Dangit! I knew I forgot to do something last night! Well, anyways here's a late Halloween One-shot to start the Holiday One-shot Collection. I hope you enjoy!
It was a cold Halloween night when I saw the pokemon. I was outside of the Oak Research Lab, where Tracey, Gary, and Ash had somehow convinced Professor Oak to spend the night at the Ketchum's so they could throw us a Halloween party. I don't even wanna know what might've been going on down there. I shudder from some of the possibilities Brock and Tracey came up with to tease Ash and Gary. But I guess I should start from the very beginning…
Like I said earlier, Ash, Gary, and Tracey somehow convinced the Professor to let them throw a party at his research lab back on October 25th. They then invited some friends, namely Misty, Leaf, Daisy, Brock, May, Dawn, Iris, Cilan, Clemont, Serena, Bonnie, and me. They also said that we could invite up to two people, so Brock invited Pike Queen Lucy, May invited Drew, and Dawn invited Paul. Adding together a party, sixteen teenagers, two preteens, several pokemon, and sugary candy never has, and probably never will end well for anyone. Actually, now that I think about it, Daisy, Tracey, Brock, and Lucy might not be teenagers anymore… But on October 31st at 6:30 PM, all eighteen of us somehow ended up in the Oak research lab regardless of our age.
The party started out just fine, with all of us enjoying ourselves by eating candy, socializing, and dancing. I met Bonnie, and besides being my own age, she's also a really awesome person. She was dressed up in a Dedenne costume, consisting of a brown dress with a white front and a black tail, a pair of light brown ankle boots, and a headband with Dedenne ears on it, along with two circular pieces that looked like a Dedenne's cheeks. Of course, everyone else was dressed as a pokemon too. I was dressed as Jirachi, wearing all white. Well, except for my hoodie. It was mostly white, with a yellow hood with blue tassels, and two pieces of yellow fabric hanging off the back. I also had two teal triangles painted right under my eyes. Serena and Dawn had worked together to make all of us costumes, along with several of the pokemon, like Pikachu and Axew.
Now it's pretty late and the little kids had finished trick-or-treating, but the party's still going strong. Well, actually, it seems like a everyone's separated into couples, but nobody's left the property. I stayed inside until Gary and Leaf (who I don't know well, but think are together) started making out in the middle of the room, getting catcalls from some of the others. Mainly Daisy and Brock, I think. I definitely saw Ash and May looking on, confused. Maybe even slightly disturbed. I couldn't tell from that far away, along with the fact that I was slipping out the door to the Oak Corral, where NOBODY would be making out. I think.
I sat out there under the stars for a while, thinking about nothing in particular. I bet there were grass stains on my butt afterwards, but that didn't matter. I was enjoying myself all alone out there, while all the hormonal teenagers could be doing whatever they wanted inside. Except Drew. He couldn't do anything more than kiss May. Maybe I should've gone inside, just to make sure Drew wasn't doing anything with my sister, but I never did because someone came outside and sat next to me right then.
"The stars are really pretty tonight, huh?" Bonnie said, stargazing with me.
"Yup. Especially with the full moon out," I responded without really thinking about it. Conversation flowed easily between me and Bonnie. I don't know why, but it did.
"Are you a werewolf?" she asked suddenly. I stared at her, confused.
"No. Why?" Bonnie then looked at me, laughter twinkling in her eyes.
"Because then I'd have to run away from you," she responded. "It's the full moon!"
"Well, I might not be a werewolf, but I'm pretty sure that Ash and May are," I joked.
"Really? Why d'ya say that?" Bonnie seemed genuinely curious.
"Because they eat so much! We should probably run while we can, before they infect the others at the party!" I was struggling to keep from laughing at this point.
"Come on then!" Bonnie stood, tugging me up with her, and started running away. We were both laughing by then, and Bonnie was still holding my wrist, dragging me along. We kept going until we reached the shade of a small forest, where we collapsed to the ground, still laughing our guts out.
I'd sat up and was wiping my eyes when I saw it. I stopped laughing, and put my hand over Bonnie's mouth. She tried to protest, but I shushed her. I slowly stood up before helping her up as well. Together, we snuck over to where I'd seen the pokemon, even though Bonnie didn't know why we had to be quiet. She just trusted me. When we reached it, we hid behind a tree before peering around it and catching sight of the pokemon. It looked like a salmon Jack-O-Lantern with only two circular eyes, and a bat-like thing coming out of the top with amber eyes and a mouth with two vampire-style fangs. It was giving off light from the two eye-hole things in the pumpkin part.
"What is that?" I murmured. I'd never seen anything like it in my entire life, but I had no doubt it was a pokemon.
"That's a Pumpkaboo!" Bonnie told me in a whisper-shout. The Pumpkaboo turned our way, and we ducked behind the tree again. The light passed over the tree, going in a circle around the clearing. After it was facing the other direction, Bonnie and I stuck our heads out from behind the tree.
"Are Pumpkaboo from Kalos?" I whispered to her.
"Mmhm. I dunno why there's one here though. I heard they were only native to Kalos," Bonnie replied.
"They are," I trailed off as we heard someone coming from our right. It couldn't have been anyone at the party because they Oak Research Lab was on our left. We quickly made sure that whoever it was wouldn't see us as they came crashing into the clearing.
"Where were you, Pumpkaboo?!" the intruder screeched. Bonnie and I both gasped as we recognized her long magenta hair, along with her white miniskirt and crop top. It was Jessie from Team Rocket.
"Jessie? I think you should be quieter." Another person had followed Jessie into the clearing, and he was being followed by two other pokemon. One was a Meowth, and the other looked like a floating blue squid with the top of its head white and pink with a white tentacle on either side of its body. James, the newcomer, had a worried look on his face.
"We don't want da twerps to find us here. Dat's da whole reason we're doin' dis tonight!" Meowth said quietly. Jessie humphed and walked in the opposite direction as us. Meowth, James, Pumpkaboo, and the other pokemon followed her. After they were gone, Bonnie and I stood up from the bushes we'd hidden behind.
"It's Team Rocket! That's why there was a Pumpkaboo here," I groaned. "I can't believe I didn't think of that possibility. Who's the other pokemon?"
"That's an Inkay. What are we gonna do? Should we go back and get the older kids?" Bonnie seemed pretty worried about Team Rocket here. I reached into my pocket to grab my pokeballs. I'd just started my journey this past year, so I didn't have very many pokemon yet.
"Do you have any pokemon with you?" I asked her after I'd pulled out all three of my pokeballs.
"I have Dedenne, but he's back at the party," Bonnie responded with a frown. "I just turned old enough to have my own journey, but I only got Dedenne from Clemont."
"Well, you can borrow some of mine," I told her. I called out my three pokemon, which were Ralts, Mightyena, and Treecko.
"Wow! Your pokemon are so cute!" Bonnie exclaimed when she saw them.
"So which one do you wanna use? They're all pretty great," I said proudly. She paused for a moment, thinking.
"Can your Ralts use teleport?" she inquired. I nodded.
"Why?"
"Just wait here a sec." With that, Bonnie had Ralts teleport her somewhere. A few minutes later, she came back with Dedenne and six white sheets.
"What are those for?" Bonnie didn't answer my question, instead throwing a sheet over each of us. That's when I noticed the two holes in each sheet.
"Let's give Team Rocket a scare they won't forget!" Bonnie exclaimed after we all had a sheet over our heads. We looked like stereotypical ghosts.
"I get it now! Ralts can use psychic to make us float like ghosts!" Ralts nodded at this, and we started quietly running after Team Rocket. We caught up to them when they had Ash's Bulbasaur and other grass-type pokemon stuck in a net.
"Now, Ralts!" I whispered. Ralts levitated us using its psychic, and Mightyena started howling eerily. Team Rocket jumped, looking around fearfully. When they saw us surrounded in the blue glow from psychic, they nearly screamed. Well, it was actually more like a strangled scream.
"Run away and leave the pokemon if you want to survive," I said creepily. It was all I could do to not burst out laughing at their expressions. Even Inkay and Pumpkaboo were scared witless, I think. Bonnie was having the same problem as me.
"If you don't we'll be forced to take you back to the underworld with us," Bonnie added, barely stifling her laughs. Team Rocket apparently didn't notice this because they knelt down and begged for mercy. I glanced at Bonnie, who glanced back, a mischievous look in her eye. I'm pretty sure we thought the same thing.
"If you release the pokemon that don't belong to you, bring us candy, and never come back again, we'll let you leave," Bonnie and I stated in unison. I was grinning under the sheet, and I think Bonnie was too. Meowth quickly cut the net with his claws, and Team Rocket ran off, telling us to wait right there for them to get back with the candy. They ran away from the actual research lab, so they probably weren't getting it from the party. As soon as they were gone, Ralts set us all down while Bonnie and I started laughing hysterically at the prank we were pulling on Team Rocket. Bulbasaur and the other pokemon looked on curiously.
"Do you wanna help us?" I asked them. They nodded, so I turned to Bonnie. "Think you can get some more sheets for them?"
"Of course. I just need to borrow Ralts again!" Ralts teleported the two of them who knows where, and they came back a few minutes later with several more sheets. We explained the prank to the pokemon, and convinced them to help us, although it took a while. The pokemon had just gotten the sheets on when we heard someone crashing through the undergrowth. Ralts quickly used psychic, and we had just barely gotten back into the air when Team Rocket came bursting out of the bushes into the clearing. They dropped a huge sack of candy, and were wearing costumes. I personally thought they looked hilarious and slightly pathetic, but I was skeptical on how they'd gotten the candy.
"How did you obtain the candy?" Bonnie voiced my concerns while Team Rocket was once more kneeling on the ground, groveling.
"O great and mighty ghosts, we obtained this candy in the honorable way of this holiday we hold most holy!" Jessie said eloquently. I had to admit, I kinda liked the way she called us great and mighty.
"She means we went trick-or-treating," James summarized. I nearly laughed out loud at the thought of these two parading around town in their costumes. Jessie looked like Napoleon Bonaparte, while James was a medieval princess. Meowth was the knight in shining armor. I could tell that Bonnie and the pokemon had the same thought as me with a glance. I pointed at the sack of candy and raised my arm. Ralts, catching on to my idea, levitated the candy sack as well.
"Now begone!" Bonnie and I screamed at them. They started running, and we chased them off Professor Oak's property, all the way to the outskirts of Pallet Town. We stopped chasing them after they passed the town boundaries, but they kept running. I bet they didn't stop running until they reached Viridian City. The pokemon, Bonnie, and me all walked back to the Oak Research Lab, where I thanked all the pokemon and Bonnie hugged them all. Afterwards, I returned my pokemon before Bonnie and I walked back into the actual lab with the sheets and candy. We almost turned right back around when we found out that more people were making out, namely everyone except me and Bonnie. Heck, even Misty managed to get Ash to make out with her. I honestly wasn't expecting that. The only reason we didn't walk back out was because I noticed May, Drew, Serena, and Clemont were all missing, causing horrible images and ideas to come into my head about what they might be doing. I dragged Bonnie after me up the stairs, praying that they weren't doing what I thought they were doing. We ran into the four missing teens in the second floor hallway.
"Where were you and what were you doing!?" May demanded angrily.
"Where were you and what were you doing?" I retorted.
"I asked first!" May yelled.
"Why does that matter? I bet you were-" I was cut off by Drew, who I think realized what I was going to accuse them of, judging by his red cheeks.
"We were all looking for you and Bonnie," he said calmly. "Nothing else."
"Well, me and Max were outside, enjoying the stars," Bonnie replied cheerfully. We'd left the sheets and candy in a dark corner, where we hoped nobody would find them. "Neither of us wanted to be inside while Gary and Leaf were having their make-out session."
"Well, thank goodness you're both safe," Clemont sighed. Serena hummed in agreement, and Bonnie looked at her. Or rather, she looked at Serena's hand in Clemont's. Bonnie's innocent smile grew wider.
"Did you and Clemont finally get together Serena?" she asked eagerly.
"Wh-What?" Serena stuttered, her face growing red along with Clemont's. But she didn't deny it. Bonnie and I snickered at this.
"Are you two sure you were just stargazing?" Drew asked with a smirk. I felt my face heat up at that comment, but Bonnie just smiled mischievously.
"Maybe we were," she said before dragging me away down the stairs, leaving four stunned teenagers behind us. We laughed while we grabbed the hidden candy and sheets, going out back again to hide from them. We climbed a tree and sat there for the rest of the night, not answering when everyone came and looked for us around sunrise. Of course, it might've had something to do with the fact that we were fast asleep under the ghost-sheets in the trees. Overall, I think it was the best Halloween I've ever had.
Again, I'm sorry about the late posting. I'll try to do better when I write the Christmas one.
Max: What about Thanksgiving? Aren't you writing one for that?
Espeon: Nah. That's Umbreon's job if she decides to do so. I'm writing a Thanksgiving special for the boarding school fic. Well, if we ever actually get the Halloween one up. That'll definitely be late. Maybe even a week late because we've been inspired about other things instead of that.
Bonnie: Go write it right now! Your fans deserve it!
Ash: But please no more of Misty hurting me?
Espeon: Sorry Ash, but I can't change Misty's personality. If I do, she'd be way to OOC.
Misty: So you're saying I'm too violent?! Is that what you're saying!?
Espeon: Cus word. No, I'm not saying that...
Leaf: Cus word? That's an interesting thing to say.
Espeon: Well, I'm not gonna use words stronger than shoot, fudge, and my personal favorite: crap. So I say cus word instead.
Leaf: Okay...
Misty: *Pulls out her mallet* So what did you mean when you said I'd be too OOC?
Espeon: Um... Oh, look at the time! I'd better go ahead and sign off. Please review to tell me what to change or request stuff for Christmas! I'll also accept ideas for other story titles, since we came up with this title last minute. Espeon out! Peace! *Runs away as fast as she possibly can.*
Misty: Get back here you little-!