A simply UNBELIEVABLE pic from the rescue scene in Chapter Six of "Revenge"! Annie looks sooooo busted here...
Thanks to Mandy of Team Rocket's Rockin! for this AMAZING pic!
Chapter Six: Training Completion
The smoke cleared away completely. Annie looked at the intruders with a snarling face. "Who the hell are you?" she demanded.
Jessie scowled at Annie, wishing she had her mallet. "James’ partners. His friends."
Meowth nodded. "That’s right." He said, backing up toward James.
Despite her surprise, Annie still managed to compose herself enough to say to Jessie, "You’re a White Rocket. You’re not allowed here. Get out."
"Forget it." Jessie spat. "What do you think you’re doing to James?"
"Training him!" Annie replied angrily.
"No training program works this way." Jessie said with acid in her voice. "Training programs also don’t include outsiders." She said, glancing at Jessebelle.
Annie looked at Jessie spitefully. "So you’re not as stupid as James. Fine. This is revenge!"
"For what?" Jessie replied.
"For putting a failure on my record! For blowing our mission! For making me look like a fool! Me, Annie Masterson, looking like a fool! And it’s all because of him!"
"Oh, please!" Jessie replied. "One failure? Get over it!"
"I don’t have time for this!" Annie replied. "Jessebelle! Grab her!"
Jessebelle ran to Jessie and grabbed her arms. Despite her superior strength, Jessie was caught off guard. She and Jessebelle struggled as Annie walked to the cabinet on the wall. James knew what she was going for. "Jessie! Run!" he yelled, his eyes full of panic.
Annie pulled the handgun from the cabinet and turned to face Jessie. "You overstepped your bounds, White Rocket. Now you will be punished." She said coldly.
Meowth jumped to the top of James’ rack and pounced onto Annie’s shoulder. "I don’t think so!" he yelled as he scratched at Annie’s face. Annie shrieked, and her finger closed around the trigger. For the first time in years, Annie fired blindly. The bullet tore into part of the wall and sent a cloud of dust falling onto Jessie and Jessebelle’s heads. Meowth slashed at Annie again, holding on despite her flailing, and this time, it happened. Annie’s grip loosened and the gun fell to the floor. Seeing her opportunity, Jessie suddenly jabbed her elbow into Jessebelle’s stomach. Jessebelle, still in shock from the gunshot, doubled over and let go as Jessie swept up the gun.
Meowth jumped off of Annie, who stood up. Her face was scratched and bleeding, but Annie seemed hardly fazed at all. "You’ll pay for that." She snarled.
"Maybe. Maybe not. But now I have the gun, sweetie. Now let James go." Jessie replied.
"Never!" Annie replied. "I want my revenge!"
"Don’t be stupid." Jessie snarled. She pointed the gun at Annie. "I’ve never shot anyone before, you know. But I’d be willing to do it now."
"Go ahead!" Annie yelled back. "Even if he gets away, Giovanni will know he left without the proper clearance from me or Seth. And, in case you’ve forgotten, the Boss doesn’t take defying orders lightly."
"I haven’t forgotten." Jessie replied. "That’s why you are going to contact him and tell him you’re releasing James."
Annie smirked at Jessie. "Are you crazy? Do you think Giovanni will believe that I’m just letting him go?"
"He will if you do it convincingly enough." Jessie replied.
"Forget it." Annie replied. "Go ahead, shoot me. You won’t get James back and you won’t get out of here alive!"
"I will!" Jessie cried, her eyes welling up with tears. "I need James, and I’m going to get him back! Face it, your revenge is over!"
"He’s mine!" Annie snarled. "Nothing you can do will change that! My revenge will be over when he’s dead!"
In the corner, Jessebelle rose up slowly, recovering from the shock of the gunplay and the blow from Jessie. "Now hold on." She said, approaching Annie. "You said that I would get James back when you were done!"
"And so you shall." Annie replied. "You’re completely welcome to his corpse!"
Jessebelle’s mouth fell open. "Wha- wha- what?" she stammered. "But- I- oh…." She buried her face in her hands and began to sob.
Jessie looked at Jessebelle. "If you don’t want James to die, then help me take care of her!" she pleaded, wondering whether or not she could trust Jessebelle.
Jessebelle stared at Jessie, then at Annie. Suddenly, she grabbed her bullwhip and snapped it in Jessie’s direction. Shocked, Jessie jumped and dropped the gun. Jessebelle pounced on the gun and grabbed it from the floor. Quickly, she trained it on Annie, her face cold and rigid. Her face turned to look at her beloved James, who was watching all this as his heart beat rapidly in his chest. "James! You can come away with me now! I’ll make Annie let you go, and we can get out of here and away from all this for good!"
James shuddered as he thought of this. Suddenly, he realized that Annie was quickly reaching forward to disarm Jessebelle.
"Jessebelle! Look-" James managed to say. Then, Jessebelle felt the gun being wrenched out of her hands. When she spun her head back to face Annie, she found the barrel against her forehead. Jessebelle whimpered as she tried desperately to keep from passing out.
Annie’s eyes narrowed. "Get out." She snarled. Jessebelle needed no further encouragement as she ran to the door and quickly unlocked the padlock. She yanked the door open and ran from the building, desperate to save herself. "Weak." Annie spat. "Like you." She said to James. She turned to Jessie and trained the gun on her. "And you." She said. With Annie’s attention on Jessie, Meowth made his way quietly over to the rack where James was being held, and silently began to loosen the straps that held James’ hands in place.
Jessie wanted to rush at Annie, to disarm her, to stop her before she could hurt James anymore… her own safety hardly even mattered to her anymore. All that mattered was getting Annie out of the way. But she found that she could hardly move. "I’ve already wasted too much time on you." Annie said coldly as she squeezed the trigger and fired a shot at Jessie.
The next second seemed like an eternity. In that second, Jessie’s life flashed before her eyes. Her childhood… Snowgasboard, the Pokemon Academy, James, the Bridge Bike Gang, James, Team Rocket, James, Billy, James, the night they had made love…. In that millisecond, that image gave Jessie the strength that had been spooked out of her by Jessebelle’s whip. Jessie jumped out of the way of the bullet, and landed safely away from the shot. Annie spun around toward her, tracking her movement like the sharpshooter she was, and fired again. Again, Jessie jumped out of the way.
Meowth finished undoing the third strap, and jumped up to undo the last one holding James’ left arm. James could only pray he’d be free in time…
Annie fired again as Jessie jumped, but this time, Jessie wasn’t so lucky. Annie’s bullet grazed her upper right arm, not seriously enough to do any real damage, but enough to scratch and burn her arm as the bullet passed by. Jessie clutched her arm, and tried to run out of harm’s way again, but tripped over a loose mat in the floor. Annie stood over her, her face filled with contempt and rage. She leveled the gun at Jessie’s head. "Foolish… weak… a disgrace to Team Rocket." Annie said spitefully to Jessie. Her finger wrapped around the trigger.
Suddenly, Annie fell backward to the floor, pulled down by a weight. For a second, she had no idea what was happening, then she recognized the form that had stopped her. James had gotten free somehow. Now she was lying on top of him, her back on his chest, his arms holding her down. Annie quickly forced herself to roll over, so she would be facing James. She slapped him across the face, a move which caused James to wince with pain as the scratches on his face burned. Annie’s face took an evil, perverse look as she sat up, straddling James. She grabbed his face with one hand, squeezing his scratched cheeks and forcing his mouth to open. When he opened his mouth, Annie shoved the barrel of the gun into his mouth. "Good bye, James." She said with acid in her voice and fire in her eyes.
"Annie!" Jessie yelled. Annie looked up, still holding the gun in place in James’ mouth. Jessie stood before her, holding a rifle. How the hell did she get that? Annie thought. Annie’s eyes glanced to the wall, and she realized she had left the gun cabinet wide open! "Seems I’m not the only foolish one." Jessie said coldly.
Annie’s eyes narrowed. This fool wouldn’t fire. Jessie couldn’t keep her from completing the task at hand. Annie’s hand gripped her gun tighter as she looked at James again.
The sound of a gun being fired.
A scream.
The burning pain of a bullet ripping through flesh.
The sickening sense of human pain in the air.
Revenge Chapter Seven: Goodbye, Cruel World
