Tuesday, June 17, 2008

10 - A crush?

Jessie was watching the brats through her binoculars, while James and Meowth were leaning against a tree, chatting airily.

“Jessie should stop with that obsession of following those twerps 24 hours a day!” – said Meowth.

“Yeah… we almost have no time to…” – started James, stopping when he noticed that he was thinking out aloud.

“What do you almost have no time to do, huh, James?” – asked Meowth, grinning maliciously.

With that comment, Jessie started paying more attention to their conversation than to the brats.

“Err… to eat! … oh my god, that was terrible!... We don’t have time to rest! Yeah, that is it!” – answers James, all muddle-headed.

“Riiiiiiiiiight… You know what?!?” – said Meowth.

“What?!?” – asked James, interested.

“I think Jessie has a crush on that Ash brat!” – said Meowth, matter-of-factly.

That made Jessie go blind with anger. She could see no brats anymore. All she could see was her frying pan and Meowth’s head waiting for it.

“What the hell did you just say, Meowth?!?” – asked Jessie, getting menacingly closer and closer to Meowth with the frying pan in her hands.

“Err… uh… err… nothing, Jess! Nothing!” – answered Meowth, flinching in fear.

Jessie gathered all her strength and hit Meowth with her frying pan, making Meowth flee high up in the sky.

James poked Jessie lightly on the arm and she turned around, still looking very angry.

“Jess, what Meowth said is not true, right? You don’t have a crush on that brat, do you? I am your only love Nidoking, right?” – asked James, shyly.

James got hit very hard by Jessie’s frying pan for that question. Then she went back to her observation spot behind the bushes, but was not able to find them anymore.

“Damn it! Do you have any idea what you have done?!? Now I have no idea where those twerps are!” – yelled Jessie, even angrier.

She then grabs James and Meowth, pulling them in the gym direction.

“You guys are getting in this gym with me right now!!!!” – demanded Jessie, leaving no chance for complaints.

9 - A trap!

After some more walking, Ash finally got a glance of the gym.

“Didn’t I tell you? Here is the gym!” – said Ash, running excitedly to the gym door.

“Do we have to say it again?!?” – asked Brock and Misty, going to meet Ash.

“No, I already know that you find all this very odd… I know… I know… you don’t need to keep repeating that! But to me, everything seems fine!” – said Ash, knocking on the gym’s door.

With the first knock, a hole opened under their feet and they fell down a slide screaming.

8 - Just a few more minutes!

In the gym bedroom, a small fight was going on.

“Will you let me get dressed or not, Butch? It has been more than 30 minutes! They must be here already and we should be ready!!” – yelled Cassidy.

“Oh, they can wait…” – said Butch, trying to keep Cass of putting on her clothes.

“Stop that!” – said Cassidy, punching Butch and getting herself free from his grip. – “And put on your disguise already! We are late!!!”

Butch gave up and also put on his disguise.

7 - Not listening!

After walking for about 15 minutes through the jungle, Ash still confidently walks towards the gym.

“Ash, don’t you think we have already walked a lot?!? No gym is in the middle of nowhere like this!!” – asked Misty, tired of walking through the jungle.

“She is right, Ash! There is something very odd about all this!” – reaffirmed Brock.

“There is nothing weird! Look! Another sign! It says that we should go this way and that we are almost there!” – said Ash, pointing to another one of the tenths of signs that were showing the way.

“I still find all this very odd…” – repeated Brock, still following Ash.

6 - A change of plans

Jessie, James and Meowth went to the path that the brats had turned and stopped when they saw the first sign.

“Hmm… what gym is this?!?” – asked James.

“Never heard of it…” – answered Jessie.

“What about this badge and this league?!?” – asked James once again.

“I have no idea… but…. a new league…. Hehehe… new things always attract lots of people…” – deduced Jessie.

“… and lots of people means lots of pokémons!” – James followed her line of thought.

“For us to capture and handle to the boss!” – continued Jessie.

“It is our great chance!!!!” – both of them said together, giving each other a commemorative hug.

Meowth was watching that pathetic scene, then scratched both to get their attention.

“Is it that hard to use your brain a little?!? Did you ever hear of a pokémons league being held in the middle of nowhere?!?” – screamed Meowth.

Jessie and James exchanged a glance and then shrugged.

“You can’t see the truth if it is banging hard on your heads! This league, this gym and this badge don’t exist! It was all made up! It must be a joke, so there is no reason for us to keep following them…” – explained Meowth, starting to trail the way back.

“Hey, hey, hey, Meowth! Where do you think you are going? We have to capture that Pikachu!” – said Jessie, holding Meowth before he could get away.

“Well, I just thought we could simply forget about all this and take the day off” – explained Meowth.

“You thought wrong!! We have to get that Pikachu for the boss! Let’s take advantage of the fact that those little brats are already falling for the gym joke to capture it!” – said Jessie, really excited.

“Err… I kind of agree with Meowth. Let’s take a day off!” – pleaded James.

Jessie pulls her fan with the big red ‘R’ in the middle out of nowhere and hit both of them in the head.

“Stop being lazy!!! Let’s keep walking!!!” – screamed Jessie, now following the same path the brats had taken.

Soon enough, the other two followed her, looking very annoyed.

5 - In the gym ...

In the nearby gym, two people were watching the movement through some cameras that they had installed in the forest.

“Hahahaha! It seems like we are going to trick our first fool!” – celebrated a girl, while being hugged and kissed by a very needy person.

“Hey, Butch! Can you give me a break? We have a job to do!!” – complained Cassidy, while pushing Butch away.

“Oh, come on, Cass… Those brats will take at least ten minutes to get here!” – whined Butch, still trying to make Cassidy “relax” before work.

“Meh… ok! Ok! Let’s go to the bedroom, then we can change our clothes already…” – consented Cassidy, being immediately pulled by the arm to the bedroom.

4 - Behind the bushes

Meowth was observing the twerps from behind the bushes and was really confused when they changed direction.

“Didn’t I tell you that your plan would fail?!? The brats took a path to the heart of the jungle! They didn’t even get close to the hole of yours! Let’s …” – yelled Meowth as he turned to look at his team members, stopping mid sentence with what he saw. James was getting off the top of Jessie and she was getting her clothes straight. Meowth stared at them in disbelief.

“We fell!” – explained James.

“We were hearing the soil to see if there was any Dugtrio under it!” – explained Jessie at the same time as James.

Both James and Meowth turn to look at Jessie with a look that said ‘that was the worst excuse ever’.

“Let’s go after the twerps!” – said Jess, blushing and trying to change the subject.

She and James got up and went to the direction of the path that the brats were following. Meowth followed them a little behind, not believing what he has to put up with in this team.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

3 - Brats in the jungle!

The brats… errr, I mean, Ash, Misty and Brock were coming from Pallet where they have spent their vacation time. As always, everything was going peaceful and quiet in that group of friends.

“Ash, when will you return my bike?!?” - screamed Misty.

“When I finish my journey and become a Pokémon Master!” - answered Ash, smugly.

“Damn… then I will be dead before I even see it!” - sulked Misty.

“Misty, I will be a Pokémon Master sooner than you think!” - complained Ash, not believing what Misty just said.

“Yeah, sure… whatever!” - replied Misty, sarcastically.

As they walked, they were suddenly surprised by a sign in the middle of nowhere in the jungle. The sign read: “This way to the new official Dark Gym, where you can get the awesome Doom badge and compete on the Deadly Pokémon League”.

As Ash read along, a feeling of excitement took over his body.

“Come, Pikachu! I need to get into that league!!!” – said Ash, running down the forest path where the sign pointed. Misty, Brock and Pikachu followed him, though they were kind of suspicious of that sign.

2 - A brand new plan

After lunch, the three of them were waiting for the brat behind some bushes.

“I can’t believe that you guys made that stupid hole again!” – complained Meowth in disbelief of how often his partners use that plan.

“You just don’t understand. It takes a genius to get how complex our plan is and how hard it is to build a great hole!” – answered James, striking a pose.

“Listen to James, Meowth. The digging of a perfect hole that can’t be detected is a hard art to master!” – added Jessie, following James pose.

“This one is sure to catch those stupid brats!!” – Jessie and James finished together with a proud pose.

“I think the only stupid people here are you two, who more often than not like to fall on your own traps!” – screamed Meowth in disbelief, scratching both of their faces.

“OW!!” – complained both, breaking up the pose.

“Now you two be quiet! Here come the brats!” – said Meowth, pushing Jessie and James behind the bushes.

1 - A new day starts for Team Rocket!

At around 10 am, Jessie woke up suddenly. Slightly drowsy, she looked around searching for her partner. With growing relief, she noticed that James and Meowth were still fast asleep.

“Great! The bathroom is all mine…” – thought Jessie, getting up and taking care to not wake up the two of them.

She went to her drawer to get her towel, uniform and the huge amount of cosmetics that she used. When Jessie turned to the bathroom door, all she could see was a shape with blue hair running to the bathroom and locking itself in. Anger veins started popping on Jessie’s forehead.

“Get the hell out of there, James!!!” – screamed Jessie, almost breaking the door with her delicate banging.

“But I got here first!” – answered James happily, already taking off his pajamas.

Jessie took a long breath, trying to calm down.

“James, I need to wash my hair… If you let me in, I’ll buy you a box full of donuts!” – she said in the sweetest voice she could pull off at the moment.

There was a silent moment and then James opened the bathroom door slowly, getting ready to receive some kind of beating. Jessie had her mallet in her hands, ready to hit him. Then she suddenly stopped, noticing that her partner was only wearing briefs. After staring shocked for a few seconds, she entered the bathroom and closed the door behind her.

“Erm… I guess you can take a shower while I wash my hair!” – she said, starting to take off her own pajamas.

“Of cour…” – James started answering, but was abruptly interrupted by Meowth opening the door as quickly as he could. Jessie was hit right in the face by the door, while undressing.

“Are you guys throwing a party here in the bathroom?!?” – yelled Meowth, looking suspiciously at his half-naked partners.

“There is no party. We were just going to take a shower!” – answered James, trying to sound and look innocent.

Jessie’s answer was hitting Meowth in the head with her mallet.

“OW!!” – complained Meowth, rubbing his head with his paw – “I think I need to explain you guys a few things…”

“I think I need to teach you to look where you are walking…” – grumbled Jessie, staring at herself in the mirror to check if there was any damage to her ‘perfection’.

Meowth, pretending to not have heard anything, kept going.

“Taking a shower is something very intimate, that should be done alone. And…” - Meowth was taken by surprise by Jessie taking the little clothing left on her and going inside the shower box.

“Pervert!!!” – shouted Meowth.

James was already getting ready to follow Jessie when Meowth grabbed and dragged him outside the bathroom, shutting the door behind them.

Changing the subject

Ok, I know it has been thousands of years since my last post and that I had already changed the subject. So I thought, why not keep it at another subject anyway? Later I may come back to my adventures on Vana'diel. But for now, I wanna publish something else.

While I was in the States on the last few months, I did the mistake of mentioning writing pokémon ... uhh... fanfics (Yeah, let's keep it at that) to Burgs. After mentioning the ... hmm... contents of those fanfics, he bugged me into translating it to English so he could read. Now that I am back and bored at work, I started doing so and thought about sharing them with you all.

I hope you enjoy it a little bit. I'll keep posting as I translate more! :)
Enjoy and leave comments, please! <3~