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Rainbow Fever! Or: Team Rainbow Rocket in the EBWT AU

This is for the AU I posted about, but have been fleshing out for a while! i develloped a bit for the Team RR arc to go with it!

That's right! I’ll show you how I’d include Team Rainbow Rocket for the AU, or rather, how I’d make them worse, plus making them appear in the anime as a bonus.

Team Rainbow Rocket was one of the best Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon stuff. But WOW did the writers do them dirty in the anime. They. Did. Not. Even. SHOW! UP!

Here’s how I’d give them a bit more of an impact in the Everything's Better with Triplets AU.

I do not own all fanart used in this

Setting up the Rainbow Arc

Giovanni is gonna have his USUM design in this anime. He and Giovanni are the same person here.

The members of Team RR are gonna have the most changes.

since this AU's characterization of Ghetsis is characterized more like his b2w2 counterpart, Maxie and Archie are closer to their ORAS characterization here. And they have their ORAS designs.

In this AU, Archie and Team Aqua are more stupid, disorganized and ambitious with little regard for reality and the repercussions of their actions, while Maxie and Team Magma are more level-headed and logical. Maxie is more logical in that sense, almost like he's a babysitter to Archie and tries to keep him in line since Archie has no regard for anything other than his own goals.

Also, Maxie is hella gay and is dating Archie. So he's a babysitter and a boyfriend.

As for Cyrus and Lysandre, i might have to revise certain aspects regarding their basic background/backstory to better fit into the au?

Faba is also a member of Team RR. But full time, this time. Faba hates Team RR for being borderline sociopaths, and he refuses to go along with any of their plans. But Giovanni says it wouldn't really matter since Faba is not included in their ranks.

Also, Major Blanc is back. And apart of their ranks.

Fed up with recurring nightmares about both Team Plasma and the Aether Foundation, Crispin runs away from home, only to get captured by Team Rainbow Rocket. They make him into Major Blanc again, and subject all of Crispin's Pokemon to the Shadow Pokémon process.

Also, they have 2 new members - Courtney and Tabitha. Yup, I'm bringing back Courtney and Tabitha.

These two were also dragged along with Maxie, but it isn't on purpose.

They tag along with Maxie.

Courtney, Maxie's right-hand woman, is just as psychotic-yet-childlike as she was in ORAS. Tabitha is basically the same haughty, smug person, but now a bit ditzy (yup, Tabitha is non-binary in the anime).

this kind of makes Maxie and his Admins a bit of a parallel to the TRio dynamic.

their dynamic in a nutshell is just: "Surrender to us now..." "...or someone is going to die." "Of fun!"

Major Blanc's dynamic with Team Magma is that Maxie quickly deems him an annoyance but keeps him around for his unorthodox thinking.

This brings the Terrible Trio of Maxie, Courtney and Tabitha's numbers up to four, but Major Blanc's clearly a wildcard who’ll flip on him if it’s convenient.

Rainbow Fever - Part 1

(This two parter comes around later in Ultra Legends, to the point of it coming before "the Sun, Moon and Everyone's Dreams!")

-The episode opens with Crispin having a nightmare about Team Plasma.

-Once he wakes up, Crispin talks to Cress about his nightmares

-Cress decides he has stress

-Cue the theme!

-At the Pokémon school, Crispin complains about having nightmares about Aether Foundation, which Ash, Lillie, Mallow, Lana, Kiawe, and Sophocles get on his case for.

-Crispin walks off with Cilan, unaware that they are being watched…

-Cut to none other than Giovanni watching them, and people show up. None other than Archie, Maxie, Cyrus, Lysandre, Courtney, Tabitha, Ghetsis and Faba!

-Giovanni asks what they think of Ash's classmates, and they predict they will be abysmal.

-Ghetsis then says they bring "someone" back, which everyone but Faba agrees with.

-Maxie compliments Giovanni's strategy.

-Crispin is more untalkative by the minute. His friends try to help, but everything they do only makes things worse.

-Then Cress accidentally upsets Crispin, who tells him he's done with these nightmares, and he runs off, crying.

-Crispin runs into the woods and is attacked by Team Rainbow Rocket Grunts.

-Cilan notices Crispin is gone.

-Then the triplets go to Wicke, she reports either Crispin or Faba are nowhere to be found.

-At her office, Lusamine hears knocking on the door. The person is Gladion, who asks if they have found Faba. Lusamine denies, so Gladion leaves. Lusamine stops Gladion, wishing to talk with him, who claims he does not have the time, since Faba could do his mischief. Lusamine explains they are searching for Faba, but Gladion ignores her and leaves.

-Team Rainbow Rocket have tied Crispin up. Suddenly, Faba comes across them, and demands that they let Crispin go. Giovanni refuses and says they are going to bring back Major Blanc

-Archie, Maxie, Cyrus, Lysandre, Tabitha, Courtney, and Ghetsis raise their hands, while Faba refuses to.

-The votes are 7-1, so Giovanni just goes by default.

-They make Major Blanc a thing again, and everyone just wants Major Blanc there while Faba wants an intern. In the scuffle, half of Major Blanc's uniform is torn, so they sew half a Aether uniform onto it.

-Maxie tells Major Blanc that they should dispose of his Pokemon. When Major Blanc refuses, Giovanni orders him held down and procures a "how to make Shadow Pokemon" manual from the library.

-Meanwhile, Cilan interrogates Kiawe, Ash, Lana, Lillie, Mallow, Sophocles, and Professor Kukui, and Burnet and learns that Crispin is gone.

-After piecing everything together, Cilan comes to the horrifying conclusion that Crispin was kidnapped!

-Meanwhile, Giovanni tells Cyrus, Lysandre, and Ghetsis to kidnap Ash's friends, Archie to cause drama, and Maxie, Tabitha, Courtney and Major Blanc to kidnap Ash himself.

-He gives them Netguns and Maxie the electric net

-Team Rocket are attempting to sell Malasadas near the school when they spot the trio. They know Maxie, but don't know who the heck the other two are. Maxie introduces them as Courtney and Tabitha

-While Meowth finds it difficult to believe that someone like Courtney is Maxie's right hand, James and Jessie become furious, realizing they are apparently going to be undermined by this new trio.

-After Team Rocket rips off their work uniforms and chants their motto, Maxie says they do better mottos than them.

-Then they does a parody of Team Rocket's very first motto.

-Near the Pokémon school, Mallow, Kiawe, Lana and Sophocles are hanging out. Just then, Lysandre flies in on a glider.

-He tells them he wants them. Kiawe threatens to use Inferno Overdrive on him, to which Lysandre just fires his net gun at the four of them.

-The Magma Quartet start brainstorming for ideas, and Major Blanc says they steal Pikachu first. They should dig a hole for Pikachu to fall in.

-They do so, and Maxie starts gloating about his plan. He, Tabitha and Courtney burst out laughing.

-Unfortunately, Maxie, Courtney, and Tabitha are all laughing so hard, Major Blanc forgets to steer them away from the hole trap they had set up. The trio falls in. The laughing stops at once.

-Maxie hates that they fell in his own trap.

-Then a cement truck pulls up. Mistaking the hole for a rather nasty pot hole in the middle of the road that he can't seem to fill, the driver fills the hole with wet cement.

-This causes the cement to splatter all over the three people in the hole

-"NO!" Maxie screams, him and the admins now covered in cement

-When they get out of the hole, Maxie is mad that they got covered in concrete ("On one hand, I got to dig a hole. On the other hand..." he gestures to himself, Tabitha and Courtney, "Look at us!", while Courtney and Tabitha decide to go with an alternate plan.

-At Po Town on Ula'ula Island, the grunts are lazing around the Shady House, while Plumeria (with her newly shortened pigtails to reflect her terrible fate in the alola league) is typing on her phone. Gladion is also there. Ghetsis says HELLO, Plumiera craps herself, and Gladion demands who he is.

-Without a word, Ghetsis decides to shoot Gladion with a net gun, too.

-A now cleaned up Maxie, disguised as a bush, uses a sling to throw a candy star. Ash's Pikachu wakes up, and eats the candy. It notices the trail coming to Faba's bush, who exclaims the plan is a success. Team Rocket is at their truck, trying to sell their food. Still, they comment about Faba the creep, and they prefer to work here than for him. Wobbuffet points at the bush, as Team Rocket notices Maxie and Pikachu. Meowth realizes he wants to steal Pikachu, though Jessie is more insulted that he disguised himself, which is something Team Rocket normally does. Regardless, Meowth and James plan on stealing the Pokémon before Maxie does. When at his reach, Maxie uses his net to capture Pikachu. Instead, he finds Wobbuffet in his net, much to his shock.

-Jessie calls Wobbuffet back, and retreats with James and Meowth.

-Meanwhile, Cyrus goes to Lillie's mansion. After talking to Hobbs, Lillie's butler, Cyrus gets a potato sack and throws it over Lillie's head.

-Maxie then goes to Akala Meadow with Major Blanc, Courtney and Tabitha, and is angry that another plan failed. One angry rant later, all four of them end up covered in red berry juice due to Maxie smashing a berry tree with a baseball bat

-As the trio laugh, Major Blanc is just confused. After Maxie absentmindedly, if grumpily, wipes down his glasses, Courtney concludes that the situation calls for "desperate measures".

-Later, the cleaned up quartet goes to Pikachu Valley. Maxie then grabs one of the Pikachu, who gets mad

-Whatever voltage that Pikachu was working at, it was apparently leagues more powerful than Ash's Pikachu.

-Maxie is then seen covered in soot and with frizzy hair.

-"Any other bright ideas?" he coughs out

-Meanwhile, Archie goes to the police as they asked him if he was lost or something but Archie just refuses and sends his Sharpedo after them.

-After more unsuccessful attempts to steal Pikachu, Maxie decides Team Magma really needs to step it up.

-So they attempt to shoot Ash with Major Blanc's paintball gun. Major Blanc refuses to do so, and he shoots Maxie in the foot with paint. Maxie demands that he obey him. "Not anymore," he whispers before opening fire with a cackle

-Burnet goes to the police station as Archie explains that they are on a break. He then sends his Sharpedo atter her as Burnet runs and Archie makes it back to the Resort.

-When they stop running, Maxie is covered from head to toe in multiple colors of paint. As are Courtney and Tabitha. Maxie thinks things can’t get any worse.

-But they can… Much worse!

-They’re then chased by the Bewear who'd normally bother Team Rocket.

-They jump in a river to escape.

-Team Magma ends up panicking because they're about to fall off a waterfall. As they fall off the waterfall, Maxie angrily yells about his hatred for Giovanni.

-Cut to Giovanni baking cakes. Just then, the people he sent out come back. Maxie, Tabitha and Courtney are soaked, paint smeared, filthy wrecks ready to flatten Giovanni with a steamroller if one were available.

-They roast Giovanni for sending them with Major Blanc.

-"You told us Major Blanc would watch over us," Maxie says with a sneer, "but I guess he did the opposite…"

-Team RR places Ash's kidnapped friends in prison-like cages.

-As for Gladion, he's imprisoned as well.

-The episode just ends with Team RR laughing

Rainbow Fever - Part 2

-According to the recap, the events of the last episode apparently happened LITERALLY a day after "To Z to Shining Z!". Oops.

-Cue the happy theme

-Giovanni holds a meeting with his members, and Maxie whines that being evil is way harder than you’d think, as the last episode.

-Giovanni states if he wonders if Major Blanc betraying them has anything to do with the three boys that Ash has been hanging out with as of late. He shows them a photo of the Striation Triplets, and tell me Team RR won't react the same way they did in this fanart:

-Anyway, Maxie demands what else Giovanni knows and Giovanni holds a piece of paper and inadvertently blurts out, via his nervousness, that Maxie is gay.

-The other Rainbow Rocket members aren't that surprised though. Maxie tries to cover his tracks, and digs himself into a hole.

-Giovanni concocts a scheme to take down as many people as he and the other Rainbow members can

-Courtney and Tabitha come in, and Maxie greets them.

-"Listen, there's no way that halitosis-riddled Team Rocket is going to win," Maxie says haughtily. "I've got the superior trio, in brains, brawn, and beauty. Team Rocket doesn't hold a candle to us, not in a million years."

-For that last remark, he got a bag of flour thrown on him courtesy of Giovanni, which broke open. The sight amuses Courtney and Tabitha, who break into laughter.

-"It's not funny!" Maxie screams, as he wipes his face down.

-After Maxie gets half the flour off himself, Faba comes in, holding a bowl of cake batter in his hands.

-Faba decides that Team Rainbow Rocket will test Ash's mettle and the triplets’ bonds as a family. Maxie counters that villains are people, too.

-Maxie is irritated by Faba's antics, so he attempts to get Major Blanc to shoot him with paint. But Major Blanc shoots the ground

-Faba throws the bowl. Causing it to sail through the air and splatter cake batter all over Maxie.

-"Oops!" Faba remarks. "Looks like you've got a bit of something on you, Maxie!"

-Maxie vows that he'll get Tabitha and Courtney to hold him and one of his Pokemon next time Faba comes to him. After this, he walks away in indignation.

-Meanwhile, Ash and the triplets watch a TV, hoping to find clues as to Crispin's whereabouts.

-"Attention vermin!"

-Suddenly, Giovanni comes onto the TV and announces they've got Crispin. He then tells them about Team Rainbow Rocket. The central premise of this sinister team is that its members are parallel instances of villainous leaders who were successful with their schemes, like a Cyrus who rewrote reality or a Lysandre who obliterated Kalos. And he tells them to go to the Rainbow Resort to stop them in an event called "The Rainbow Rocket Trials".

-Ash is horrified as Giovanni signs off the TV announcement.

-Cilan says they have to go to the Rainbow Resort.

-Chili gets a paintball gun, and Cress brings a baseball bat. Ash and Cilan bring the Z-crystals.

-They go to the Rainbow Resort.

-But Faba shows up, telling them not to enter.

-Cress roasts him, and he leaves

-The triplets and Ash enter the castle, and the Rainbow Rocket Trials begin.

-Ash fights some Team RR grunts

-am i thinking of a scenario where Team Rainbow Rocket essentially splits Ash and the Triplets up by re-randomizing the floor they’re on, effectively acting like the Mysterious Wind in the PMD games? Yes I am

-Cress and Chili end up in one room and get grabbed by Courtney and Tabitha. Maxie turns around and sees them. Cress introduces himself, and introduces Chili, his brother

-Maxie tells them how he got here, and Cress butts in to give his thoughts. Courtney says they also got pulled away, but it wasn't on purpose if they recall.

-Cress asks where's Maxie's Magma Grunts, and Maxie looks at him, flashing a malicious grin. "they’re gone."

-Meanwhile with their brother Cilan, he and Ash get stuck with Archie.

-I think Cilan would drive Archie up the wall with his incessant gabbling… until he tells them he's going to flood Alola

-Cilan is horrified, and he tells Archie that pirates should be "cool guys, sailing around, enjoying freedom", not murderous brutes.

-Then Cilan and Ash get into a battle with Archie.

-If you're wondering about Cilan's brothers, Cress tells Chili to handle Courtney and Tabitha, while Cress himself battles Maxie.

-His Pokemon make good work of his Crobat, Mightyena, and Camehump. But then Cress has a horrible realization that Maxie has a Groudon.

-Regardless, Cress brings out his vespiquen for the Groudon, and in a case of type moves being skewed, uses his Z-ring for a powerful Savage Spin-Out attack.

-Back with Cilan and Ash, they also come to the same realize that Archie has a Kyorge. Meaning that both are inescapably screwed

-Or so it seemed, until Cilan decides to take command of that situation and save Ash from Kyorge immediately by using a Z-Move (in this case, Bloom Doom) on it.

-Meanwhile with the other triplets…

-"NOOOOO!" Maxie shrieks to the heavens

-He then says that they will dry up Alola anyway

-Cress gets angry, and tells Maxie that he threw his grunts under the bus.

-Maxie nods, happy that he, Tabitha and Courtney are the last remaining Magma members. He also mentions that all of Team Aqua but Archie drowned

-Cress decides to teach Maxie a lesson

-Chili shoots him with his paintball gun several times (and I have the humorous image of that scene in tetocu being recreated with Maxie)

-Then Cress pins him down and proceeds to torment him

- For example, Cress spreads glue all over Maxie and throws leaves onto him.

-He then has Panpour use Mudsport on Maxie

-Then Chili hits Maxie in the chest with Cress's baseball bat.

-Cilan and Ash then run out of Archie's room, and Cress and Chili join up with them

-Just then, Archie shows up, and he flirts with Maxie. Maxie is less covered in glue, mud and leaves, but his clothes are a bit stained and are in need of thorough washing

-Just then Guzma shows up.

-And as Guzma refuses to be part of Team RR’s regime, Maxie tells Team Rainbow Rocket Grunts to take him to the place where everyone else is. Which they do, and the triplets and Ash nope the hell out of there

-The four are on their way to Cyrus, but are caught by Major Blanc. Major Blanc's mind-controlled Pokemon attack them. Thanks to Ash, Chili, Cress and Cilan peforming Gigavolt Havoc, Inferno Overdrive, Hydro Vortex and Bloom Doom respectively, they free Crispin's Pokemon. They turn Major Blanc back into Crispin, and they escape.

-The Cyrus scene would mostly play the same as the original USUM.

-When Cyrus tries to take a look at Rotom, Ash and the brothers get into a fight with him

-The battle is one-sided; all of their Pokemon are no match for Cyrus's. Even Palkia is dealt with thanks to Crispin doing Never Ending Nightmare

-After the fight, Ash falls down a hole in the ground

-Then the brothers run into Lysandre of Team Flare. He tells them that he had just unleashed the Ultimate Weapon to end all foolish life, leaving only Team Flare alive, but he got zapped to this world instead. He attempts to make the brothers turn the Ultimate Weapon on, but they refuse and they get into another one sided battle with him.

-Chili lands the finishing blow with his Beartic's Subzero Slammer

-Then Crispin falls down a hole

-"There is no room for Team Plasma, but with all these other rooms, I think we're good for a while." Cress tells them

-The triplets then ahead towards the room where everyone else is kept

-Or, they would have if they weren't stopped.

-"Well now, what do we have here...? I come out wondering what the commotion is... only to find the door to the center of the castle ajar, and intruders running wild! It seems those team leaders from other worlds are not nearly as useful as I had hoped."

-It's Ghetsis of Team Plasma. He gets into a fight with the three at once

-The battle is long and brutal

-At the end of the battle, Ghetsis tries to get Cress turned into a human kebab, however Cilan pulls out his Uno Reverse Card, Colress roasts him and Ghetsis gets erased from existence

-Cilan and Chili fall down a hole, and Cress follows

-Then Cress confronts Giovanni

-Giovanni sends out his Pokemon, forcing Cress to send out all his

-As Giovanni runs roughshod over Cress's Pokémon, he offers him a choice: either die, or join them. Archie and Maxie both decry what Giovanni has done, and even Cyrus soon turns against Giovanni.

-Cilan and Chili try to help, but the cage prevents them

-This incites Giovanni to declare that brotherly love doesn't exist.

-Cress shouts "No, that's wrong" like a Danganronpa protagonist.

-Cress told Giovanni he loved being a triplet. He punched away Nidoking as he said he loved the way Cilan lets bugs crawl out of his food instead of crushing them like Chili. His Dugtrio jumped at him again as he said he loved how Chili says the dorkiest things when trying to sound cool. Giovanni sent his other Pokemon at Cress, but that didn’t stop him, as he said he loved being a waiter most of all.

-Just then, Faba, who had been lurking in the shadows for most of the episode, gleefully revealed himself as the Aether Foundation's first ever traitor. He tells the triplets that he works with whoever he damn well pleases.

-Team RR give him the stink eye, and Courtney tells Faba that at least she currently has no plans to betray Maxie, given that she's his right hand

-Faba then snaps like a waistband, screaming "Idiots! I specialize in psychic types, which will destroy you! You'll all be ruined! Forgotten! Spending eternity rotting in the Distortion World!"

-Then Giovanni sends out the big, bad Mewtwo.

-Deciding this will be a piece of cake, Cress decides to step it up. However, over the course of this battle, Mewtwo sweeps most of Cress's team.

-Cilan is uncertain of his brother's chances to defeat Giovanni as his Pokémon’s numbers keep decreasing, but Chili gives his brother words of encouragement to face Giovanni alone.

-Realizing how much the triplets have changed since Unova, Giovanni drops his innocent facade and uses Mewtwo to turn Cress into stone.

-That's right: Giovanni's Mewtwo can turn people into stone here.

-As Cress stands motionless, Panpour rushes over to check on his Trainer, but he is unresponsive. Panpour tries one Bubble Beam after another, but his attempts are all in vain. Panpour begins to tear up and cry aloud, fearing his Trainer is now gone. Cress's other Pokémon are also drawn to tears by this, and the cumulative effect brings Cress back to life and frees everyone.

-Cress gets a confidence boost as a result, distracts Giovanni by throwing a bowl of cake batter in his face, and decides that Giovanni could benefit from a little 'fun'.

-Sophocles' Togedemaru and Charjabug use Zing Zap and Discharge, to fuse with Ash's Pikachu's Electroweb. primaina uses sparkling aria, and Tsareena fires Magical Leaf. Turtonator uses Flamethrower, and Snowy adds a Powder Snow to the mix. Crispin has his Passimian use All-Out Pummeling. Gladion's Lycanroc uses Devastating Drake, Chili uses Never Ending Nightmare, Cilan uses Shattered Psyche and Cress uses Acid Downpour.

-By the end of the battle, Mewtwo is unconscious. Faba is in shock, as Cress should have been weakened after he was turned to stone. Cress says wrong, and he's now stronger than ever.

-As he is surrounded by a blue aura, Cress takes Ghetsis's cane and slams it into the ground. Causing blue energy to cover the ground, teleport the parallel leaders (plus Courtney and Tabitha) somewhere and turn the Rainbow Resort is returned to normal (it's basically Lusamine's mansion from the games, except it was retooled to be the Aether Foundation's backup research place instead.)

-Cilan and Chili compliment their brother, and Crispin tells him he did great

-Cress thinks it's nothing, but is glad that the backup Aether place is back to normal.

-"Okay, brothers. We should never speak of the Rainbow Resort and Team Rainbow Rocket again" Crispin tells them

-Cilan nods.

-After the brothers call it a day, we see giovanni already plotting his next move.

-"Those kids have beaten me for the last time, for the last time! They say fight fire with fire. Well, I will create an inferno! An inferno that will bring me dictation! Because we're not quite done with you, Ash Ketchum." He vows.

-While baking chocolate chip cookies later on, Cress pets Panpour in Professor Kukui's house, and tells about how he learned a new Z-Move during the "never-to-be-repeated or spoken-of-again adventure". While Chili and Crispin want Cress to do Acid Downpour again, Cilan doubts that his brother would be angry enough to unleash that move.

-Cue the credits!

Fun Facts

As you saw here, this wouldn't be shot-for-shot line-for-line USUM's post game, just animated. While it's true that whole lines of dialogue and even camera angles from the 2017 game would be remade in this, this would be a two parter, because, let's be honest, there are too many changes to the arc not to do so.

It allowed me to show Team RR capture Ash's friends.

And the ending was changed to make it less ambiguous than USUM

In Japan, the two parter would probably be called "The Treacherous Rainbow Rocket Trials!"

Crispin knows from experience that he doesn't want to be Maxie, and being Maxie means to be manipulative. Crispin wants nothing to do with that, and that's why he helped Cress in the final battle

Team Aqua and Magma are way closer to their ORAS versions, to the point that they’ve probably been getting worse (in the good way) than in canon.

Maxie already exhibited a lack of morals in canon ORAS, so being successful in causing Hoenn to dry up would only ramp those up, despite not treating Tabitha NEARLY as horribly as Faba treats Crispin.

I just wanted to make sure that this version of Cress is neither a gary stu nor a background character.

the first part of this two parter is basically Maxie teaming with Major Messy lmfao

As for Ghetsis being Melvinborg'd? I wanted to give Ghetsis the cruelest end I could imagine, go way beyond the “and he's arrested lol”. Also I wanted Colress to have a moment to stand up and tell Ghetsis to his face that he sucks.

Don't worry, this isn't the last you'll see of Ghetsis, or Team RR for that matter ;)