“Hey let go of me you dumb lady! Dopey! Freaking help us out dude! We’re getting kidnapped and you’re not doing anything about it!” A young girl yelled as she frantically kicked and struggled.

“Who’s a cute slowpoke? You are, yes you are.” The lady dressed in black carried the wriggling child in one arm while leaving crumbs behind.

Behind them, a pink pokemon ate up each piece with a dopey look on its face. Fully content with the situation at hand despite it’s trainer shouting orders at it. This slowpoke didn’t seem to acknowledge that it’s trainer was yelling commands at all. As if their words were nothing more than a fart in the wind.

Eventually the trio stopped wandering through the halls until they reached a rather large room. In the midst of the young girl’s attempts of resisting, she was thrown onto the floor as the woman in black gave a wave and blew a kiss at the slowpoke. “Good luck fresh meat!”

She closed the door with a heavy bang behind her as the young girl and her slowpoke realized that they weren’t alone. Several others were filed into the room, staring at them briefly before going about their way. Some more curious ones began chatting.

“What’s a kid doing here?”

“I didn’t know they were recruiting brats too.”

“Am I going to get paid the same as a stupid child? How is that fair to me? I got a family to take care of.”

The young girl balled her tiny fists, eyes blazing. “That stupid lady is gonna pay for messing with me!”

She scanned the room full of staring faces. The young lady met their stares with a glare of her. “What y’all looking at?! Keep staring and I’ll give you something to stare at!” She shook her fist.

The firecracker strode over to the fancier dressed guys and jabbed a finger in his thigh. “You. You look like a nerd. Help me find my way out of here.” She then turned without waiting for a response.

Slowpoke meandered next to her, unconcerned. The others traded glances, unsure what to make of this pint-sized runt. But her fiery spirit was infectious. If she wanted a fight with one of the higher-ups, they’d have some entertainment at least.

Unlike what the young girl expected, the wuss did not began leading her to the exit or to the lady in black. All she saw was a flash of red and a heavy impact that sent her flying into the crowd of grunts. With a scream, the sea of bodies stopped her flight as she came to the realization that the wuss wasn’t as much of a wuss as he looked. Anger, confusion, pain, momentarily a spike of fear, more pain, and a small comfort of relief as she saw a familiar shade of pink appear in front of her. Still looking as dopey as ever though…

“You wanna fight, then I’ll give you a fight dork! Dopey, kill him dead and that stupid purple balloon!” She shouted with gusto despite being injured.

Dopey didn’t move an inch. Then the others started to laugh after the pokemon didn’t move even after five seconds had passed. “Koffing, use smog and put that pitiful creature out of its misery.” The wuss ordered coldly.

Koffing happily replied by spewing toxic purple smoke. The grunts frantically fled from the crazy runt and her slowpoke, not wanting to get poisoned. “Hurry up and get him Dopey! What are you waiting for?!” The young girl shouted, tears bordering around her eyes from her injuries.

As she went to wipe them away, momentarily blowing her vision, Dopey made a single move. It used curse. As it was engulfed in the cloud of poison, it continually used curse. Lowering it’s speed by multiple stages but at the same time raising its attack and defense simultaneously too. Then a color of pink emerged from the cloud still looking as pinkish and dopey as ever. It slowly made its way toward the koffing floating next to it’s trainer.

“How the heck are you going to hit him when you’re that slow! You’re slower than a turtle! Use Water Gun!” She ordered.

Dopey opened his mouth and as his lower mouth reached the apex of its descent, he yawned. One second later, Koffing yawned before slowly falling to the ground and going asleep. In the meantime, Dopey gradually made his way over to the sleeping pokemon as it’s trainer shouted to try and wake them back up. Unfortunately, it wasn’t quick enough as Dopey made it in front of the pokemon and used tackle.

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An incredibly slow charge forward but when Dopey made contact, the koffing went flying across the room. Crashing into the wall, it was obvious to anyone that the wuss’s pokemon had fainted. Just as the young girl was about to celebrate her victory, the older man recalled his pokemon and instantly sent out another one. “Zubat! Use Leech Life and drain the life of that disgusting pink blob!” He fiercely glared.

“Zu!” Zubat rushed forward without hesitation as it swooped down and directly aimed to bite down on the slowpoke.

Dopey was currently turned toward his trainer with a dim-witted look. “Why are you looking at me?! The battle isn’t over yet! Turn around!” She screamed while hopping up and down.

“Po…?” Dopey’s tail flicked downward.

Smashing into the incoming Zubat with its heavily buffed body. The Zubat was crushed into the ground, as cracks spread from the impact. Silence spread throughout the crowd as the realization that there was a talented recruit among them. And it was a loud-mouthed brat at that.

“Impossible… How did that stupid thing survive being engulfed in my pokemon’s poison for so long! It doesn’t even look poisoned!” The wuss couldn’t fathom how he lost.

“That’s because Dopey is the greatest slowpoke in the world! And I, Bell, will be the greatest trainer in the world!” Bell picked up Dopey with her arms slightly shaking.

…

“Interesting…”

“I told you there was something special about that slowpoke.”

“Why didn’t you just steal it from her?”

“I wasn’t confident I could do it.” The lady in black revealed.

“You?!”

“It’s a very special slowpoke. Perhaps the greatest there ever will be.” She giggled before hopping over the rail and landing in the middle of the new recruit. “Congratulations brat! You’ve just become an Executive. A core member of the rising Team Rocket organization in Johto!” The lady in black explained.

“You! Dopey! Beat her face in!” Bell ordered after recognizing the lady that kidnapped her.

Dopey did no such thing and happily rubbed up against the woman’s leg as she petted him. When she fed him a treat from her pocket, something strange happened. Dopey spat out something from his mouth that caught her attention. Bell was still screaming at Dopey to attack while this was happening.

“Executive…?”

“Do you know how much executives get paid?!”

“If I challenge that kid to a battle and beat her, do you think I can become an Executive?”

“I heard executives make crazy money…”

The smell of money attracted Bell’s attention more than getting revenge on the lady in black. “Hey, if I become an Executive or whatever, you’ll pay me?” She asked.

“As a member of Team Rocket, what you gotta do is pretty simple. Steal pokemon for profit. Exploit pokemon for profit. All pokemon exist for the glory of Team Rocket. We’re gonna be the biggest baddest and coolest gang in the world! Sounds pretty awesome right?” She smirked as she pocketed the strange object spat up by Dopey.

“I guess it sounds a little cool…” Bell muttered. “Just a little though!”

“Follow me, Executive Bell.” She grinned. “We gotta get you set up with everything you’ll need as an executive of Team Rocket.”

“Can I design my own outfit?!” Bell excitedly requested.

“Hmm… It depends if it’ll look good or not.”

“It’ll look so freaking good! So I was thinking…” Bell began talking her mouth off as she picked up Dopey and followed the lady.

…

“Mom! Dad! Look! I became a member of Team Rocket!” Bell excitedly showed off her super cool pink Team Rocket outfit.

“That’s great dear.” Her father replied while reading the newspaper.

“Isn’t that cute.” Her mother smiled before going back to filing her nails.

“Its not cute mom! I’m a super important member! I’m an Executive! That means I can order people around and I get the big bucks!” Bell explained seriously.

“Oh wow sweetie.” Her mom exclaimed in a monotone voice.

“Make sure to treat your subordinates with respect dear. I wish my boss had the decency to at least treat me as a person.” Her father sighed.

“I’ll have the best subordinates ever! Oh! I even got a mission tomorrow too! I’m supposed to takeover Goldenrod Department Store with Dopey!” Bell happily shared.

“Hmm, if you can, get mommy something pretty.” She looked at her unpainted nails figuring it was time for a change.

“I’m going to have the whole store! We can get whatever we want!” Bell rolled her eyes.

“You be careful sweetie. Goldenrod has quite the police force at its disposal.” Her father warned her.

“No one can stop me and Dopey! Come on Dopey! Let’s go train for tomorrow!” Bell rushed outside the house with Dopey following behind her.