Almost two whole years has passed, Anya has been droning in the office work amongst the Human populace with a nine to five schedule and a bit overtime every now and then. Anya had saved up a considerable amount of money with the plan of opening up a tailoring store herself, there just was a little problem, a Pokémon could not own a business, everything needed to be owned by a Human as a liability and insurance.

  After the first year of working at the Rocket Corp did Faesol join Anya in her apartment, but she only stayed for a month before getting too bored and wanting back into Oak's Laboratory. Anya understood, but it didn't make it any easier for her to let her go, she really liked to have Faesol around.

  The biggest change in these past years were that Anya had finally embraced her inner Pokémon, she had been mulling over the last sentence Celebi had said to her and had had a few conversations with Samuel about herself and her past, the conclusion they arrived was that she should not deny herself the opportunity to be a Pokémon, to be more specific to be the Anya as Arceus intended.

  Anya mulled over at what being a true Anya would be, she wasn't sure at what that really even meant, she was using some of her free time at home to be herself, no mask to hide herself, no need to please anyone, just Anya and her bug-like body made of Pokémon magic. She had found out that, even if she didn't like fighting others, she still loved using moves, they were like magic to her, she could make something out of nothing, even if the only easily visible Pokémon magic moves she could use were Razor Leaf, which launched sharp leaves out her cutters or String Shot from her mouth.

  She has been curious as to what other moves she could do, but she didn't remember any of the Technical Machines or Hidden Machines a Leavanny could use except the obvious HM, cut. If she couldn't own a business, maybe she could buy some TMs to learn some new moves, she had once asked Samuel about how TMs really worked on Pokémon and if they were just a shortcut to learn the moves instead. To Anya's surprise, Samuel had given Anya a small lecture about TMs on how they are made and how they work.

  What caught Anya off guard was that the knowledge that the TMs themselves were detrimental to a Pokémon's long term growth as using TMs to teach a move make's it harder for the Pokémon to learn new moves more naturally, Samuel said that it had to do something with Pokémon psychology and how it really wasn't his area of expertise.

  The revelations that she could learn the moves herself, gave her some spark to actually go outside to train, not to battle per se but doing more regular exertion, she found the physical exercises fun, at first she shyly jogged at the track to maintain a steady pace, but a few months later she was sprinting laps with her enhanced agility reaching speeds she never knew she could achieve.

  Something inside of her felt satisfied with her exerting herself to the limits, the hidden need was satisfied and she felt great, more sure of herself afterwards. She even had a small fan club who came to watch her run every now and then.

  She once approached the odd group who came to watch her run with a stack of pre-written sheets of paper, she found out that they were part of the track and field club of a nearby school. They were amazed on her running and one of them even commented that Anya looked like she was truly enjoying herself while running and wanted to find the same kind of bliss while running themselves. In short, they were studying Anya's method of running, her stance and breathing to take notes.

  Anya wasn't sure if Pokémon running techniques could help with Human running, due to being partly a magical entity but, she couldn't really tell if how inhuman could a person get in Pokémon, she thought about Ash from the anime, how he could easily lift tens of kilograms or throwing a damn log in one of the Hoenn episodes.

  In the end Anya felt more affirmed of herself after every exercise, she could feel some of the growth she had gained in the past year of exercise, one of the biggest gain was that she had actually learned new moves. One of them being Double Team, she found out as one of her observers noted to her that she had made afterimages while running, quipping that it was the beginning of the move itself.

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  As Anya's contract with the Rocket Corporation was going to end in a few months the whole building was in an exciting buzz from early in the morning, Anya did not know what was going on, after an hour in the office an announcement from the PA system called everyone in the whole building into assembly. A moment later almost everyone was seated inside the lecture hall, the place was filled to the brim, few people stood stoically on the sides, Anya included.

  There was a low chatter as some people were excited about something before suddenly all the lights went out of the room quieting the whole room, a short while later a spotlight turned on to the empty front podium, a moment later a well dressed man walked into the spotlight and a round of applause started, Anya too recognized the man, it was her boss, Giovanni.

  With a wave of hand he silenced the crowd, he waited a moment, cleared his throat and began his speech.

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  The speech started with a simple greetings and congratulations, "...My time as an Elite Four substitute has come to an end and now I can focus more on our company and expanding our business, I have not been inactive on my duties as a the CEO of Rocket Corporation..."

  He continued his speech, looking at the audience every now and then, Anya even caught Giovanni giving her a smirk as their eyes met. "...We have acquired another business plot and I plan on remodeling the place into a Huge Pachinko Parlor, biggest in all of Indigo, Four floor of goodness in the center of Celadon..."

  Giovanni then talked about the details of the whole expansion and how he was going to contact some people who could be supervising their business in the Celadon Game Corner. "...We also have other possible expansion opportunities that I have negotiated with the Indigo League such as the Sevii Islands and..."

  Towards the end of the speech as Giovanni kept talking about the future of the Corporation, Anya was slowly getting drowsy, she has never been a huge fan of long seemingly endless speeches, she however did connect that some of these locations that Giovanni had mentioned did have a Team Rocket base or a hideout in the games which kept her aware enough as there might be some crucial information she might miss. She didn't know if all of them were going to be Team Rocket fronts or not in the future.

  "Before I finish, could the following people come to my office after this gathering. Ariana, Archer, Petrel and... Anya." hearing her name being announced by Giovanni caught her off guard and she stumbled a step backwards, her abdomen hitting the wall behind her with a soft thump "...The Rocket Corporation thanks you for your work and effort, dismissed" the meeting ended with a thunderous applause as Giovanni left the room.

  Anya barely able to stand in place, her body having a bug-like twitching due to nervousness. No one really bothered with her as they were excitedly leaving the assembly hall.

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  Anya was the last one to enter Giovanni's office it took her a good while to recover from the recent revelations, she had recognized the name 'Archer' as one of Giovanni's executives from the games, she had a premonition that something big was going to happen at the office today and she was mentally preparing herself.

  Anya carefully glanced around the room, nothing seems out of place, even Giovanni himself was calmly sitting behind a table calmly petting a purring Meowth on his lap radiating confidence, he didn't seem upset that Anya took her time to get here at least on the outside. The red haired woman Ariana standing next to Giovanni on the other hand glared daggers at Anya, she didn't dare to open her mouth as Giovanni was nearby.

  The two other who were called Archer and Petrel were standing on the opposite sides of the room. Archer having an uncommon cyan hair color and Petrel too having a purple hair. Anya wondered for a moment, why all of these important people have a strikingly different hair color. Before she could wonder too long, the door behind her locked with an audible click causing Anya to jump in place.

  With a soft hum, a wave of psychic energy washed over the room, enveloping everyone inside. Petrel finally opened his mouth "Chill Anya, chill" he said in a low laid back tone. "You are making a mess in front of the boss" he said with barely a whisper, but as the whole room was dead silent except for the occasional purr of the Meowth, everything was heard clearly by everyone in the room.

  A low chuckle escaped the man of the room, finding something amusing in Anya's peculiarity. Giovanni already had a hunch that Anya's weird information might have come from the future, he had also taken a sneak peek at the league's files on Anya when he was substituting as an elite four, something or someone in the room had caused Anya to be uncomfortable like this and he loved its implication.

  Giovanni cleared his throat and stopped petting the Meowth, who jumped off and left the room through a hidden small door with a flap.

  "Archer. Petrel. Ariana. And lastly. Anya" He said while he looked at each of them for a few seconds before moving towards the next one, the final one being Anya herself, Anya still was a nervous mess.

  "I know, this is a lot to ask, but I have had enough of our upper management. I plan to do something about it and I would like to have your immediate help on the matter"

  The first to reply was Ariana "I'm in" she said simply.

  Archer was quick to follow Ariana with a sharp nod.

  "So, the boss needs to go? Rumors have it that her right hand has gone missing for a while already and most of her standard operations have either been suspended or called off" said Petrel knowingly

  All of their eyes gathered on the nervous wreck of the jittering bug-type, having embraced her inner Pokémon made it all the more difficult to actually stay still and reel in her emotions as a unfortunate side effect.

  Giovanni patiently waited for a while for Anya to gain control of herself, he was a bit puzzled of Anya's change in these past years while reading some reports from his contacts at the office. Ariana scowled at Anya in disgust but did not utter a sound to not disrespect Giovanni, it was not her place to say anything right now, no matter how much she wanted to. Petrel was more neutral towards Anya, casually leaning on the wall and while Archer ignored her.

  Anya's mind was running on overdrive as she tried to understand the implications of the situation that was currently happening, she had to do something and soon, she just wasn't sure what is the right thing to do.

  She was secretly quite honored to be included with the aforementioned group which consisted of future Team Rocket leaders. Something odd was going on and Anya didn't know what, she focused her eyes on Giovanni, who met her eyes, he had this expecting smirk on his face and seemed like it was a done deal that Anya would join him, which at first seemed like a bad decision to her, but somehow she couldn't really deny it, something in Giovanni, be it his leadership or charm pulled Anya's mind to accept his offer.

  It took her a while but she straightened her back and gave him the best salute she could muster under such pressure, whilst thinking at the same time that, maybe, just maybe joining Team Rocket wasn't going to be that bad. And if nothing else she could change how it went herself.