What?"

"We're getting the best seats in the house and you want a spoiler?"

"Hey I just want to know what happens okay?"

"Oh Ash, it's just a play no need to get jealous." Lily sighed.

Gary was snickering at this point. "Don't worry, I'll keep my distance after this play. Of course that'll be in a month since we extended."

While Gary and Ash argue over his denial, everyone else watched with a sweatdrop on their heads.

"Should we stop them?" Dawn asked.

"I don't think that's possible." Brock replied.

Just then the doors opened, revealing Misty, awake from her recovery nap.

"Misty! How are you feeling?" May asked, running up to her.

"Lousy." She replied almost inaudibly.

"Then what are you doing up?"

"It's kinda hard to sleep, especially when two people won't stop talking so loud." She looked at the rivals, still arguing, completely unaware of her presence.

"Come on you must be starving!"

"Better get some before May eats it all." Drew told her.

"Ugh! Seriously?" May glared at him.

"I'm just giving Misty a little warning, she needs all her strength." He replied calmly.

"Stop making me look like a Snorlax!"

"I never said you were one now did I?"

"You were implying that!"

"How can you be so sure? Is this your strategy now? Just basing everything off an assumption?"

"This is not a contest Drew!"

"I know but it seems like you're losing your touch. After all I did win our last battle remember? Looks like you made another mistake."

"I do not repeat mistakes!"

"Of course you do, otherwise how do you think my Roserade beat your Wartortle?"

"You just got lucky!"

"I believe it was based on type. In case you've forgotten, and I'm sure you did, grass beats water." He reminded her, flicking his hair.

"Not everything is based on types!"

"Well in that battle it did."

"Who are you to tell me that?!"

"A coordinator with more experience than you."

"I'm just as good as you are!"

"So you do admit that I'm good." He smirked.

"Are they always like this?" Misty asked Brock.

"Pretty much, you get used to it." He replied, sipping some tea.

"How can you get used to two people arguing all the time?"

Brock just stared at her.

"What?" she asked.

He let out a heavy sigh. "Nothing, just eat."

A/N:

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