Just to let you know that this pokemon arc is after battle frontier and before Diamond & Pearl. Enjoy!
Strawhat in trouble? The Strawhats have made their way into their third world, which has numerous types of animals called pokemon. The Strawhats split up to look for information about their third mystery heart. Luffy and Franky lost sight have Zoro, who ended up in a forest and is currently lost. As Luffy and Franky went on, they fell down a hole which was made by a strange group of people. Who are these guys and what do they want with Luffy and Franky?
Chapter 25: Team Rocket, the guys who can't catch a mouse
Luffy and Franky continued to stare at the duo, who are yet to figure out who are in the hole. "Ah ha ha ha ha ha! This trap must have been used a thousand times before, but it still works like a charm." Jessie said.
"I'll say. Not even in the smartest person could ever avoid such a trap." James said.
"Will you guys stop blabbering, we got work to do." Meowth said.
"Oh yeah, I almost forgot." Jessie said as she got close to the hole. "Well twerp, it looks you have once again fell for our trap. What do you have to say for... yourself?" Jessie then looked at Luffy and Franky in the hole. She then scratched her head in confusion. "This isn't the twerp, just a bunch of other twerps."
"Huh, well whaddya know. They are even more weird than everything else I have seen so far. Especially that blue haired freak right there." Meowth said as he was pointing to Franky.
"Who are you calling a freak, you little rat!?" Franky yelled, as Meowth became angry upon hearing that.
Jessie then looked at James angrily, "James! I thought you said that one of these guys was the twerp, but it turns out to be someone else! Care to explain?"
"Well I thought that we could chase someone else for a change. I mean, failing to capture Pikachu for the last 450 times could really lower you self-esteem." James said sadly. This also made Jessie kind of sad as well.
"You do have a point. But where is the twerp then?" Jessie asked.
"I think he was heading to some place called the Sinnoh region or something." James said as Jessie got furious upon hearing that.
"You idiot! He is all the way over there, while we are still here in Indigo Plateau! It'll take days for us to find him again!" Jessie yelled as fire came out of here eyes.
"Its not my fault that we're here. If it wasn't for that Electivire, we would still be were that twerp was." James said nervously. Meowth then looks angrily at the both of them.
"Well if you hadn't been so weak back then, we could have captured that Electivire when we had the chance. But since you weren't, we are here wasting our time." Meowth said angrily. They continued to argue as it was starting to annoy Franky.
"Its one clown after another. What do we do, Strawhat?" Franky asked as he saw Luffy looking at them with sparks of joy coming out of his eyes. Franky was confused as Luffy got up while continuing to stare at them.
"Those guys... are so cool!!!" Luffy yelled excitedly as Franky fell down in disbelief. Jessie, James and Meowth stopped arguing as soon as they heard that.
"Did you hear that, James?" Jessie asked.
"I heard it, but I don't believe it." James said while in shock.
"Someone actually thinks that we're cool." Meowth said also in shock. They then looked down the hole to see Luffy, who still had sparks coming out of his eyes.
"You guys are so cool! That was like the coolest motto I have ever heard in my life!" Luffy yelled excitedly.
"Please tell me you are bluffing." Franky said in annoyance. Jessie, James and Meowth then looked at eachother until they blushed.
"Well, I can't say that we have never been called cool before, so there is no doubt that he likes us." Jessie said while blushing happily.
"That straw hat twerp sure has a good eye for noticing cool people such as us." James said happily as well.
"You guys are only cool because I am with you all the time, you should thank me for that." Meowth said before he got stomped at the back of his by Jessie and James.
"-sigh-... I feel much better now, but now it's time to go back to work." Jessie said as she then looked at Luffy and Franky. "Since you obviously noticed how great we are, I think it is now time for you to please us by handing over all of your pokemon."
Luffy tilted his head sideways in confusion as a reply.
"Poke-a-what?" Franky asked while scratching the back of his head in confusion. Jessie then looked at them oddly.
"Don't play dumb with us. Give us all of your pokemon, or we are going to stay here until you do." Jessie demanded, till James began to whisper in her ear.
"We are not really going to stay here until they give us their pokemon, are we?" James asked before Jessie looked at him angrily.
"Shut up, James! Let me handle this." Jessie yelled as James backed away from her. Jessie then looks at Luffy and Franky again while she had an evil smirk across her face. "Here is how we are going to do things; Give us all your pokemon, and we'll bury you alive." James then began to whisper at Jessie's ear again.
"Dont you mean 'or'?" James asked as Jessie got infuriated before looking back to Luffy and Franky with alot of anger in her eyes.
"Give us all your pokemon OR will bury you alive." Jessie said angrily. Franky then got up, and looked at Jessie right at her eyes.
"Listen, I don't know what kind of poking you want us to give you, but we won't let you mess around with us!" Franky yelled while shaking his fist. Jessie was now so angry, that several veins started to popping out of her forehead.
"If that's the way you want it, then fine! We are going to bury you right here, right now!" Jessie yelled as she grabbed her shovel from the ground. She then furiously woke up Meowth, and gave him his shovel. "Stop slacking off and start burying!" James then looked at Jessie nervously.
"Jessie, dont you think that this is going a little to far?" James asked before Jessie hit him in the face with his own shovel.
"Less talking, more burying!" Jessie said as she plunged the shovel through a pile of dirt before putting it in the hole were Luffy and Franky are.
"Dont'cha know that we are going to go to jail for this?" Meowth asked as he was doing the same thing Jessie was doing.
"We are already criminals, so it doesn't matter." Jessie replied rudely. Jessie then noticed a pair of hands grabbing on the edge of the hole. She blinked as she looked down in the hole to see Luffy still down there, only that his arms were stretched. Jessie began to sweat in fear as she quickly backed away from the hole as James and Meowth looked at eachother in confusion before looking back at Jessie.
"Is something the matter, Jessie?" James asked curiously.
"He-He-He-He-He str-str-str-str-str-str-str..." Jessie stuttered as she was pointing at the hole. James didn't understand what was wrong so he peeked in the hole and...
"GOMU GOMU NO ROCKET!" Luffy springs out of the hole, almost hitting James as he flew up.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!" James cried like a little girl as Luffy landed on the ground. "Wha-Wha-Wha-What is he!?"
Meowth was surprised as he then saw Franky climbed out of the hole. "Gyah, these guys are like superfreaks or something!" Meowth said nervously. Jessie got back to her senses and got up while looking angrily at Luffy and Franky.
"Superfreaks or not, we are not going to run away! Get up you two, we're not going to lose against these guys!" Jessie yelled as James and Meowth hid behind her legs.
"Okay, Strawhat. You take care of the red one, while I take care of the blue one." Franky said while hitting his palm.
"Aww, I don't want to fight them." Luffy whined. "Oh well, here we go."
Meanwhile...
Usopp and Chopper were starting to get more attention as more pokemon trainers were starting to gather around them. "Dude, you like have the coolest pokemon in the whole world!" A pokemon trainer said as Usopp simply grinned cockingly.
"Ha ha ha, I know. This is the only pokemon worthy to be admired. But not as much as me though since I am the only one who has one." Usopp said as Chopper looked at him with big sparks coming out of his eyes.
"Wow, I didn't know Usopp could be so famous so suddenly." Chopper said actually believing what Usopp was saying, even though everyone is admiring him and not Usopp. There was so many pokemon trainers that it caught the attention of a man wearing an archaeologist suit.
"What is going on?" ased the man as he went through the crowd to see for himself. He then saw Usopp with his arms folded as Chopper lowered his head in shyness.
"Yes sir. Choppermon is one of the most legendary pokemon that ever existed." Usopp said proudly. "Of all the... the... hey old man, how many kind pokemon are there?" Usopp asked to a very old man with a big head.
"Hmm... I believe there are 493 pokemon, young lad." says the old man. Usopp was then shocked after hearing that.
"493!? That is... ahem, I mean of course there are 493 kinds of pokemon, how silly of me of not remembering that." Usopp said as he then faces back at the crowd. "As you all of you might know, there are currently 493 kinds of pokemon out there. But what you all of you don't know is...that Choppermon is the legendary 494th pokemon!!" Usopp yelled as he raised his arms in the air in glory as everyone was clearly amazed, except for the archaeologist man.
"NOOO!" Yelled the archeologist as Usopp and Chopper almost fell after being yelled at.
"Wha-What is the matter?" Usopp asked nervously.
"There is no such pokemon called Choppermon, nor it is ever legendary." said the archaeologist angrily.
"Hey, isnt that Brandon?" asked one of the trainers.
"One of the Frontier brains? I think so. But what is he doing here?" asked another trainer as the archaeologist known as Brandon looks at the crowd.
"Do not believe this man. He is just somebody that likes to make up stories, or in other terms, a liar!" Brandon yelled as he scared Usopp and Chopper again. All the pokemon trainers then got upset before walking away.
"Oi, why did you go and do that for?" Usopp asked.
"Young man, you should know better than to be telling lies to other people; it could lead you to your great demise some day." Brandon said before he walks off.
"Whoa, that guy is smart." Chopper said as Usopp got angry.
"Its thanks to him he took my glory away." Usopp said before Chopper looked at him sternly. "I mean, your glory." Chopper then smiled as Usopp and Chopper continued to walk around town.
In another part of town, Nami, Sanji, and Robin were now at a plaza where there are alot of pokemon trainers. "Looks like that all these guys do, nothing but train there pokemon all day." Nami said until she saw some sort of battle going on in front of here.
"What's that?" Sanji asked as they went to get a closer look as it appeared to be a pokemon battle.
"Alright, Rattata! Tackle attack!" A pokemon trainer yelled as a purple rat called Rattata went charging to his opponent's pokemon.
"Is that all it could do? Don't make me laugh. Machamp, focus punch!" yelled the other pokemon trainer as a muscular creature with four arms called Machamp gave a devastating punch to Rattata as Rattata was completely knocked out. "Yes, I have won again!" said the pokemon trainer as he took out a ball called a pokeball and faced towards his Machamp, which turned red, and beamed inside the ball.
"So its all about teamwork and working with your owner, huh? Quite fascinating." Robin said.
"Good thing I am not a pokemon. I would rather kill myself then follow orders from some nerd." Nami said.
"Hmm... I wonder if I can make a meal out of them?" Sanji asked as several pokemon trainers overheard him.
"Hey buddy! Who do you think you are, thinking of things like that!?" yelled an angry pokemon as more of them gathered around Sanji.
"You clearly have no respect for pokemon, you fiend!" yelled a female pokemon as Sanji felt that his heart was being broken.
"I-I-I am sorry miss, I didn't mean to.." Sanji was saying before she took out her pokeball and let out a pokemon that looked like a bigger pokeball, only that it has eyes.
"Now, Electrode! Self-destruct!" yells the female pokemon trainer.
"Electrode!" says Electrode as he turned before exploding right in front of Sanji as Sanji flew high up in the air before hitting the ground hard. Nami and Robin looked at him before looking at eachother.
"What to continue to look around?" Robin asked.
"Sure, just make sure to bring Sanji along as well." Nami said plainly as she began to walk around the plaza, while a pair of feet sprouted on Sanji's back as Robin walked ahead as the feet followed her. As Nami walked around the plaza, she noticed a stage that featured some sort of magic show. A bunch of children were at there seats as they were anxiously waiting for the magician to show up.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls. Get ready to put your hands together for one of the greatest magicians of all time, which he'll appear in a couple of minutes." says the announcer as the kids were getting excited.
"A magic show? Hmm... I guess I can stay and watch." Nami said as she sat down at one of the empty chairs.
Meanwhile...
Zoro continued to wonder through the forest with no sign of any town anywhere. "Why would a huge forest such as this would be in the middle of the park?" Zoro asked while going through a couple of bushes. He then noticed a small yellow mouse with pink cheeks that was running away from one of those bees with drills for arms. "Not those things again. Oh well, its not chasing me, so its none of my concern." Zoro said as he was about to leave until the little mouse ran into a dead end as it then looked fearfully at the bee with drills which are known as Beedrills.
"Pichu..." said the mouse fearfully as the Beedrill was about to stab it. "PICHU!" cried the mouse as he lowered his head in fear, awaiting for the blow, but it never came. Pichu then looked up to see Zoro, who blocked Beedrill's drill with one of his swords. Zoro then hit the beedrill with the back of his sword as it was knocked out cold. Pichu was amazed until Zoro looked at him, which kinda scared him. "Pichu!" yelled the creature as it pointed a group of Beedrills behind Zoro.
"Hmm? More of them, huh?" Zoro asked as he unsheathed all of his swords out. "TATSU MAKI!" Zoro spun in a circle as a tornado of cutting waves sent all the Beedrills flying in a far distance. Zoro then sheathed his swords as he looked at the mouse again. "You should be more careful around here from now on. Me saving you won't probably happen again." Zoro said as he began to walk away from the mouse.
"Pichu?" said the creature as it then followed Zoro. Zoro noticed this and looked at the mouse.
"Look, you don't want to follow me. I am not the kind of guy who is good with animals." Zoro said as he walked off again, but the creature still followed him. Zoro got a little annoyed, and looked at the mouse again. "What did I just say? You must stay here, while I go elsewhere, okay?" Zoro said as the creature started to do a big puppy dog face. "Don't look at me like that!" Zoro yelled as the mouse the laid while still doing the cute face at Zoro. "Damn...okay fine, just stopping doing that." Zoro said as the mouse climbed up to Zoro's shoulders.
Zoro then started to walk through the forest while having the mouse on his shoulder. "So... do you have a name?" Zoro asked.
"Pichu." said the mouse happily.
"Pichu, huh? Well, Pichu, do you happen to know where the town is?" Zoro asked.
"Pichu." Pichu said while pointing to it's right.
"Good, lets go." Zoro said before going to the opposite direction that Pichu was pointing at, which wasn't for long as Pichu quickly turned Zoro's head the way he was suppose to go.
Back to Luffy and Franky...
Luffy was sadly cracking his knuckles as James and Meowth got out of hiding. "Jessie, why don't we run instead?" The fearful James asked.
"We are not running away! This could finally be our moment to shine, and I am not going to lose this opportunity to achieve it!" Jessie said as Meowth got up with great courage.
"Your right. I aint gonna let some freaks get the better of us!" Meowth said as his claws got bigger.
"Oh... okay, let's give it a shot." James said fearfully. Jessie then took out her pokeball.
"Go Seviper!" yells Jessie as he tosses her pokeball in the air as it opened up to reveal a large snake with big red fangs, stylized yellow textures around its body, and a swordlike tail.
"Seviper!" hissed the creature known as Seviper with a hissing sound as Luffy's eyes popped out of his head.
"Whoa! They can make snakes come out of those balls! Cool!" Luffy said excitedly as James nervously got out his pokeball.
"Come on out, Cacnea!" James yelled as he tosses his pokeball in the air as it opened up to reveal a some sort of round cactus with eyeballs and has a crown on its head and it also has thorny arms.
"Cacnea!" said the cactus before it quickly turned around, and hugged James around his face as its thorns were injuring him.
"Why must you do this every time I call you out!?" James cried in pain as he finally got Cacnea off of him. Cacnea and Seviper were now looking at Luffy and Franky fiercely as they were about to attack.
"A snake and a cactus, huh? I'll take care of the cactus while you take care of the snake, Strawhat." Franky said.
"Ok..." Luffy said depressingly. Seviper then charged at Luffy as Luffy charged at it. Seviper opened its mouth in order to bite Luffy, who dodged it as he then stretched his leg back. "GOMU GOMU NO STAMP!" Luffy thrusts his stretched leg towards Seviper's head as it slid across the ground.
"Seviper, use poison tail!" Jessie commanded as Seviper got up, and rushed towards Luffy as its tail was glowing purple. As Seviper got close, it swung it's tail towards Luffy, who dodged as Seviper bit a tree instead, which melted afterwards.
"Alright, Cacnea, use pin missile!" James commanded as Cacnea then shot numerous of needles to Franky. Franky then takes a deep breath as the needles are getting closer.
"MASTER NAIL!" Franky spits out numerous of his own needles as they all hit Cacnea's needles, thus canceling both of their moves. James mouth was hung after what he just saw.
"D-Did he just spit out needles?" James asked as he then saw Franky raising his right fist.
"STRONG RIGHT!" Franky launched his right fist as it hit Cacnea in the face as it went flying to James face which made fell down in pain. Jessie and Meowth were in complete shock as they then looked at Franky.
"That guy is some sort of cyborg!" Meowth said in fear as Jessie looked at Luffy.
"It will take more than a rubberband man and a cyborg to beat us! Seviper, use Haze!" Jessie commanded as Seviper let out a huge stream of black smoke from its mouth.
"Gah, cant...see..." Luffy coughed as he was covering his nose, and mouth due to the horrible odor.
"Now Seviper, use headbutt!" Jessie commanded as Seviper delivered a headbutt directly into Luffy's head as Luffy was about to fall down, but quickly regained his balance, and grabbed Seviper by the neck.
"GOMU GOMU NO..." Luffy stretched his neck as back as he could "...KANE!" Luffy does a headbutt of his own as Seviper fell to ground in pain as the black smoke started to clear. As Seviper got up, He saw Luffy stretching his leg again "GOMU GOMU NO MUCHI!" Luffy does a stretched horizontal kick at Seviper who got hit directly as he slid near Jessie.
"Grr... come on out, Dustox!" Jessie yelled as she took out another pokeball and tossed it in the air as it opened up to reveal a poison moth. "Dustox, use gust!" Jessie commanded as Dustox was flapping it's wings at a fast rate, creating a gust of wind. Luffy tries to keep his balance as the gust was almost making him fall. "Seviper, use poison fang!" Jessie commanded as Seviper lunged at Luffy with its mouth wide open.
"GOMU GOMU NO PISTOL!" Luffy punched Seviper across the face as it was now knocked out. When this was happening, Cacnea was facing Franky again.
"Cacnea, use needle arm!" James commanded as Cacnea swings his huge thorn arm at Franky.
"HOSHI SHIELD!" Franky left arm turned into a shield as he blocked Cacnea's needle arm. Franky then punched Cacnea across the face as it slid across the ground. Franky felt a little pain after hitting cactus pokemon, but he ignored it as he aimed at Cacnea with his left arm "WEAPONS LEFT!" Franky fires a missle towards Cacnea as it exploded upon impact. As the smoke cleared, Meowth came flying straight to Franky.
"Take this!" Meowth yelled as he slashed right through Franky's face, destroying his sunglasses in the process. Before Meowth could land, Franky quickly grabbed Meowth by his head.
"You slashed my face!" Franky yelled before throwing Meowth straight into the semi-unconcious Cacnea, who was now unconscious after being hit.
"Dustox, use stun spore!" Jessie commanded as Dustox let out a multiple spores as it was starting to paralyze Luffy.
"Tsk, I have to use this." Franky said as he connects his forearms to a tube "70mm koukei 0.2 Cola hou..." the tube then started to inhale all the spores Dustox released "COUP DE VENT!" Franky fires the pores right into Jessie and James and Meowth as well as their pokemon.
"Can't... move..." Jessie grunted as Luffy was no longer paralyzed, and then started to swing his left arm in circles as Franky aims at them. Luffy's arm then glowed red while Franky's right arm glowed blue.
"We're... done... for..." James says as Luffy and Franky were about to attack.
"STRONG PISTOL!" Luffy thrusted his left red fist at them at the same time as Franky launched his right fist. The fists then hit the ground below his opponents as it created a huge explosion of red and blue colors, as Jessie, James and Meowth along with their pokemon started to fly away.
"I told you we shouldn't have faced them in the first place." James cried while flying in the air.
"I thought we could beat them, but it was too good to be true." Jessie said sadly.
"I guess it doesn't matter since we have experience on failing anyway." Meowth said as Jessie and James nodded.
"Looks like Team Rocket is blasting off agaaain!" They shouted before they are no longer in sight. Franky grabs a pair of sunglasses out of his Hawaiian shirt and puts them on, while Luffy was kinda sad.
"Aww man, those guys were cool. Too bad they were evil." Luffy said.
"If evil means being a bunch of losers, then yeah, they're evil." Franky said as he then noticed an audience. The audience were now giving them a round of applause as Franky then started to pose victoriously to them. Luffy then did his smile as then a female officer with blue hair then walked up to them.
"Would you two come with me, please?" said the officer as Luffy and exchanged looks before looking back at the officer.
"What did we do?" Luffy asked.
"We cannot discuss about that here, you have to follow me to the station in order to know." said the officer as she obliged Luffy and Franky to follow her. Luffy decided to follow her as Franky took a moment to be adored by the crowd before following the officer to town.
TO BE CONTINUED...
Okie-dokie I have nothing much to say right now. Except that I don't think that motto was the best except for the original one. Hope you enjoyed this chapter.