SUITE SUNSET

Chapter 1

by The-bronze-dragon

The sun was setting off in the distance behind a low hill, casting a brilliant orange-pink glow upon a tall, lean man standing on an upper balcony leaning on the railings, the wind gently waving his long purple hair around his bare shoulders. He had intended to go to bed early tonight, so he'd lost his usual uniform and black t-shirt and had already changed into his pajama pants. He'd only lain in bed for a few minutes when he realized sleep would not come…so he'd decided to go and watch the sun set instead.

And here he was, soaking in the last few rays of sunlight before the fall of night, thinking about the past couple days' events…

"JAMES!"

"What?"

"Snap out of it, would ya?! I'm tryin' to explain something to you!"

"Oh, sorry…"

Jessie just looked at James with a skeptical look on her face. I wonder why he's been so out of it lately? Probably just a lack of sleep, hell we've All had lack of sleep these past few days, since we've been so far behind the twerps we'd had to spend most of our nights only getting a few mere hours of sleep in order to catch up, but honestly do you see ME daydreaming? I think not…

"Look it's hard enough for me to explain it to you once, let alone to have to repeat myself…Now, as I was saying…We've finally caught up with the twerps and that insidious little Pikachu and saw that they have entered the town up ahead. According to Meowth they have gotten a hotel room for the weekend apparently taking a short vacation. I say we should wait a couple of hours so that way they're sure to be settled in then we go and see if we can find out which room they're in, sneak in and steal that damn Pikachu!"

"But it's not even close ta bein' dawrk outside yet Jessie. Wouldn't it be betta if we wait 'til they're good an' asleep fwirst?" said Meowth.

"That would be good except for the fact that we're not sure when they'll be planning on going to sleep. We just need to wait 'til a little before dusk then go down there and poke around a bit. They don't necessarily have to be asleep when we find them, just asleep when we go in. Got it? We have to firstly find them, and then set our plan in motion."

Two hours and a nice nap later…

"Shhhh!" spat Jessie as James and Meowth followed her up the rusty ladder that led up to the roof of the building adjacent to the hotel that Ash and Co. was staying in.

They had found the hotel fairly easily, the rough part though would be to locate their exact position within its depths…So after they found a way to reach the top of the next building they quickly headed up. After getting their bearings straight Jessie and James whipped out a couple pairs of binoculars and started to search for the twerps' room.

A few minutes later James gave a sharp intake of breath and pointed to a corner-most window towards the back side of the building that faced the land-mark lake of the town they were in. Jessie and Meowth turned to see what he had indicated…it was indeed the twerps' room because the skinny red-headed girl was standing at the window looking out at the lake. But what had shocked James had now sunk into Jessie's and Mewoth's heads…Pikachu was not in his normal resting place on his owner's head, instead he was being held by the girl with nobody else around the window.

"Where's the retard in the hat? And how come she's holding Pikachu?" asked James in a hushed whisper.

"No idea…But it does us no good to figure that anomaly out, because we can't get in unnoticed and steal the damn rodent if they're not asleep!" replied Jessie.

"So what do we do now? Just sit up here and wait 'em out?" retorted Meowth.

"Nah, we need to find a new building…" James thought out loud. And from registering the confused looks from his team mates he added "Uh…'cuz from this one we can only see the very corner of their window. So unless any of them are going to be sleeping against the glass we can't see what they're up to."

"Ahhh…gotcha. Let's see…there's another hotel building over there that we can use." Jessie pointed out. And indeed there was, it was caddy-cornered-next-to the hotel the twerps were staying in.

Team Rocket made their way to the hotel Jessie had pointed out. Once they made their way around the perimeter they found out that there was no way up to the roof. Defeated Jessie and James slumped against the side of the hotel staring at the window they had seen Pikachu in. Meowth on the other hand was surprisingly pissed off…he huffed and puffed and…paced in circles. Meanwhile the sun had started to set and dusk was setting upon them fast. Finally he burst out, "I GOT IT!" Jessie jumped a little and then glared at Meowth, whereas James let out a little yelp and held a shocked expression while staring at his friend. "Well?!" Jessie and James cried in unison when the cat didn't explain himself.

"Since we can't go up we go in." he said simply. Now it was James' turn to look confused with Jessie. "We go inside dis hotel and find out what floor we can see the twerps' room from."

"And what do you propose we do then? It won't do us any good, cuz once we find it we won't know how long they will be awake, and we can't just sit there all night!" Jessie shot back.

"Uh…didn't tink of dat one…" said Meowth. While both Jessie and Meowth were contemplating on that thought James had the perfect idea, but he didn't want to bring it up in fear of what the other's reactions would be… However Jessie saw him and knew that he had something going on in his little head.

"James, what are you thinking about? You got a solution to this dilemma?"

"Huh?" said James, startled. "Um there is a way…" he said staring at his feet, then he looked up and saw a look on Jessie's face that clearly said that he should elaborate on that thought. "Umm…we could do as Meowth said and go up to find out where we can see them best from. But this hotel doesn't let people any further up than the lobby unless they're staying here-"

"Well then all we have ta do is get a room!" interrupted Meowth. But Jessie saw that this was not what was exactly on James' mind at the moment.

"We could… See the twerps are on the 7th floor, which would make it the 7th floor of this hotel…" James was finally starting to come out with it now, thought Jessie, but she noticed that something still plagued him… "You see…I've stayed here before, 6th floor actually, right underneath the room we'd need to be in to properly observe the twerps…I heard things…and well…"

"Well what, James?! Would you just explain so we can get up there?! It's getting darker by the minute and we'll look suspicious if we end up going in to get a room late at night!" said Jessie.

"Actually, it wouldn't look suspicious at all." And from seeing the (yet again) look of confusion, he said, "Because the corner room on the 7th floor is one of the Honeymoon Suites…"

A dull silence followed his last statement. "A-are you sure?" came Jessie's reply. James just nodded in response, not finding anything other than his shoelaces interesting to look at at the moment.

"Well its settled den!" shouted Meowth. Jessie and James just looked up at him as if they could not believe what he was about to say next. "We'll act like youse two are da newlyweds and we'll get that room that Jimmy mentioned! How hard could it be?"

"Meowth, this particular hotel doesn't allow pokemon to be released from their balls, nor pets…" mumbled James. Meowth just sweat-dropped.

"Well then it's up ta youse two! And I'll keep lookout around the twerps' hotel incase any of them leave, and I'll tail 'em!" said Meowth.

"Well alright if it's for the mission…" Jessie.

"And we absolutely have to…" James.

"All right we'll do it!" Jessie and James.