"A Pokemon Gaining Adventure"
by Mistystuffer
Chapter 11


That evening, Ash, Misty, and Delia sat at the dinner table.

"So, would anyone like to guess what I'm going to do with the leftover food from my restaurant?" Delia asked.

"Well whatever you do, It'd better be soon because it'll spoil soon," Ash noted.

"Tomorrow night, I'm going to cook a grand feast for us! You can invite your friends if you want."

"Yeah! I'll bet Tracey and Joy would love to come," Misty said.

Delia giggled. "And it won't end until there's nothing left!"


Meanwhile, Joy is walking to the Pokemon lab to visit Tracey, humming along the way. She walked to the door and knocked,
which is answered by Tracey.

"Oh hi, Joy, what a pleasant surprise. How are you doing?"

"Oh you have no idea...." she answered miserably, walking in holding her grumbling stomach. "I'm soo hungry... I had to
eat yet another gross salad...."

"We could always call for pizza."

"Oh that sounds like a great idea! Please?"

"Sure thing. What kind do you want?"

"One with extra cheese."

"Ok."

"And pepperoni."

"Sure."

"And sausage."

"Yeah, alright..." Tracey said, getting a slight bit annoyed.

"And green peppers. And--"

"Ok I'm going to call now."

"Hey don't forget to order a 2 liter bottle of soda also!" she added.


Soon afterward, the extra large pizza arrived. Tracey had a few slices, while Joy continued eating all that was left.
Suddenly the video phone rang.

*Ring ring ring, ring ring ring, Phone Call, Phone Call*

"Hello? This is the lab of Professor Oak."

"Hi, Tracey!"

"Oh, hey Ash."

"What're you up to?"

Tracey laughed, "Joy stopped by so we thought we'd order a pizza."

"Yeah, it's great!" she said, shoving a slice in front of the screen.

Misty was standing by Ash and noticed this, then sweatdropped, "Uhh... are those green peppers?..."

"Yep!" Joy answered, taking a large bite.

"Oh disgusting...," Misty said, clutching her mouth, "I think I'm gonna be sick..."

"Come on Misty, we don't need you throwing up, you just ate 10 plates of food!" Ash turned back to the monitor, "Heh. In
case you didn't know, Misty HATES peppers."

"I'll keep that in mind... So why did you call?" Tracey inquired.

"Oh yeah. Misty and I were gonna invite you to dinner at my mom's restaurant tomorrow night. Earlier today Team Rocket
attacked and blew up most of the place, so we're gonna finish off the leftover food before it goes bad."

"Ooh! Sounds great!" Joy squealed, "We'll be there!"

"Um, yeah... Joy? I really suggest lying to your aunt about where you're going tomorrow night," Ash told her.

"Oh yeah... I understand. Gotcha."

"Is there something I'm missing here?" Tracey asked.

"I'll fill you in later," Joy told him.

"Just meet us there at 6:00pm tomorrow night. Hope to see ya! Bye."

"Bye," the two on the other end answered.

Ash hung up the phone. Misty was sitting on the couch looking a bit ill.

"Oh Misty, are you still grossed out about that? I know what'll make you feel better. How bout we have a CARROT cake?"

"That's NOT FUNNY!!!!"



Joy just arrived home and passed by the living room where her aunt was eyeing her suspiciously.

"So, where have you been off to?" she asked.

"Oh! Well, I was just taking a nice refreshing walk! Nothing like some good exercise to trim down!" Joy lied, knowing
that she would do nothing of the like.

"Oh," her aunt answered, losing most of her suspicion, "Well that's good."

"Well, I guess I'm off to bed. Goodnight."

As Joy gets ready for bed she can't help but be excited about tomorrow night.



"Hahahahaha!!!"

"Grr... I'm gonna get you!"

"No way! Pokeball go! Caterpie!" Ash called, pulling out a Pokeball.

Misty shrieks and hides, but the ball merely pops open empty.

"Hahaha! I can't believe you fell for that! You know I don't have a Caterpie anymore!"

"Ash! You know how much I hate those things.. Carrots, peppers... and worst of all, BUGS!"

"I'm sorry Misty. We haven't fought for a long time. I just wanted to have a little fun."

"THAT'S alright, Ash. I just wanted to have a little fun TOO. I guess I'll sit DOWN!!!"

With all of her force, Misty sits down on Ash.

"WAAAAAAA!!!!!!"

"Pika....." the Pokemon moaned, sweatdropping.


*3:00am, Pokemon Center*

"Mmm, delicious!" Joy excliamed, mouth full. She shoveled whole donuts and cakes into her mouth with ease. She continued
with chocolate and pizzas and whatever else she could get her hands on. Her body was so big it filled the entire room. She
guzzled gallon upon gallon of soda, and continued to gulp down food which seemingly appeared out of nowhere. Suddenly, her
aunt appeared in the doorway, and with a laugh, pricked Joy's belly with a pin.

*BOOM!!!*

Joy shot straight awake.

"What an odd dream... I guess diets can do that to a person..."

She reaches down into her little secret stash of food and pulls out a big chocolate bar and begins to munch on it while
trying to get back to sleep.


Around 4:00pm the next day...

The older Nurse Joy, cheerfully as always, walked up to the main desk.

"Hi. Welcome to the Pallet Town Pokemon Center. I'm Nurse Joy, how may I help you?"

"'Nurse Joy', did you say?" the man at the front asked, "OK, we have your delivery right here, where would you like us to
put it?"

"My delivery? What delivery..."

"This form says you ordered two snack vending machines. Well here they are," he said, gesturing towards the machines right
inside the door.

"Well I had cancelled that order," Joy replied.

"Well, I'm sorry, but this says you ordered two vending machines."

"I only ordered ONE to begin with..."

"So you DID place an order with us?"

"I said I cancelled it! I personally called and said it myself!"

The whole while, the younger Joy was sitting in the other room , grinning and snickering like crazy.

"So, let me get this straight... do you want them or not?"

"No! Look, I'm having enough problems as it is around here. The last thing I need is a junk food dispenser for my obese
niece!!" [Author's Note: Hey, that rhymed!]

Suddenly something struck Joy's mind. "Did you say 'Joy' placed this order?"

"Yeah," he said, then looked at the form, "Oh, hey, here it says the order was modified from one to two vending machines
early yesterday."

"That's when I cancelled....... I think I see what's going on here."

'Uh oh, I better get out of here...' the younger Joy thought nervously.

"I'm sorry but I can't accept these, please take them back. I'm sorry."

"Hey, no problem, I still get paid for this anyway," the guy answered.

As the man carted the snack machines back outside through the door, Joy decided to seek out her niece. "Come out, young
lady. I know what you're up to!"

Knowing she couldn't hide much longer, Joy appeared.

"I know you're the one that called that order in. What is it with you and food? Well I'm through dealing with it. I hope
you like fruit, because where I'm sending you..."

'Oh no!... Is she gonna send me to some weight loss camp? Oh please no... I'll die there!'

"You're going to visit your cousin in the Orange Islands! I'm sure she can teach you a thing or two. I've already
contacted her in case something like this happened... You'll leave tomorrow morning."

Joy realized it was some time after 5:00pm and decided this was the time...

She put on a fake frown, then said, "Aunt Joy, I'm very sorry about what I did, I'm so ashamed. I need to go take a walk
to think about what I did..."

"Alright. As long as you've learned your lesson."

Joy slowly walked towards the door. As she exited, her frown turned upside down and she let out a bit of a laugh.

"Yeah right..."

Then she hurried (well, she didn't quite run) down the road to get to Delia's ex-restaurant. As she neared it, sweet
smells filled the air. She walked through the doors which were still well in tact, and was greeted by Ash, Misty, Tracey,
and Delia.

"We were starting to think you weren't going to show up," Tracey said.

"Luckily Mom isn't done cooking yet, so we have some time to spare," Ash told her.

"Maybe enough time to hear a little story of mine," Joy suggested.

Joy filled them in on everything up through finding out she had to go to the Orange Islands. They all seemed very
interested.

"I can't believe she's forcing me to go... It's gonna be sooo boring."

"Well, why don't we all go?" Ash thought.

"Hey, that's actually a pretty good idea," Misty agreed, "And it came from you, Ash."

"Very funny," Ash answered, not amused.

"And I'm sure Professor Oak would let me have some time off for a vacation," Tracey said.

"Great. So could we go, Mom?"

"It's fine with me. But on one condition: Change your under--"

Ash quickly butted in, "Uh Mom is the food burning cause I think it is!"

"No, I don't believe so. Now, as I was saying you musn't forget to change your underwear EVERY single day."

Ash pulled his hat down over his face and slunk down into the seat. "..."

After a few more minutes Delia turned away from the food in the kitchen. "Alright! The first batch of food is done. Who
wants hamburgers??"

Everyone raised their hands, and Delia prepared them further with buns. Soon everyone was busy eating. Delia was munching
on a burger while she continued to cook. Suddenly there was a knock at the door. Who could it be; they hadn't invited
anyone else. Ash was ready to battle if it was Team Rocket again. The door opened, and a single person walked in. It was
the last person Ash had hoped to see... Gary!!! Gary took a second to glance around.

"I was just in the neighborhood and I saw the condition this dump was in, but I noticed it was still open so I was
wondering, how the heck do you guys stay in business?"

"For your information, the only reason we're closing it down is because we're doing so well financially we don't need it
anymore," Ash explained.

Gary looked over Ash's way and at the girls sitting at the tables.

"Makes sense. Judging from what kind of customers you get, you must be doing VERY well," Gary said, then pointed towards
Misty, "Heck, I'll bet that red-head alone supplies this place with enough money that your mom could send you to Pokemon
Tech!"

"What?!" Ash growled angrily. He was getting pretty furious. He'd been insulted by Gary too many times to count, but to
insult Misty like that was far worse.

"I guess what I was rather trying to say is you have poor taste in girls, Ashy-boy. All you have are these big fat ugly
girls, who have nothing better to do than stuff their faces until they explode."

Delia dropped her fork on the counter as she was taking a break to eat.

"Excuse me?" Delia asked. She had taken this as a direct insult to herself. She was giving him a really nasty look. "At
least my son doesn't have to PAY girls to be around him, unlike some other people."

"Hey, I wasn't paying them! My uncle hired them for me!!" [Author's Note: True Fact!!!]

Delia whipped out a metal spatula that was sitting in the smoking pan where she cooked the hamburgers and she pointed it
near his face.

"Now you admit that you're wrong, and that these two young ladies are very beautiful."

Gary started backing towards the door. "Uhhh..."

"Do it!"

She smacked him in the hand with the spatula, and it was so hot with all the grease it burnt him pretty bad.

"Owww!! No way!" he shouted, then glared at Ash, "I'll get even with you, Ketchum." He then ran out the door.

"Wow. Way to go, Mom!" Ash said, amazed.

Delia just smiled and headed back to the kitchen to continue eating/cooking.

"Ash, I know your mom said otherwise, but I think Gary might be right," Misty said, "I AM ugly, aren't I?"

Ash was totally shocked. A stern look came to his face. "Of course not, Misty. Don't ever think that. All that idiot knows
is how to put people down! You're one of the prettiest things I've ever seen!"

"Wow. Thanks, Ash," Misty answered, blushing.

Everybody then resumed eating. What will happen next to our heroes? Find out in the next chapter of "A Pokemon Gaining
Adventure"!!!

"Pika!!! Chu pika pikachu cha pikachu?? Pika pikachu ka pika!!!!" [Wait!! You call this a Pokemon story?? There weren't
any Pokemon in this freakin' chapter!!!!]


Err... To Be Continued........


[Author's Note: Send any ideas or feedback to me at Mistystuffer@yahoo.com!!! Hope to hear from you.]