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James arrived back on the beach to find everyone gone, their towels were still there but that was all. Frowning slightly he walked over to the towels and dumped the stuff he was carrying on to them before looking around trying to spot someone. He heard laughter and glanced out to sea to see Butch and Cassidy swimming about a little way out.
They were splashing each and generally just mucking around, James smiled slightly at the show before remembering there was still no sign of Jessie or Meowth. He started walking along the beach away from the towels glancing from side to side trying to spot some sign of his two friends but not having much luck.
He was beginning to get worried what if something had happened to them, he shook his head he wasn't even going to think about that. He looked back and was surprised to find that he could no longer see the towels, it didn't feel like he'd walked so far.
He was about to start heading back, thinking that they mat be back by now, when he heard a shout from further up the beach, recognising Jessie's voice he broke into a run and dashed to where he heard the shout coming from.
He arrived to find Jessie holding a pokeball in one hand and patting Arbok on the head with the other, she was grinning happily. Meowth was sitting nearby with a shocked look on his face.
James smiled slightly happy to see Jessie was safe and happy, he walked up to her and said, "What's going on?"
Jessie stopped patting Arbok and turned to James grinning all the while. "I did it, I caught another pokemon." James grinned back at her, he could tell she was really happy about it.
"Great, what is it?"
"A Seel." With that she called out her newly caught pokemon, the white seal pokemon sat on the sand looking up at his new owner, knowing with out a doubt that this woman would never treat him badly. The Seel walked over to were Jessie stood and rubbed his head against her leg, the small horn on his head brushing gently against her as he tried to get her attention.
Jessie bent down and stroked the pokemon the head gently, when she noticed a small mark on the pokemon's left flipper. Frowning slightly she called to James over to look at it. He bent down to take a closer look at the mark and frowned lightly as he tried to work out what it was. Suddenly it came to him,
"Jessie, I think it's some kind of tattoo."
"A tattoo? Why would someone put a tattoo on a pokemon?"
"Some form of identification perhaps."
"Could be."
Meowth walked over to take a look as well and said, "I can just about make it out it says TR398."
"I wonder what that stands for." James said, sitting down on the sand, as he started to stroke the Seel's head as well.
"It's most likely that the TR part stands for Team Rocket, but I've no idea what the rest of it's all about." Jessie said, shaking her head softly.
"I know, " James said, grinning, "Meowth why don't you ask it how it got here."
Jessie grinned at James, "That's a really good idea James, will you try it Meowth?"
The cat pokemon nodded before turning to the Seel and saying. "Meow Meowth Meow?"
"Seel Seel."
"Meowth Meow."
"Seel Seel Seel." Meowth nodded and turned back to the humans, a frown on his furry face.
"Well?" James asked.
"He said that he used to live with a nasty person, but then two nice people came and rescued him, and then he was released here and told that he was free."
James frowned and said, "So what does that mean?"
"I'm guessing that another team most of stolen him, given him to The Boss and he must have given him to the Doc, but for the life of me I can't work out why they would release any pokemon back into the wild. Especially when The Boss is always going on about how we have to steal as many pokemon as possible." Jessie said with a sigh.
"I'm confused." James said, softly.
"That's nothing new." Meowth said, with a laugh.
"Do you think all the stolen pokemon are brought here?" James asked.
"Who knows, But I think we should tell Butch and Cassidy about this." Jessie replied
"You do?" James said in surprise.
"Yeah, maybe they know something, or can think of something that will make sense of all of this." With that Jessie stood up and recalled both Arbok and Seel, and clipped both pokeballs next to the one with Lickitung in it. James stood up as well and the three of them started back up the beach to where they had left Butch and Cassidy.