Chapter 21 Rooftop Battles!

"Hitmonchan here is very strong, and he would make a fine addition. Hitmonlee...well, he is strong, but there is something you should know about him...," Karate King trailed off.

Magmar looked at Hitmonlee carefully. He looked just like a Hitmonlee... "What's wrong with him?"

Karate King sighed. "He uses his fists in battle like a Hitmonchan."

There was an explosion of laughter around the gym, led by Tyler's rivals. "A Hitmonlee that punches!" Colin laughed, making the others laugh louder.

Suddenly, Snoopy burst out of Pokéball. He grabbed his tail, pretended to load it like if it was a machine gun, and shot several shots of paint at Colin and the other rivals.

Colin stopped laughing and shouted, "YOU STUPID DOG!!"

Snoopy just laughed in a cute voice. "HA HA HA HA!! HO HO HO HO!!" His laughter sounded somewhat familiar.

Tyler turned to Karate King again. "So how many trainers have refused to take this Hitmonlee?" he asked.

"Twelve," Karate King replied bluntly.

"Ouch," Magmar remarked.

"Well, that settles it! I'm choosing Hitmonlee!" Tyler exclaimed.

Magmar did not protest; he thought Tyler was doing the right thing. Smeargle did not protest; he would like Hitmonlee no matter what he used his fists, feet or his head in battles. Colin did protest; he really didn't have say in it, but he still protested.

"You're picking the freak?!" he yelled. "You're stupider than I thought!"

Tyler looked down at his Smeargle. "Snoopy, please take care of your ex-trainer!"

Snoopy grinned wickedly. He jumped onto Magmar's back and shouted an order. Magmar charged at them, imitating an airplane. Smeargle took out his tail and shot rapid-fire paint blasts at them. The rivals ran out of the room screaming.

***

"So, you now have Magmar, Jolteon, Pinsir, Nidoking, Smeargle and Hitmonlee!" Meghan reviewed Tyler's Pokémon.

"Yep! So where is the gym that gives a badge? I want to see Hitmonlee in action!" Tyler exclaimed.

As they walked around town, they noticed a gigantic building in the middle of the town. It was quite impressive in size, indeed.

"Interesting building," Tyler remarked.

Suddenly, two people came out from inside the building and towards them. The guy short black hair and big glasses covering his brown eyes. The girl had long blond hair and blue eyes. They were both dressed like in proper clothes; the kind of clothes nobody enjoys wearing but the boss of the business seems to think it is appropriate manner.

"Welcome! We would like to present you an award!" the boy exclaimed.

"For...what?" Tyler asked.

"Uh...what was it for again?" the girl asked the boy.

"Heeeeeey, I know you two!" Magmar exclaimed. "You're those two Team Rocket idiots!"

The two looked surprised and horrified, then instantly looked angry. "We are not Team Rocket members!" the boy exclaimed.

"Yeah! Why are you accusing us?" A third voice came from inside the boy. He quickly punched his back and a loud "ACK!!" followed.

Tyler rolled his eyes. "If you thought we would fall for that, you must think we're really stupid!"

The two jumped backwards and laughed loudly. "Prepare...," David yelled, grabbing onto his costume and yanking it off, exposing his Rocket outfit.

"For trouble!" Kris yelled, yanking off her costume, exposing...herself.

"AAAAAAH!!" Tyler yelled, covering his eyes and looking away. Magmar and the other humans did the same thing.

David groaned and looked down, gently slapping his forehead. "Kris," he muttered slowly. "Didn't I tell you to wear your Rocket outfit underneath your costume?"

"It was too uncomfortable!" Kris complained, then she shivered. "Brrrr, it's cold."

Meowth cleared his throat. "The motto now, guys!"

"Oh, yeah!" David exclaimed. "Prepare for trouble!"

"Yeah, and m-make it d-double!" Kris stammered.

"Watch your back, cause here we come!"

"We're g-gonna p-prove to you we're n-not d-dumb!"

"You'll see in a minute that we're the best!"

"I'm naked now, so you can see my br-"

"KRIS!!!" David interrupted.

"What?"

"...Never mind! We're Team Rocket, and we are stronger!"

"We'll r-rule Earth for eternity, and e-even l-longer!"

"Meowth, you're a goner!"

"So what do you want? My badge?"

Meowth nodded. "But we realize that we can't get it from you with that Magmar around. So we kidnapped your friends Elizabeth, Kat, Max and Ahchoo!"

"Bless you!" Kris exclaimed.

Tyler glared at Meowth. "Oh, so you've decided to sink down to that level, huh? Well, we'll just rescue them! What does your book say?"

Meowth looked down at the ground. "I don't have it anymore. The editors took it so that they could make corrections on it!"

"Meet us at the top of the building! We'll be waiting for you!" David yelled. He, Meowth and a naked Kris ran into the building. Several shrieks and wolf whistles followed a few seconds later.

"We've have to rescue our friends! But that building is probably swarming with Rockets!" Tyler exclaimed.

"I heard somewhere that Team Rocket took over a big building called the Sliph Company. This must be it!" Meghan observed.

"Well, shouldn't we go in there and rescue our friends?" Maria asked.

"The Rockets will recognize me and most likely Tyler," Kate informed Maria. "We need to be wearing disguises."

"Hmmm. Like what?" Magmar asked.

***

A half-hour later, five people entered the building. They were very strangely dressed, as they looked like something from a fantasy game. In fact, they were characters from a fantasy game. Diablo II, to be precise.

Tyler, who was dressed in silver clothes, a crown-like helmet and heavy boots, walked up to the counter. "Excuse me!" he called out to the people. Even with his strange outfit, everyone ignored him.

Kate, who dressed up in green clothes, a brown headband and holding a long staff, pounded on the counter. "HEY! Can we get some help here? Don't ignore him!" No one paid attention to her either.

Maria, dressed in tight red and yellow clothes and with knee-high boots, walked up to the counter as well. "Hello? Come on, we don't want to be rude!" The people still ignored them, being ruder than they were.

Meghan, dressed in black clothes and holding two small daggers in her hand, just shook her head and muttered, "I don't think we're getting their attention, guys."

"Just leave it to me!" Magmar, who was dressed in brown clothes and had blue war paint on his face, jumped onto the counter. He bellowed loudly, sending a shockwave towards the people who were ignoring him. They all ran to him instantly and started begging for forgiveness. "Ah, shut up and tell me where the elevator is!" he roared. They pointed to the elevator, then crawled back to their work.

"Nice job!" Meghan complimented as Magmar jumped down from the counter.

***

Meanwhile, on the rooftop, Giovanni, Kris, Kim, David, Josh and Meowth were on the rooftop. Kitty, Max, Alex and Elizabeth were tied together in a circle face-outward.

"Here you go, birdies!" Kris chirped, flinging birdseed to the side of the building.

Giovanni rolled his eyes.

"Nice birdies! Enjoy your meal!" Kim laughed as she tossed some of her own birdseed.

Meowth groaned and looked down at the ground.

"Eat up! You want to be strong, don't you?" Kris chimed.

Josh looked away from them, pretending not to know them.

"Gobble gobble! Ha ha! Eat up! You love your food, don't ya?" Kim cried.

David sighed heavily. He couldn't take it anymore. "Girls, please stop throwing birdseed at the helicopters!"

"We've been kidnapped by a bunch of dumb blondes!" Alex whined.

Kris glared at him. "Listen...what's your name again?"

"Ahchoo."

"Bless you. Anyway, you shouldn't insult us if you know what's good for you!" Kris snapped.

***

Our non-kidnapped friends, who were still dressed as Diablo II characters, were heading up the elevator. The elevator took them to the floor that was right under the rooftop. When the door opened, they quietly walked into the hallway, trying to be quiet.

They heard someone shouting in a room nearby. "TALK, WILL YOU!?" POW!! The sound of a fist hitting someone could be heard. "TALK!!" POW!! "ARE YOU GOING TO TALK!?" POW!! "...Bah. He's not going to talk. Get him out of my sight!"

A Rocket grunt pushed a Mr. Mime out of the room. Magmar whacked the Rocket in the head, knocking him out. The Mr. Mime thanked her silently, then ran to the elevator.

Tyler burst into the room. A female Rocket executive was preparing a whip. In a chair in front of her was a very scared-looking Abra.

"No! You can't do that to Pokémon!" Tyler shouted, scaring the Rocket executive. He released Jolteon, who zapped the Rocket executive into unconsciousness. Tyler ran over to the Abra. "You okay?"

When Abra nodded, Kate said, "Okay, you can go and find your trainer now! You're free!"

Abra shook his head sadly and pointed at the fainted Rocket executive. "Aaaaabraaaa," he hissed.

"You mean that woman is your trainer!?" Maria gasped. Abra nodded in sorrow.

"Well, what was the whip for?" Meghan asked.

"Aaaabra bra bra aaaaabra!" Abra gargled. The others turned to Magmar, who made a face.

"Trust me, you don't wanna know!" Magmar growled.

"Why don't you come with me, Abra? Then you can evolve when you want to!" Tyler asked.

Abra jumped up and down happily. "Aaaaaabra!!" he chimed.

***

"When are those kids going to be here?" Giovanni growled. "It's getting really boring up here!"

Suddenly, our heroes burst onto the rooftop from the door that leads to the rooftop. Abra and Magmar stood next to Tyler.

Kris laughed. "Right on time! Now, give over the badge and Kate, and we'll hurt your friends!"

David slapped her head from behind. "No! You mean, give over the badge and Kate, and we WON'T hurt your friends!"

Abra and Magmar stepped up. Magmar breathed in deeply and Abra started powering up his psychic powers.

"Quick, my minions! Do something!" Giovanni ordered. Josh and Kim jumped in front of Giovanni.

Abra let loose his Psybeam attack and Magmar let out a stream of fire. The Flamethrower and the Psybeam attacks combined and blasted Josh and Kim off the building. "That gives new meaning to 'psyburn', don't it Abra?" Magmar laughed.

Two loud THUD!!'s could be heard afterwards. It was not something very pleasant to listen to.

Author's Note: Once again, I realize that my story could be in dangerous need of some humor. You all must see that it is very difficult to make a story very funny. You could try filling it with potty humor, but then the only readers you'd get are people who stick their heads in toilets for fun. You could try sexual humor, but then all you get are naughty teenagers. So you have to spread your humor out, and this is a part where the humor doesn't quite make it. You know how you spread butter on toast, but not every part is covered with butter? That's what a story is like. But back to the story now.

Toast and butter...that reminds me! I'm hungry.

Back on the roof, Kris, David and Meowth were staring in horror at the Abra.

David growled and released his Houndour and Kris sent out Sandshrew. "Let's see how your Abra does against my Houndour!" David yelled.

Tyler released another Pokémon. It was his new Hitmonlee.

"Oh, a Hitmonlee, huh? Houndour, use Crunch on his foot!" David ordered.

Houndour sprinted towards Hitmonlee, jumped into the air, and just before he could give Hitmonlee a lot more pain in his foot than a stubbed toe could, Hitmonlee grabbed the devil dog Pokémon and punched it.

Houndour went flying and smacked into David. Houndour fell off first and David feel off a few seconds later after losing his balance. "WAAAAAAAAA-" THUD!

Abra used another Psybeam to knock Sandshrew off the roof. Meowth looked at Magmar, Hitmonlee and Abra in fear. "No need!" he shouted. He turned around and jumped off the building himself. "AYYYYYYYYIEEEEEEEEE-" THUD!! "......It's okay......I landed on my feet."

"You wouldn't hit a girl, now would you?" Kris taunted them.

Abra jumped in front of everyone and nodded vigorously. He started using his psychic powers again to create an aqua aura around Kris. But no sooner did the aura kick in, Kris's clothes fell off!

The humans and Magmar all gasped and covered their eyes. Abra blushed in embarrassment, but was unable to look away. Hitmonlee had the same problem. "Hit hit hitmon mon lee lee hitmonlee!" he muttered.

"What'd he say?" Tyler asked Magmar.

"He said, Now I see why people like psychic types so much!'" Magmar translated.

"Hmmm...maybe I should've more careful when I put my clothes on!" Kris hummed.

Abra flung the naked Rocket girl off the roof before he would regret doing it.

Giovanni growled. "You fools! I'm going to get Kate whether you knock off all my minions or not!" He charged at Kate, hands outstretched. Abra used his psychic powers to lift Giovanni over all of them and off the other side of the building.

As Giovanni screamed and fell down to the ground, he noticed he was going to land in the back of a truck that was full of plants. "Oh, good! The plants will break my fall! I'm in luck!"

As Giovanni slammed into the back part of the truck, the truck driver was busy talking to one of the workers at the door. "Here's your order, sir! One hundred cacti plants!"

Author's Note: I also forgot to mention black humor. Don't you just love it? CHOMP!! Mmmmm, good toast!

***

Now during the whole part of the Rockets falling off the building, two Pokémon that could speak English, a Heracross and a Golduck, were sitting at a table near the window. They were busy playing Game Boy Advance. Suddenly, Josh fell past the window.

"Hey, did you see that?" The Heracross asked the Golduck.

"What?" she replied.

"Someone just fell past that window over there!" Heracross cried, pointing at the window.

"Really?"

"Yes!"

"It must be that season again!" With that, Golduck went back to playing her Game Boy Advance.

"Oh, yeah," Heracross shrugged and went back to his game.

Kim floated down past the window.

"Hey! A second person just fell down the window, but this one floated down!" Heracross cried.

Golduck looked at the window. "Hmmm. Must have been an air head!"

"Oh!" The two went back to their Game Boy Advances.

Houndour fell down past the window.

"Hey, someone else fell past the window! This time, it was a Pokémon!" Heracross exclaimed.

"Oh," Golduck replied simply, not even looking at the window this time.

Heracross was a bit surprised by his friend ignoring the fact that people were falling past the window. "Look! Three people-"

David fell past the window.

"FOUR people have fallen down past that window to arrive painfully on the ground!"

Golduck blinked, then looked out the window. "...Must be Team Rocket."

"Oh, yeah."

Sandshrew fell past the window.

"Hmm, I think that was a Sandshrew. Couldn't really tell; it was moving so fast," Heracross observed.

"No, I think that was a Meowth," Golduck disagreed.

"No, it was a Sandshrew."

"It was a Meowth."

"Sandshrew!"

"Meowth!"

Meowth fell past the window.

"THAT was a Meowth."

"That was a Meowth," Golduck agreed.

"Wonder who will fall past next?" Heracross thought out loud.

A naked Kris fell past the window.

Heracross and Golduck looked at each other in disbelief.

"Are we going crazy?" Heracross asked Golduck.

"I surely hope not!"

"Hey!" Heracross yelled everyone else. "Is anyone else seeing people falling past their window?"

A few seconds of silence, then, "Yeah! This big, bald man fell past my window!"

"Thank you!" Heracross replied, then turned to Golduck. "We're not going crazy!"

"Oh, good!"

They went back to their games.

WE ARE ENDING THE CHAPTER THERE BEFORE ANYONE ELSE GETS HURT VERY BADLYYYYYY-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-THUD!!!!