"Look at this!" Go said, holding a book with a red cover in front of Ash.

"The thing you wanted me to see was... A book...?" He knew his friend liked reading and science and all that but...

"No, what's inside of it is what's important!" Goh's eyes shone as he spoke.

"Words...?"

"No! The recordings of my research!" Goh flipped through the book. He had just recently been traveling to a distant region —which Ash forgot the name for— where it was said to be Mew's birthplace. "I found so many interesting things but more importantly, a tape! It was beaten up, buried in the snow, but Ren said he may find a way to restore the contents of it!" Goh pushed the book in Ash's face, words scattered everywhere, arrows and doodles that only Goh could decypher. He sure was a smart guy but gosh, was his organization lackluster. "I called you because he is about to finish the restoration!"

"Oh, cool!" Ash avoided looking at the words that made his head hurt from Goh's journal and instead choose to look at his friend. "What do you think is recorded there?"

"No clue!" He closed the book. "But I know it will be something good. I feel it."

As they finished their talk, Ren entered the room, eager to announce that he had indeed just finished restoring the contents of the old tape.

"Maybe some parts will be cut off, but I managed to save most of it. Good thing the tape hadn't unreeled with the time. It seems old." He guided the boys to his desk, where his computer showed an audio data of sorts.

"That's fine. Any information about Mew is good enough." Goh said as Ren sat down on his chair as both boys leaned expectantly at the screen while he hovered the play button.

As Ren was about to press play, an alarmed group of employees entered the room screaming, making the group turn their full attention to them.

"It's horrible! The Pokemon at the park are being stolen!" One of them said, tense with the news he had just given.

"They came in a balloon and broke the dome!" The other cried, holding her head in shock.

"They are using a weird machine to suck in the pokemon into it!" The shorter of the three screamed.

"Team Rocket!" Ash and Goh said in unison.

"We tried what we could to stop them, but it's impossible! The machine is too powerful!" The short one said again, shocked by the villainous machine's power.

"We'll take care of it!" Ash said as he and Goh ran out of the room. Ren followed after them.

"You three stay here and be careful!" He said as he too left the office to help the boys in the fight.

The three ran as fast as they could to the park area, worried for the pokemon's safety, thinking how they would deal with Team Rocket's new machine without destroying more of the park, worrying about how many pokemon they had already taken. And when they arrived, they found... nothing?

Ren, Goh and Ash looked at the Park as the pokemon went about as they normally did, playing, eating, resting and training. The dome was completely intact and nothing hinted that Team Rocket had been around.

"I don't get it, where's Team Rocket?" Ash asked in confusion.

"Why would those new employees lie about something like that?" Goh added to the wondering.

"AH!" Ren shouted, remembering something very important. "We don't have new employees!"

The kids didn't understand, what he meant by that? They just saw three employees dressed in uniforms that told them about—

"TEAM ROCKET!"

They run back to the office, just realizing they left the computer with the very important recording about Mew whereabouts alone with a villainous trio! They arrive at Ren's desk only to find it completely empty, they took it. They took—

"MY COMPUTER!?"

"Did we really needed to steal everything? Couldn't we just copy the audio file into the Rotom Phone?" James asked as Meowth is connecting the CPU to the energy outlet of the cabin they were using as a hideout in the moment.

"Do what with the what?" Jessie asked. She didn't understand how they could take something from that big machine and put on something as small as the Rotom Phone. Then again, she didn't understand how a Rotom was put there in the first place.

"This way we don't need to find another keyboard, mouse or monitor. Why make things harder for us when they had everything we needed?"; Meowth finished messing with the wires and tapped the power button in the computer and climbed on Wobbuffet to be able to look at the monitor on the desk.

The quartet all stared at the screen. It made a pretty sound and the desktop screen lit up. Meowth started opening all the folders that were visible on desktop, trying to find where even the recording could be. They passed by lots, lots of photos of François, the Magnemite; some downloads of their radio show —aww, we have a fan—; information about Goh's pokemon; a shopping list that included lots of antiques and finally! The file they were looking for! Conveniently titled "Misterious recording about Mew that Go found". Meowth clicked the file, opening an audio player program and without waiting, pressed play.

"Hi everyone! I'm Miyamoto! This is the peak of the highest mountain in this—"

The audio was corrupted, like Ren said some parts would be .

"—ountain range. Now please look to your right. It's right before dawn, and is freezing cold. It should be sum— but the mountains offer only blizzards. But it's all right. I, Miyam—— will give my best!"

The woman in the recording sighs before speaking in a whisper.

"I wonder how many years it's been since then though..."

The recording is silent for a few seconds after that, only the sound of the wind howling and the occasional glitch caused by the restoration being heard.

"I've become separated from the other Team Rocket members."

Team Rocket? The woman in the recording is a member of Team Rocket? Miyamoto.. from Team Rocket. Couldn't be...

"The only pers— —ccompanying me is the picture of my daugh—"

The door from the cabin was kicked open. The twerps had found them!

Goh called out his Cinderace while Ash commanded Pikachu to attack. James pulled out a pokeball and told Jessie to get ready. She didn't hear. She was paying attention to the recording that still kept going.

"—ter whom I left behind as a small child."

It is her. That's...

She couldn't think as Pikachu's thunderbolt made direct contact with her and her peers. They all fell on the ground, the effects of static taking place. She hears crying coming from the recording.

"Why didn't you call a pokemon?" James asked as he twitched in the ground next to her.

"I'm sorry, I was.." She stared as the other twerp, the one that is not Ash, moved to the computer. He was going to stop the audio. "Please don't!"

Goh didn't press the button and both kids looked at her. The recording goes on.

"But even if I'm like this, I'm going to wait."

"Let me hear the rest." She slowly gets back up, the effect of static still taking place.

"I'm going to keep on waiting."

"What, so you can hear where Mew is located at? No way!" Goh moves to press the mouse button.

"PLEASE NO!" Jessie cries. Ash had never seen her beg for something in all the years he has known Team Rocket. "I... I think that's my mother...."

"Yes, I'm waiting for —"

"You really expect us to believe that?" Goh asks, embarrassed that he even believed the first time when they were disguised. When he is decided on stopping this mess, Ash put a hand over his, stopping him from doing so. "What?"

"Let it play."

"Maybe I can see — if I wait here at th———"

"You believe her?" Goh asks. Of course Ash would. He always gives them the benefit of doubt, but c'mon. It's Mew they're talking about!

"I believed such a legend."

"If they try anything we stop them." He answered, looking at Jessie, who moved closer to the desk, as if looking at the screen would make the audio clearer. "But I don't think she is lying." Goh lets go of the mouse and Ash of his hand, he does admit she looks almost... vulnerable.

"A phantom Pokémon will definitely make money. I'm going to make —ney, I promise you that!"

"Jess?" James and Meowth move closer to her now that the effect of static is finally wearing off. Her focus is still completely on the image of the audio waves and how they move when Miyamoto speaks.

"Huh? The blizzard.. it stopped... Oh... it's sunrise... The sun is rising!"

Both the boys and their starters sit at the ground, near the quartet of thieves and start to pay attention to the recordings as well.

"The — mountain is gleaming silver. It's just like a mountain of coins! Now, that feels good!"

A chime is heard.

"That's..."

A pokemon's cry is heard from the computer. Goh's ears perk up at the sound. He would recognize it anywhere.

"You're...you're Mew!"

Goh gets up, excited that that's indeed Mew! He knew that the tape had good stuff in it. He is about to talk and gush and... And stop that audio! Team Rocket can't know more than that!

"My, you look sooo gentle. So you're Mew. Oh, hey look...look at thi— icture."

Goh stops when he sees Jessie slightly shaking.

"This is my daughter, her name is Jessie. Isn't she cute?"

She feels her breath trapped in a hiccup. But she doesn't cry. Mew does.

"Yeah...oh hey —ill you let me capture you? Please? Nursery school, kindergar— child care cost money."

Jessie can hear her teammates starting to tear up. But she pays attention to the screen still, how the images move as the sound of the blowing wind are heard again.

"Huh? Where are you going? —ou're leaving? Hey you! Wait up. —won't let you do that. Once I hear talk of profits, I'm not going let this chance go!"

As the sound of the blizzard picks up, James places a hand on his mouth, trying to muffle his crying. He can't help but feel bad for Jessie. Even if she doesn't show it right now, he knows this must hurt.

"Huh? Where are you going?"

A heavy crunchy sound can be heard. And It's coming closer. Is that an avalanche?

"What? This ——ad! What? Am I going to fall? After all—"

The sound of snow overcomes Miyamoto's scream. Mew cries one last time before the recording ends.

The room is silent saved for James and Meowth quiet crying. No one dares to speak for a while. Jessie breaths over the knot in her throat.

"Thank you for letting me listen to it." She doesn't look at the boys.

"I'm... I'm sorry for not believing you..." Goh feels so guilty now. "And.. for your.." He can't say it.

"It's fine. I don't remember much about her anyway." Jessie answers, understanding what the young boy was struggling to say.

"Doesn't mean it doesn't hurt." Ash reply made everyone look at him. Even Jessie who was avoiding eye contact with everyone. "I, uh.." He was so nervous with everyone staring at him like that. What did he say that was so weird?

"It's true." Meowth saved him of explaining more. "I never had a family. But that doesn't mean I didn't want one."

"Pika-pika pikachu-pika pikachu."

"Exactly." Meowth agreed.

"What did he say?" Goh asked.

"That even if you've chosen to part ways with someone, you are still allowed to miss them."

"It seems all of us have some family problems." James said mid tears. He couldn't stop them from coming.

"I guess... I do miss her." Jessie finally admitted. "Even if I don't remember much about how she was. How she looked..." She stared back at the screen and smiled. "At least now I will remember how she sounds."