The Story of Team Rocket

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The worst thing about our route, Pallet to Cerulean, was the requirement of costumes. Jay got the least embarassing costume of a bug catcher. His sword was disguised as a net, his plain-clothes were obscured by the overalls, and the funny hat masked his matted hair.

Kat once again tugged down on her skirt. "Ugh... these clothes were meant for someone with an IQ less than a rock." I laughed, only to be tripped by the folds of Denim crumpled at my feet.

Mine was the least believeable costume. "Jay... I'm 6'2"! NO ONE is going to mistake me for a youngster!"

"You'd be surprised! Some of the people around here aren't very briiiiiiiiggggggghhhhhhhttttttt!!" RaiZap, whom was also in costume had tripped Jay and was making him tumble down the hill. She then scurried up and perched on my shoulder. For being as big as she was, she hardly weighed anything. I scratched her chin and some of the yellow paint flaked off.

"Drat!" Before we left Viridian we dumped a bucket of yellow paint on her 'making' her a Pikachu. She just as quickly jumped from my shoulder and somersaulted down the hill. "After you..."

"Not quite..." She replied, as she gave me a strong push. I was able to grab onto her waist and take her with me. We both laughed as we tumbled down the hill. We held on tight to each other all the way down the hill. It was a rough trip down, especially over that speed bump that we knew as Jay.

By the time we stopped rolling we were a good 50 feet away from the hill, Kat had landed on top and my head was 'neatly' positioned on a big rock. As she slowly arose I stopped to admire her, Her hair was Tousled in 'just' the right way, from the tumble a couple of wild flowers had stuck in her hair highlighting the fiery locks. I then stopped and stared at her eyes, she smirked and did the same. At this point her elbows 'gave' out and she fell back onto my chest. The intense moment was shattered by Jay nearby. "Uhh... Guys..."

Both our heads turned to Jay and I KNEW Kat's were also filled with Scorn and Hate from being interupted. Jay pointed up into the sky, we saw a Bee-Dril diving right towards us. Kat broke and rolled left as I rolled right. The Bee-Dril missed us by only a fraction of a second. Kat jumped to her feet and reached for a PokéBall. I waved at her to stop as I saw what was about to happen.

As the Bee-Dril started to ascend a battle yell was heard... "RAAAAIIIIIIIICHUUUUUU!" The Bee-dril was hit from above by RaiZap whom had scurried up a tree and swift kicked it to the ground. From there Zap proceeded with unnecessary roughness, mercilessly pummeling the face of the attacker. "Zap, you can stop now ... Zap, you can ..." I reached down and picked up Zap. She continued her punching motion for a couple of seconds before she realized that the match was over.

"Rai? Rai? CHUUU!" Meaning "Huh? What? Okay!" She hopped out of my arms and continued to lead the pack. I glanced over at Kat whom was adjusting her glove, and was gazing back at me. With a singular glance we agreed that we'd better keep going towards Pewter City.

Walking all the way to Pewter from Pallet in one day is quite a walk. Not only that, but outside of Viridian Forest its a rather Un-remarkable trip; Just flat land and boring inhabitants.

We continued onwards when we came to a large family picnicing near the rock quarry. As we walked on by a small child grabbed my leg. "Stay and eat with us Mista!" Not one for idle chit-chat with people that barely have a mastery of the English Language, I tried in vain to shake the child off. But apparently, the other children could sense motion and soon I was tackled to the ground.

"Ugh..." I managed from the bottom of the Dog-pile. "Kat, what do you think?"
"The worst they could do is poison us!"
Thinking that was a better fate than remaining on the ground tackled by these brats, "Jay, Your opinion?" I wasn't even going to bother to Ask Zap. If I knew her, she had already made herself a ketchup-sandwich. "Jay?"

In the distance I heard the conversation, "Hello there, would you care to ditch the little ones and go to a diner with me?" Looking through a hole in the pile, I could see Jay hitting on a girl wearing a pink dress.

"Why sure. Where do you suggest?" A very non-feminine voice replied. The "lady" stood up and took of the bonnet.

"ACK!!!!" Jay jumped three feet straight in the air and jumped into the nearest person's arms. "You're not a girl!?!?!"

"Isn't it obvious?" The man replied. At this point, Kat dropped Jay to the ground and took a step back.

"Well NNNNNOOOOOOO!!!!! If you aren't a girl then why are you wearing a dress!?!?!?!"
"Oh! That's to confuse all the non-japanese viewers!"
"Oh, Well, I guess that's OK then... I was beginning to think you were weird or something..."

"That settles it! We're staying for lunch!" A great yell erupted from the children whom were still lying on me. They began to remove themselves and Kat came over to help me up. As I suspected, Zap was on at least her third sandwich.

"I'm Brock, and this is my father Flint!" The man in the dress said.
"That's great kid," I stated uninterestedly, "You know any good Pokémon trainers around here?"
"Why I'm a Pokémon Trainer!" Brock exclaimed. "Go Onix!" A giant snake quickly appeared from a Pokéball that Brock threw.

"BROCK! Must you keep telling everyone you're a pokémon trainer? It's a horrible waste of time is what it is! Pokémon are boring, dorky little creatures. It's been all that's occupied your time since your mother passed away."

"DDDAAADD! Mother never passed away! She's still in Celadon at the Game Corner! Just 'cause she hasn't called is no reason to assume she's dead!"
Knowing what would shut the father up I tossed him an empty Pokéball and said, "You're just jealous, Here go be a Pokémon Trainer!"
"Oh COOL!" Flint exclaimed as he ran off over the horizon. Brock stood there slack-jawed and dumb-founded.
"Don't worry kid! He won't last a week out there. But have I got a job for you!" Thus the rock Quarry was converted into a GYM and Brock was instated as the GYM Leader. It took the better part of 3 hours...

"Now remember the provisions of the contract! You have to dress 'NORMAL' and after an alloted amount of time, your father may take over your position and you are released from the contract."

As we left Pewter Jay and RaiZap escorted us all the way to Mt. Moon. But, unbeknownst to us a group of malcontents lay just outside of Mt. Moon PokéCentre...

"I know! A Kidnapping!" Wolf whispered to Turbulence.
"Nah, It's been done... Besides! How would we even get close to them?"
"Wellll.... The ironic thing here is we just leave a kidnapping note! Then we collect the ransom without actually doing anything!"
"Wolf! That's BRILLIANT! Now... Who should we 'kidnap'. We know all the members, and I think Silph would pay the most for that tall girl."
"Yeah! And what are the odds they're on a mission together!!"

A letter slid under the door of the PokéCentre. I quickly read it and called out to Kat.
"Hey Kat."
"Yes Strykie!"
"Have you been Kidnapped?"
"No. Have you?"
"Nope. Just checking!"
This PokéCentre had a small diner where a Cable Club should be. Jay, Zap, and Kat had already picked out a booth and had just started to pick up the menus when I sat down. I guess I should tell you why we were still hungry after that picnic in Pewter. It turned out that what wasn't devoured by the heathen Children; Zap chowed down before we were able to make ourselves a meal.

As we ordered our respective meals, the conversation eventually turned to psychic powers and how they're used.
"Oh come ON!"
"No really! Humans possess Psychic Powers too! It's the only way to control a Psychic Pokémon!"
"Puh-LEAZE! I've had Al forever and I'm not Psychic!"
"You Probably ARE! And since its an Alakazam you're probably VERY Psychic!"
"HA!"
We both turned to Kat similtaneously, and said "Kat what'd you think?"
She was in a rather awkward moment seeing that an Entire piece of lettuce hung from her lower-lip as she munched on her salad. Finishing her bite she replied, "Personally, I believe that its possible! I mean, we're just beginning to understand the powers of the mind!"
"Okay! Lemme show ya'll." Jay rolled up his sleeves and moved (By his hand) the salt shaker to the middle of the table. He then started to wave his hands in the air. What happened next defies all explanation. Instead of a grandious moving of the shaker across the room, Jay was only able to make the shaker vibrate, while barely visible it was still magnificent.

After a little more conversation I went to the counter to pay the bill. "That'll be 11520." After my shock wore off I asked for the receipt. After close examination my voice echoed through the hall and all the way back to Pewter

As we left the diner, Kat called out to me and I said, "I'll catch up." When I was sure no one was around, I lifted my hand in the direction of the salt shaker and concentrated. Not terribly surprised when nothing happened I was interrupted by the waitress re-intering the room. I quickly swished my hand so it brushed my hair, and turned and walked away. But little to my knowledge the waitress would later clean up a broken salt shaker that had been flung against the wall.

"Okay, Zap and I will go back west and we'll meet back up at Cerulean. Good luck Stryker; Kat." As he shook our hands Jay and Zap headed back to the JigglyPuff Fields as I activated Falcon's Pokéball.

"Katherine, After you."
"Not Quite Strykie..." She pushed me backwards tumbling onto the Farfetch'd 's back. I reached down and lifted her onto Falcon. Despite what you might think, the trip to Cerulean was an uneventful one. Once we landed we went directly to the pre-determined spot.
"The Cerulean City Public Swimming Pool," I looked over at Kat. "Now WHAT could you do underwater."
"I can think of plenty, but none that are legal in 'public'." We both smirked as we entered the Arena. Up on the High Dive were four young girls, They took a leap from the board and landed with tiny splashes; three of them anyways... The smallest one jack-knifed into the water and made a splash to rival a Lapras's.

"Katherine? Silph?" A voice from behind called us, as we turned around a brown felt fedora adorned the head of a shadowy figure. "Its about time you got here!" The man wore a leather jacket over the tell-tale TR uniform; a seashell necklace adorned his neck, it was unbelievably tacky which meant it had to have some sentimental value or hidden meaning. "Those are the Cerulean City Sensational Sisters! And Misty... They've agreed to be the GYM leaders here." I looked back at the pool, three of the ladies were in perfect syncronysity as they performed; the other was at least 2/3rds of a turn behind.

I Looked back at the kid, "And you would be...."
He laughed, "Gio didn't tell you about your contacts did he? Well I'm ArcticDude. Pleased to meet ya'." He extended his hand.
As we shook hands, Kat asked about something I hadn't noticed yet. Arctic's hair was an unnatural white.
Once again Arctic laughed. "Well I'll have to tell ya' about that sometime!" We walked out of the GYM just as the swimming routine was finishing up. The bickering of all of the girls became loud and echoed throughout the area. We headed towards the C-City Pokémon Centre, the sun was setting in the distant horizon, turning the clouds and sky a dark crimson hue. I stopped to look at my watch. It was only 7:30.
"There's another good 7 hours before crash time, anyone have any suggestions?" Arctic and Kat checked THEIR respective time pieces and looked at me as if I were crazy. "What? What'd i say? 2 AM is PERFECTLY normal! I still can't believe ...." As I trailed off the sunset on our trip and I wondered how the others were doing...

The Story of Team Rocket Part VIIA - Jay's Lament (told from Jay's Point of View)

I flipped out the Pokédex. Not many people know that a Pokédex has many other features besides a directory; Like it's Cell-phone... It's tape recorder... and it's built in mapping device. I started dictating:

"Hour 1. I just left the Pokécenter and am starting out for where the JigglyPuff's roam. RaiZap seems to be having immense fun trying to out-run me. I told her to behave. Pokémon should FIGHT not PLAY! Oh wait...." A jigglypuff hopped out from around the corner of a tree.
"Jiggly?"
"RaiZap! Weaken it NOW!"
RaiZap sauntered over to where the jigglypuff was and sat down. Seeing no other course of action I picked up a small pebble and hurled it at Zap. Scoring for once in my life, a perfect hit, the pebble bounced off of Zap's head and infuriated her. As she rubbed her head, she turned towards me. Then she gave about the most evil smile I think I've EVER seen. She turned back to the Puff and gave it a Swift Kick.
"JIiiiiiiiigggggggggg AAAAAA-LLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!" The poor Puff screamed as she exited the upper atmosphere and headed out towards deep space. Zap then walked over to where I was and berated me. I can't understand Raichu so I can only GUESS at the words she chose to describe me. What I got sounded something like this:

"That'll learn you you pompous cheeseball! You'll spend the rest of eternity in a grocery store! With an attitude like that your Pokémon training skill equal that of a potato farmer! I'll do whatever I can to STOP YOU from capturing a JigglyPuff!"

"Hour 3. I haven't seen a jigglypuff since the one Zap kicked into orbit. I'm actually tracking one right now. It's footprints are rather distinctive..." As I neared a rock, a Puff jumped from behind it and perched itself on the rock.

"Jiggly Jiggly Puff?"
Taking advantage of this situation I reached for the nearest ball on my belt. "RAAAAIIIICCCCHUUUUU!!!!" Came a war-cry from behind me. A bolt of thunder struck down from above, not only searing the ground but frightning the Puffball and making it run away. Now you'd be surprised by how fast Jigglypuffs can run. Since they weigh practically nothing, their tiny, little legs can move fast enough to give them near-blinding speed!
I turned to the raichu perched on the now-vacant rock. "I hate you. I REEEEEAAALLLY Hate you..."

"Hour 6. Zap is sound asleep in a Pokéball. While I've had no sightings, I have high hopes because I'm moving to a new area!" I trudged along until I found a small clearing. In the middle was a JigglyPuff; and with a sudden stroke of good luck, It was asleep. I reached for a Pokéball. In as quiet a voice as I can speak in I said, "Xerox Go!" My silence was unecessary because once Xerox was released he made a sinister hissing sound.

Xerox was unlike other dittos. He had two sharp teeth, sinister beady eyes, and a temper to match. And instead of saying 'Ditto Ditto'. He could only manage a low growl and a gurgling sound.
"Xerox attack!" I whispered. The Puff was alerted by Xerox's gurgle and sprang to its feet and began singing. The music was sweet and soft, I began to feel woozy. Then I heard Xerox's growl, unaffected by the song, Xerox had jumped onto the JigglyPuff's face and was suffocating it. This went on for about two minutes when the Puff gave up. I walked over to the battle scene, and congratulated Xerox. I then lobbed a Pokéball onto the Puff. To my surprise the ball rolled right off of it.

"Huh?" I tried two more times. Getting curious I walked over to the Puff and picked up an arm. The arm dropped right back onto the ground. "XEROX! You killed it!" Xerox managed a glurp and jumped back into HIS pokéball. I flipped open the Pokédex. I pushed the button labeled 'Chansey Call'.

Chansey Call is a service for Pokémon of the wild. They are treated and then released back into their natural Habitat. Almost as soon as I pressed the button two chanseys appeared out of nowhere and put the puff on a gurney and wheeled it outta there. The entire episode took about 2 minutes.

"Hour 10. Not a Puff in sight. I'd swear they're all hiding... It's some sort of VAST right-wing conspiracy. My eyes are failing me, I need sleep. I don't think I can stay awake for much longer ...if... ..i.. don't......ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzz.........."

Now everybody knows that JigglyPuffs are nocturnal. While he slept, Jay was visited by a couple dozen of JigglyPuffs. Of course, He'll never know, but it still makes it unbelievably annoying.

"Ahem! Hour 18. After staying awake I've just forgotten to make these logs for about 8 hours straight. While there aren't any Puffs around, I think I just heard a Jiggly's cry..."
In a patch of grass right in front of where Jay was standing, a Jigglypuff meanandered out and stood erect by a rock. Without thinking Jay reached for an empty Pokéball, as He threw it the ball bounced right off him. "Grrrr....." The puff growled. A quick double-slap leveled Jay as the Puff then stood on his chest.
"I'm not a JigglyPuff. I'm your contact from HQ."
"What?!?"
"*AHEM* Pokeman007 ... SuperSpy! At your service. BUT you can call me Bob!"
"OK, Great, Bob. Would you mind getting off of me now?" As 007 helped me up RaiZap popped out from her Pokéball.
"~Chu!~" She yawned. As she looked around she saw I had finally caught a Puff; or so she thought. "RAI! RAI!" she shouted in a rage. As she was chasing 007 towards Mt. Moon, a small jigglypuff walked right up to me and tugged on my Pants leg. Without thinking I moved my foot and the Puff retrieved the microphone I was standing on. Of course, only after the puff retreated into the foilage did I realize what a big mistake I had made. I sighed and started towards Mt. Moon. Zap was at the entrance but no telling where 007, er... Bob was.

As we entered the cave I was instantly bombarded by blood-thirsty bats. As I ran back outside, Right from the entrance I heard RaiZap's War-cry again. "RAAAAAAIIIIICHU!" When I turned back all the air-borne vermin had become ground-bound vermin. Zap's quick Thundershock had save a lot of fighting.

After we stepped through the 'battle-zone' we were greeted by none other than a Geodude. Following just behind me, I heard RaiZap crack her knuckles. After that sound she had jumped from the ground, onto my shoulder and had just used it as a spring board.

After prying Zap off of the Geodude's unconscious mass we continued our descent. We went through the ENTIRE cave without seeing a clefairy. How predictable was that! Not only have I returned without a Puff, I was going to go without a Fairy too. As Zap and I climbed the ladder to leave the cave, my eyes beheld a magnificent sight. There was some sort of convention going on. Not only that! But the only creatures at this convention were JigglyPuffs and Clefairies!

There was a huge stage set up on the left side of the area, the rest of the area was occupied by tiny little tables and tiny little chairs. Zap, forever sensing opportunity, forgot her vow to make sure I never caught a Puff, and skipped over to a table and immediatly ordered the entire menu. Up on stage was a jigglypuff, it was standing right next to a microphone. Behind and to the left of it, a clefairy stood. While the only thing remarkable about the puff was a bandana around its head, the Fairy had a scar down the side of its face. The puff walked straight up to the microphone and tapped it.

"Puff, Puff, Puff! J - igg alee!" Just as I was preparing to fall asleep from the oncoming song, the clefairy hit a guitar chord and the Puff yelled: "PPPPPUUUUUUUUUUFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!" This wasn't an ordinary Jigglypuff, this was a rock n' roll JigglyPuff.

As all the denizens of the convention ran screaming for the exit, I cried out. "NOOOOOOOO! Don't leave! Wait! Give me ....just... a.... minute....." The empty Pokéballs were caught on a belt loop and wouldn't come off in time. As the last of the cute little creatures fled the cave, I dropped my head onto a rock. Looking back, it was a rather hard rock; but it didn't matter at the time.

"Puff?" I looked up, the rock n' roll duo were still here. "Puff?" it asked again. At this time 007 errr... Bob showed up to translate. "He's asking if you're an agent like the Raichu says you are..."

I looked at Zap sitting at a table with food piled on it. She gave me a thumbs-up and went back to chowing down. I turned back to the jigglypuff and clefairy. Leaping to my feet, I grabbed puff's hand and shook it vigorously. "Oh Yes! I'm an agent! I saw your act and it was uh... unique! Yeah Unique! Unique to say anything!"

As we left Mt. Moon, I was enjoying my huge streak of of good luck. But of course, RaiZap took ALL the credit. "What do you mean YOU got Jigglypuff and Clefairy? I was the one that caught them!"

Clefairy tugged on my pants-leg and informed me, "CLE-fairy, CLE cle..." or "We don't particularly like the term 'captured'."

"I don't care! We've got to make it to Cerulean before sunset. Otherwise you might get eaten by a Rhydon! You don't want that do you?" Jigglypuff gave me a skeptical look.

As we walked away from the setting sun, Cerulean City rose from the horizon; Destiny awaited us there...