One more thing I have to do.
Still on the bench, Serena gave a passing glance down the road as Tierno, Shauna and Trevor all walked up the road with their Pokemon, far ahead of where they had left Serena. She looked up at them, all while she reached into her bag, pulling out the laptop. She smoothed the pink ends of her dress, setting the base of the laptop over her legs and opening the lid. The light of the screen flashed on, her keys glowing.
As her fingers lightly touched on the trackpad, moving the cursor onto the web browser and began combing through comments, she felt the bench beside her bounce lightly. She looked over at Pancham, watching as he lifted himself over the bench, his arms and head over the side with his torso levied on the lip of the bench, his legs kicking up in a desperate bid to push himself over. Serena reached down and helped him along, getting him up onto the bench. Instead of sitting, Pancham got to his feet, looking back up at Serena and giving a stern, concerned look.
"Panpan!"
Serena smiled softly. "No worries, Pancham. I just have one last little thing to do, and then we'll catch up with the others," she said.
Satisfied with the answer, though looking suspicious, Pancham sat himself down on the bench, resting his head against the bench. His little arms folded together as he kept giving Serena suspicious glances.
With a few easy keystrokes, Serena launched the word processor. Her gaze steeled, her lips pursing as she focused on her thoughts.
ringsandamiss007 asks:
Why did you dress up as Ash and why were you smelling his scent on his clothes?
Hi!
Why was I smelling Ash's coat?
Because it smells good! It smells like confidence, and confidence is good!
Thanks for asking!
Serena closed the laptop lid shut. She beamed with pride, feeling much better than she had earlier. She slipped the laptop back into her bag, standing back up and slinging her bag back over her shoulder.
"Pan-chaaa!" Pancham yelled, pumping his furry fist in the air.
Smiling, Serena reached down, meeting the fist. "Come on sweetie, let's go catch up with the others."
Meanwhile:
Behind the cottage, James and Meowth sat with their backs to the wall, both enjoying apples that they held in their hands.
"Can you believe it? Apple trees, on a tropical island!" James beamed, taking another juicy bite. "Maybe our luck is turning out for the better."
"We's may be criminal masterminds, but we's also know that the best things in life are free!" said Meowth, grinning, his lips covered in apple pulp and juices.
Just ahead of them, Jessie sat with the laptop in her lap, her apple at her side remaining completely untouched. Her face glowed in the light of the laptop screen, her features snarling as she read through the comments on Serena's blog. A vein threatened to burst from her forehead.
"Just who does this twerp think she is?!" Jessie shouted, slamming the lid down.
James blinked, completely unaware of the situation unfolding just a few short feet from him. He looked over to Meowth by his side, seeing that he was still in an apple-induced state of bliss, opening his mouth wide to suck down the thin apple core.
Getting to his feet, he walked over to Jessie, cringing and reacting like he was about to get hit when the lid of the laptop slammed down. Still, finding some small center of bravery in him, he pushed on, coming along to her side.
"Sounds like character assassination isn't going as planned..?" James asked, cautiously.
Jessie made fists with her hands, shaking them towards the screen and shouting incoherent, unrepeatable things. She then took the laptop, tossing it as far as she could throw it.
James' first instinct was to panic, but before he could say or do anything, he took a step back to avoid Jessie as she got to her feet and ran down the stretch of field towards where the laptop had landed. James looked to Meowth, waving to him and then picking up to run after her.
Jessie dropped to her knees in front of the laptop. She picked up a rock, gripping it in her hand and bashing the laptop over and over, cracking the casing and smashing through the electronic components inside. She shouted blindly, her whole face turning red with rage.
"Stupid... Stupid...! Somebody oughta teach that brat a lesson—grrrah!—and it's going to be me!" Jessie screeched.
James hesitated, cringing as he heard more and more of the laptop break but moving unsteadily when he wasn't sure what to do.
"Jessie—yikes!—let's consider the outcomes of this course of action before—augh!"
Meowth came over just moments later, panting and out of breath. His reaction changed instantly when he saw the laptop.
"Hey! Whatsa big idea here? That's the only cheapo laptop that we can get! The boss said no more laptopses after this one!" Meowth shouted.
As Jessie let out one loud battle cry, wielding the rock high over her head, James grabbed her arm, stopping her in place. When Jessie went to protest, both of them stopped, pausing and listening to something down below.
The wreckage of the laptop, now sporting a massive crater through the center, was hissing quietly. A thin trail of black smoke snaked out of the cracks.
Jessie, James and Meowth all looked at each other.
As Serena walked across a bridge that connected two large hills, a thin stream far beneath her leading to the sea, she heard something echo through the forest that made her stop. It was the sound of a massive explosion from far away. To Serena, it sounded close to the area she had been in earlier.
A large, fiery explosion rose above the trees, dissipating in the night air. As Serena watched, she thought she could make out the three distinct figures flying through the sky, hurtling up towards the moon away from the explosion. Her eyes narrowed; the figures were too distant to tell, but Serena had a sneaking suspicion of who it was.
"Chaaam..." Pancham said, his eyes glowing and reflecting the fiery explosion, wide with amazement.
Serena smiled. "I guess Ash has been busy!"