Kissing the Team Good-bye
By DK
Completed February 1998
Edited somewhat May 2001
"James, your whining makes me sick," Jessie yelled in
fury at her partner-with-the-bottomless-stomach. "Am I the
only one that's even SLIGHTLY interested in global
domination?"
"What are ya talkin' about?" Meowth argued, waving his
paw angrily at Jessie and revealing his razor-sharp claws.
He pointed one claw straight at himself. "I'M da one dat
keeps dis team in ordah!"
Meowth's boastful comment was rewarded with a
backhand to the side of the head. Meowth tumbled a few
yards off as Jessie returned in a blind rage, "You stupid,
scrawny little cat! How dare you challenge my authority over
this team?!?"
For the first time James joined the conversation after
pausing his never-ending quest for food. "She's got a point
there, Meowth," he said thoughtfully as Meowth struggled
back up from the ground. "It doesn't matter whether she's a
female or not; she's always bossing us around."
SMACK! James went flying in the opposite direction of
Meowth. Meowth straightened up.
"Me-yowth, dat's right!"
Jessie's extreme temper flared. Meowth dodged a
deadly mallet and continued his protesting.
"You never give us ANY freedom! When it was princess
day, how was it different from any uddah day?"
POW! Meowth was flattened upon the ground in
milliseconds. Jessie was on fire, panting hard, flame escaping
her nostrils. She spoke in a tone quiet, yet dangerous.
"Listen, you two. I don't care whether you're part of this
team or not, I'M perfectly ready to rule the world!"
Meowth and James shot glances at each other. Sure,
they'd all seen Jessie mad and been exposed to her mallet, but
NEVER experienced something like this. Jessie, of all
people? She was both equally evil and cruel, but certainly not
as cold-hearted as to leave her partners and go solo! "But
Jessie..." both began.
"Shut up!" Jessie shouted. "I've had enough of both of
you! This is it!" She snatched both of James's Pokèballs from
his belt.
"Hey!" he started in protest.
"You hardly deserve them," Jessie snorted, adding it to
her Arbok and Wobbuffet. Then she added coldly, "Nor can you
train them of use them effectively in battle against the trio
of brats. You've always been a worthless, simple-minded
idiot."
Jessie's words hit James harder than her mallet blows.
"Jessie...certainly you can't mean you're..."
"Of course I'm leaving! There's nothing else for me to
do! The Boss hates us, the brats always beat us, and
whenever we try to do evil we always end up 'blasting off
again'!
"And as for you, Meowth, you shouldn't even have the
honor of being a Pokèmon! You can't battle well, nor can you
think up terrific plans! All you do is gripe and complain and
interrupt our motto!" Meowth cringed at her words. For the
first time in his life he showed compassion for his partner.
"Listen, youse two. No matter how many times we're gonna
fail, I'm still stickin' witcha 'cause I owe ya one for savin'
my life. So how 'bout we all work as a TEAM and make up a
plan to capture Pikachu?"
Jessie didn't even hesitate for an instant. "DON'T try
to fool me, Meowth! If you're trying to persuade me to stay,
it's not gonna work!" And without even so much as a glance
back, Jessie turned her back and left. "Not even a good-bye
kiss?" James called after her. But she continued to walk.
JAMES
"Jessie's gone," I said sadly to Meowth as we watched
her form slowly disappear into the distance. "Do you think
she'll take the balloon?"
"We're about ta find out," Meowth said, a hint of gloom
in his voice. I bowed my head and buried my face in my hands.
"And to think how we've stuck together all these years," I
reminisced as Meowth, too, began to remember. Suddenly I
had a flashback: it was when we'd been with the brats on
some luxury ship. I'd foolishly bought a weak Magikarp for a
pretty large sum of money, and it came with a "gold" Pokèball
that wasn't even real gold, but merely paint. Jessie had
pointed it out and was about to pound me once again when
something happened to the ship. We'd been knocked
unconscious by something, and when we woke up the ship was
lurching like crazy and everything was upside-down. We'd
peeked out the window and saw fish swimming past us and
knew we were in deep trouble..."
While trying to escape, we'd coincidentally met up
with: the brats! Ahhh! Fortunately, we decided to work
together since we'd all die if we didn't. With the aid of the
brats, we made it to the top (bottom) of the ship but Jessie
realized we had no water Pokèmon to take us to the surface.
I began to laugh.
"James, what are you laughing about?!? We're about to
go down with the ship!" She was ready to continue, but I
stopped her with an upraised hand.
"You remember how you and Meowth ridiculed me about my
Magikarp," I said, grinning. "Well, Magikarp happens to be
a water Pokèmon." Then she'd been super-relieved.
But the highlight of the flashback was this: we had been
crossing a partly submerged section of the ship, so we
couldn't get across. Brat #1's Pokèmon stretched its vines
across, and we were about to step across but I had chickened
out. Jessie yelled at me and said we'd do this together, and
I'd been an immature coward and whimpered, "Don't leave
me!" and she'd replied, "I won't!" It touched my heart to
know deep inside of Jessie, underneath all of that selfishness
and cruelty and evil there was a kind, loving, compassionate
girl-I mean, uh, woman. But after this episode...I guess not.
I also remembered the time when Jessie and Meowth had
forced me to return home to my parents and marry Miss Prim
and Proper. Oooh, whenever I remember that girl it gives me
the chills! But, Jessie and Meowth only wanted to do that to
inherit all of parents' luxury stuff, house, and money. But is
seemed as if they forgot about all that when I disappeared
and Jessie and Meowth had assumed I was "hanging up my
uniform" for good. But when I had returned...I'd never seen
Jessie that way before...but...was it possible...
"Look! Dere she goes!" Meowth exclaimed suddenly,
jumping up and pointing to the all-too-familiar TR Meowth
balloon. A tear formed in the corner of my eye as I knew who
the single passenger was. It hit me that we may never
reunite again...
JESSIE
"Hahahaha! Now that I'm rid of those two fools, I can
become the most gorgeous, most beautiful, most talented
woman in the world! Hahahaha! Like I always say, the road to
stardom is long, but I'm already near the top! I'll be a
superstar!" I laughed long and loudly before beginning to plan
where I would head next. In the back of my mind I was
secretly longing to go back to James and Meowth...if only
James knew...
...but he didn't. That was that! James was a stupid
idiot who only thought of food, himself, fine girls, and rare
Pokèmon, anyway. I quickly got rid of the thought of going
back and decided to go to the Pokèmon League roadway to try
and snatch some badges. Then, eventually I would win, beat
the Elite Four, and then...but, still nagging, was that memory
of James...we'd always done everything together...suddenly
the motto came to mind. My full, red lips instantly formed
into an evil, yet attractive, grin. Then the words just popped
out automatically--"Prepare for trouble!" But I heard no
"Make it double" echo my words. I looked down. It was all
over now. No more motto. No more futile attempts to
capture Pikachu. I trembled a little as I thought, No more
Team Rocket.
I sighed, but knowing I couldn't go back now gave me a
little more confidence to continue down the path.
Away from James.
Away from Meowth.
Away from Team Rocket.
By DK
Completed February 1998
Edited somewhat May 2001
"James, your whining makes me sick," Jessie yelled in
fury at her partner-with-the-bottomless-stomach. "Am I the
only one that's even SLIGHTLY interested in global
domination?"
"What are ya talkin' about?" Meowth argued, waving his
paw angrily at Jessie and revealing his razor-sharp claws.
He pointed one claw straight at himself. "I'M da one dat
keeps dis team in ordah!"
Meowth's boastful comment was rewarded with a
backhand to the side of the head. Meowth tumbled a few
yards off as Jessie returned in a blind rage, "You stupid,
scrawny little cat! How dare you challenge my authority over
this team?!?"
For the first time James joined the conversation after
pausing his never-ending quest for food. "She's got a point
there, Meowth," he said thoughtfully as Meowth struggled
back up from the ground. "It doesn't matter whether she's a
female or not; she's always bossing us around."
SMACK! James went flying in the opposite direction of
Meowth. Meowth straightened up.
"Me-yowth, dat's right!"
Jessie's extreme temper flared. Meowth dodged a
deadly mallet and continued his protesting.
"You never give us ANY freedom! When it was princess
day, how was it different from any uddah day?"
POW! Meowth was flattened upon the ground in
milliseconds. Jessie was on fire, panting hard, flame escaping
her nostrils. She spoke in a tone quiet, yet dangerous.
"Listen, you two. I don't care whether you're part of this
team or not, I'M perfectly ready to rule the world!"
Meowth and James shot glances at each other. Sure,
they'd all seen Jessie mad and been exposed to her mallet, but
NEVER experienced something like this. Jessie, of all
people? She was both equally evil and cruel, but certainly not
as cold-hearted as to leave her partners and go solo! "But
Jessie..." both began.
"Shut up!" Jessie shouted. "I've had enough of both of
you! This is it!" She snatched both of James's Pokèballs from
his belt.
"Hey!" he started in protest.
"You hardly deserve them," Jessie snorted, adding it to
her Arbok and Wobbuffet. Then she added coldly, "Nor can you
train them of use them effectively in battle against the trio
of brats. You've always been a worthless, simple-minded
idiot."
Jessie's words hit James harder than her mallet blows.
"Jessie...certainly you can't mean you're..."
"Of course I'm leaving! There's nothing else for me to
do! The Boss hates us, the brats always beat us, and
whenever we try to do evil we always end up 'blasting off
again'!
"And as for you, Meowth, you shouldn't even have the
honor of being a Pokèmon! You can't battle well, nor can you
think up terrific plans! All you do is gripe and complain and
interrupt our motto!" Meowth cringed at her words. For the
first time in his life he showed compassion for his partner.
"Listen, youse two. No matter how many times we're gonna
fail, I'm still stickin' witcha 'cause I owe ya one for savin'
my life. So how 'bout we all work as a TEAM and make up a
plan to capture Pikachu?"
Jessie didn't even hesitate for an instant. "DON'T try
to fool me, Meowth! If you're trying to persuade me to stay,
it's not gonna work!" And without even so much as a glance
back, Jessie turned her back and left. "Not even a good-bye
kiss?" James called after her. But she continued to walk.
JAMES
"Jessie's gone," I said sadly to Meowth as we watched
her form slowly disappear into the distance. "Do you think
she'll take the balloon?"
"We're about ta find out," Meowth said, a hint of gloom
in his voice. I bowed my head and buried my face in my hands.
"And to think how we've stuck together all these years," I
reminisced as Meowth, too, began to remember. Suddenly I
had a flashback: it was when we'd been with the brats on
some luxury ship. I'd foolishly bought a weak Magikarp for a
pretty large sum of money, and it came with a "gold" Pokèball
that wasn't even real gold, but merely paint. Jessie had
pointed it out and was about to pound me once again when
something happened to the ship. We'd been knocked
unconscious by something, and when we woke up the ship was
lurching like crazy and everything was upside-down. We'd
peeked out the window and saw fish swimming past us and
knew we were in deep trouble..."
While trying to escape, we'd coincidentally met up
with: the brats! Ahhh! Fortunately, we decided to work
together since we'd all die if we didn't. With the aid of the
brats, we made it to the top (bottom) of the ship but Jessie
realized we had no water Pokèmon to take us to the surface.
I began to laugh.
"James, what are you laughing about?!? We're about to
go down with the ship!" She was ready to continue, but I
stopped her with an upraised hand.
"You remember how you and Meowth ridiculed me about my
Magikarp," I said, grinning. "Well, Magikarp happens to be
a water Pokèmon." Then she'd been super-relieved.
But the highlight of the flashback was this: we had been
crossing a partly submerged section of the ship, so we
couldn't get across. Brat #1's Pokèmon stretched its vines
across, and we were about to step across but I had chickened
out. Jessie yelled at me and said we'd do this together, and
I'd been an immature coward and whimpered, "Don't leave
me!" and she'd replied, "I won't!" It touched my heart to
know deep inside of Jessie, underneath all of that selfishness
and cruelty and evil there was a kind, loving, compassionate
girl-I mean, uh, woman. But after this episode...I guess not.
I also remembered the time when Jessie and Meowth had
forced me to return home to my parents and marry Miss Prim
and Proper. Oooh, whenever I remember that girl it gives me
the chills! But, Jessie and Meowth only wanted to do that to
inherit all of parents' luxury stuff, house, and money. But is
seemed as if they forgot about all that when I disappeared
and Jessie and Meowth had assumed I was "hanging up my
uniform" for good. But when I had returned...I'd never seen
Jessie that way before...but...was it possible...
"Look! Dere she goes!" Meowth exclaimed suddenly,
jumping up and pointing to the all-too-familiar TR Meowth
balloon. A tear formed in the corner of my eye as I knew who
the single passenger was. It hit me that we may never
reunite again...
JESSIE
"Hahahaha! Now that I'm rid of those two fools, I can
become the most gorgeous, most beautiful, most talented
woman in the world! Hahahaha! Like I always say, the road to
stardom is long, but I'm already near the top! I'll be a
superstar!" I laughed long and loudly before beginning to plan
where I would head next. In the back of my mind I was
secretly longing to go back to James and Meowth...if only
James knew...
...but he didn't. That was that! James was a stupid
idiot who only thought of food, himself, fine girls, and rare
Pokèmon, anyway. I quickly got rid of the thought of going
back and decided to go to the Pokèmon League roadway to try
and snatch some badges. Then, eventually I would win, beat
the Elite Four, and then...but, still nagging, was that memory
of James...we'd always done everything together...suddenly
the motto came to mind. My full, red lips instantly formed
into an evil, yet attractive, grin. Then the words just popped
out automatically--"Prepare for trouble!" But I heard no
"Make it double" echo my words. I looked down. It was all
over now. No more motto. No more futile attempts to
capture Pikachu. I trembled a little as I thought, No more
Team Rocket.
I sighed, but knowing I couldn't go back now gave me a
little more confidence to continue down the path.
Away from James.
Away from Meowth.
Away from Team Rocket.