On an average day in Alola, under the hot sun on the island of Melemele, the locals in town had a list of things to do on the first day of their weekend known as Saturday. People were either out on the beach, out on the trails of route 2 that circles the island itself, and plenty of sightseeing to do so! Despite the population is solely made up of adventurous souls to really live their day, there are just some people deep within the cracks of the island who aren't actually having a blast under Alola's weather,  there are those who watch TV with the blinds all close, those who watch the waves roll with an ice cream cone in one hand, and those who prepare themselves for a lazy day off with convenient store snacks. It's not common for Team Rocket to all agree on the idea to take the day off as a whole, but there's been an agreement that it will help them recharge their batteries, so its a done deal. The no-good group that's known for stealing Pokémon quietly pick out junk food that is to be enjoyed during an afternoon. Chips, soda, snack cakes, and Liquorice.

"Jessie. I found the root beer, how many bottles should I go ahead and grab?" Asked James who didn't even make any eye contact whatsoever. His attention focused on the mini sale on bottled soda. The woman he was talking to also didn't make any contact either. Their focus was so far in line, it was as if they were in a mission in a sci-fi movie about to surprise attack an undercover agent.

"How much it?"

"... Two bucks, but if ya buy two of em', they cost three fifty." Meowth tips the large glasses on his face to take a look at the price tag with a bargain sticker attached to it, which a long pause ensued.

"All of them." Just like that, six bottles of root beer has been purchased with a bucket-sized bundle of Twizzlers licorice, and two large bags of potato chips and Doritos, they stepped out into the heating air and strolled through the street with bags of their snacks in their hands.

"Well then! Now that we're loaded up, I say we should kick back with our boots off with a little cable TV!" Meowth smiled, responsible for carrying the bottles of root beer. Wobbuffet held the licorice, chirping,

"Wobbuffet!"

"So anyway, there is one last stop on this trip if I can remind you. That's to pick up our pizza!"

James before screaming a certain phrase most people should be aware of to avoid handling a certain task...

"Not it!" The man quickly tags out, Meowth, and even Wobbuffet chimed in to avoid the extra effort to pick up a delicious pie most people enjoy for lunch and dinner.

"What?! No fair!" Jessie hissed, upset she was hung out to dry so sudden and so unwillingly, but she was caught in a rather childish act of tradition.

She didn't have many options, so she crossed a walking sign at an intersection to find a good pizza place called, "Rollin' Doughs Pizza!" that wasn't far from where she was walking too, but still didn't appreciate the fact she was rather forced to pick the pizza up. When she did step inside the restaurant she saw a man she didn't expect to run into for quite a while.

"J-Jessilina?... Is-Is that really you?..."

The man behind the counter notices Jessie's undercover disguise and slowly made eye contact with the man who somehow knows her name.

"... Why... Hello there..."

She dimly opened her mouth trying to act as casually as she could to avoid any concern. She even wondered who the heck was this guy, blurting his name out in public, right in front of all those trying to enjoy a meal.

"I-It's me! Mateo! You're the one who rescued my life!.."

Suddenly, it all now made sense. It was the same young man who Jessie herself was forced to rescue the man after spraining his ankle on the water noticed her eyes under the shade of her glasses she wore. She felt as if she was going to be exposed, and was even gonna make a run for it before Mateo could really say something out loud that could get her in trouble.

"Excuse everyone, I have something important I think you all should have a listen to. We have a hero in the pizza palace! This women by the name of Jessilina has saved my life from collapsing in Alola's beautiful sea, let's give a round of applause!"

A sudden wave of clapping of everyone in the building, even staff, and cooks joined in, Jessie blushing over the irony of being praised for her good unintentional deed. She could only muster a little wave to the direction of clapping, before ordering the pizza she intended to purchase before being put out in the open like that. She took out some money out of her purse to pay for her order, but Mateo raised his hand as if it wouldn't be necessary.

"No need Jessilina! This one is on the house!"

Hearing she'll get the meal for free actually relieved her a little bit. She hoped that she was now even with Mateo before the left the restaurant and the man himself. When her order was called, she was in no way to stand around waiting any longer, she grabbed the pizza and turned around, but Mateo suddenly caught her last attention before she could leave.

"S-sorry Jessilina... You might be busy after eight o'clock tonight, but... I was wondering... If you wanted to go out or to that new bar in town or something..?"

Jessie didn't even consider as much thought there as she did over 20 minutes ago, she quickly answered a yes, before rushing out of the restaurant. She might have opened the door a little too quickly as she pushed the door open, which she ended up thumping an elbow of a certain... character of the certain group numbskulls besides Team Rocket themselves.

"Oiie! Watch where you're swinging shit open!"

A member of the one and only Team Skull, Wrap help her bruised elbow, giving Jessie a piece of her mind for the sudden action. Since Jessie was still flushed from earlier, so she didn't bother to apologize. She shook her head and walked away while saying,

"Maybe you shouldn't have been standing so close to a door in the first place."

That really have ticked off the other two companions Wrap is usually seen with, Tupper and Zip. They stepped in to defend the member from the extra rude Jessie, so they start chewing her off for her action.

"Now listen, I don't care what's going through the lotion of your ridiculous hair color of yours, but I don't appreciate you actin' all that!"

"Yea! What my big bro said!"

Jessie didn't have time to pile on the fight between them, so she slowly turns around and spot at their direction and even had the nerve to say,

"... Pizza to you too."

She walked away with the pizza she had come all the way for, which the three did not sit well with that, but surprisingly didn't start any commotion as they would. They must've had something on their schedule to restrain themselves from doing so. They were only able to manage a warning at her.

"You're lucky for now! The next time we run into you, things won't be so pretty next time!"

Jessie walked away, ignoring the threat the group was making, and return to the Team Rocket base for the rest of the day. The rest of the day for the troublemakers actually consisted of them watching tv and stuffing their faces with the snacks they have previously purchased earlier ago. Despite eating a fourth of the pizza and an entire bag of Doritos, she still had the appetite for a meal with Mateo, so she ends up changing into rather formal wear for a date, but not overdoing where it's straight up for a job interview, she puts a hair in a bun and slips on the smudge-free glasses on stepping out, while James, Meowth, and Wobbuffet kicked back watching Wishcash on MTV.

Walking through town to find a newly opened Italian bar, Jessie was rather silent and pacing, rather than being her loud, moving self. Sitting at a pretty fountain where Jessie had halfway crossed were the three Team Skull grunts that had a bone to pick with her after what had just happened hours from then.

"And den' I said, this lemonade tasted like lemon-AIDS!"

Tupper jokes around as Wrap and Zip broke into laughter after a rude follow-up pun. Jessie cringed to the joke, but all she could do to avoid anything that could start up trouble was to roll her eyes, but Wrap ends up catching her eye from before and stood up.

"Hey, you! Yeah, you. Think you could walk all up in our territory and not start anything?"

Jessie was in no mood for their quarrels and games, so she kept moving without saying a word, but the boys ended up stepping in her way with glares that is really going to start trouble. Jessie was a tad surprised they would pull something as sudden as that, but she knew she had little choices to defend herself. She stepped back, tightly gripping her purse, she took out her Luxury Ball, which exactly knew where this was going. The grunts took out their own Pokéballs, a battle was rising in the air.

"Mimikyu! You show these lowkey simpletons your power!"

The creepy Pokémon was sent out for battle, its head leaned to the side, the grunts ended up choosing Salandit which belonged to Tupper, Zubat for Wrap, and Garbodor for Zip.

"We'll be takin' da first move because you walked into our territory in the first place! Salandit use Venoshock!"

"Wing Attack, Zubat!"

"Toxic, Garbodor!"

Mimikyu dodges both the poisonous attacks but was right into the Zubat, hit with a light blow. Mimikyu wasn't all in pain, but Wrap found enjoyment from the landing shot, so she snickered, followed by a little squeak.

"Yeah, you ain't so tough! Next time I'd be lookin' both ways before you come looking for trouble!"

Jessie and her anger rose, hearing Wrap taunt, blocking the way in which blocks her trail which led her into town. She was upset not because these were complicated Pokémon trainers or anything, but because they were roadblocks and their efforts keeping Jessie in the back online stretched out time.

"Mimikyu, Shadow Claw!"

Mimikyu slips by right into the front of their opponents and manages to slash all three of its targets in one sitting. It hops right back to Jessie's side, its eyes sparkling from its successful accomplishment.

"Hah! I knew it! Your pathetic Pokémon are no match for my Mimikyu! I even find it humiliating it takes the efforts of three just to pin it down!"

Jessie laughed, mostly to throw the grunts off focus, but they seem to be intact of all things. Wrap steps forward and takes on her next move.

"Hope ya saved that smug face on a photo, cause I'm about to wipe it off right now! Supersonic!"

Going on the statics side, Zubut lands a wave of eerie sound right at Mimikyu, which now became uneasy on its feet. Jessie gasped, the grunts laughed, now a set was coursed for a little payback now...

"Where's that grimy look now?? Use Flame Burst Salandit!"

"Garbodor, Sludge Bomb!"

Mimikyu was caught right into both attacks, which flung it back right into the bushes, leaving Jessie defenseless, she stepped back, the grunts took a step towards her.

"You still think we're all a bunch of jokers ehh? We Team Skull! We kill down to the bone, and you will only be our next victim!"

"Yeah, what my big bro said! We'll send you to the hospital with your nose up yo ass so you'll go through surgery smelling it!"

"... Good one, Zip!"

Before the three could end the battle with one last move, everyone that was on the side of Team Skull found themselves entangled in these glowing purple roots, which fogs a purple haze from them.

"Get your hands off Jessilina you filthy crooks."

Jessie stepped back, looking at whoever might have saved her. She imagined it may have been both James and Meowth who have stepped in with a gadget that's gonna be used to catch the class's Pokémon, but it was not. It was the young man himself, Mateo, standing right beside him was a Trevenant, who didn't look like a pushover.

"Who the hell you think you are??"

Tupper struggled to let himself free, but the roots were way too long to simply slip out of. Mateo blinked, his face also meant business, but he aims his hand somewhat how Trevenant's was, controlling the purple vines, and then smirks.

"I am Mateo, you are currently trapped in a Forest's curse. I'm going to be putting an end to this game, I have plans of my own if I'm not rude. Trevenant, Hidden Power!"

Light white energy orbs suddenly form around the spooky tree Pokémon, which launches them at a high velocity, knocking out all three Pokémon in one shot each. The grunts were free from the ghoulish roots, which they returned their Pokémon and made a run for it.

"You haven't heard the last of us punk!"

"We'll be back stronger than that twig you call a Pokémon!"

Mateo took their warning with a grain of salt, who turns to Jessie also returning Mimikyu into its Luxury Ball, she made eye contact with him despite being hesitant about it and muttered.

"Thank you."

Mateo smiled to know Jessie was in peace after that whole episode.

"No worries, I never underestimate Treveant's power!"

"Trevvv..."

"Yup! Forest's Curse, by the way, is a move which turns any Pokémon into a Grass-type just like that! Followed by a Flying-type Hidden power knocks the socks off of almost anything!"

"... What an impressive combo..."

Jessie had a small blush, looking away from Mateo with a frown after he ends up blushing himself, and nervously giggled. He returns Trevenant back into its Pokéball and walked toward the place they both had intended to go!

"C' mon Jessilina! I'm ready for a relaxing evening now!"

Jessie was still on the point of turning away from this goofball and go back to the base, but the least she could do for his attention and rescue is to give him what he had asked, so she joins him for a couple of drinks at the newly opened Italian bar only a block away. Which they did, a night with classical piano music was just what the ordered.