AN: The next two stories aren't new. I just wanted to move some one-shots I wrote from being individual stories to my story The Joys Of Children. Sorry. :(

The Maddie Show

MADDIE: AGE 6

"Misty! Misty!" I heard my husband yell, racing down the steps. Setting down the bowl I was using, I rushed to meet him at the end of the steps.

"What's wrong?" I asked him in a panic.

He just looked at me, a confused look on his face. "Nothing's wrong."

"Ash!" I yelled. "Don't worry me like that! I thought something bad had happened!"

"I'm sorry," he apologized. "I just came down to ask you where the boom box was."

"What do you need the boom box for?" I asked him a bit suspicious.

"I'm trying to teach Maddie something."

"In the guest room." With that, he turned around and ran back up the steps. I shook my head at his retreating figure, confused by my husband's antics. What exactly was he teaching my daughter up there?

The next morning, I was drinking my morning coffee and reading the paper when a yellow piece of paper fell out of the newspaper.

The Maddie Show

11AM Today

The Family Room

My daughter Maddie liked to put on little shows for Ash and I using the Pokemon. I had slowly started to learn when these shows would occur because Pikachu, a main actor in all her shows, would mysteriously go missing after breakfast. Like every show day, she would slip a note she had written, with the help of Ash, into the newspaper for me to see. I learned quickly that I didn't need to reply because she didn't allow anybody to see her before the show, forcing me to have to wait. Normally my husband was around after breakfast, but he had gone mysteriously missing as well.

To pass the time until the show, I did some minimal cleaning around the kitchen, making sure to stay out of the family room. When the clock read 10:55, I poured myself some tea and headed to the family room. When I got the family room, I noticed that any trace of sunlight had been covered up. What was she doing? As I looked at Maddie's makeshift stage in front of the fireplace, I noticed the boom box Ash had asked about yesterday. Hmmm. I was slowly starting to connect the dots.

At exactly 11:00, the lights went out and I was left in the dark, unable to see anything. Suddenly, though, two spotlights sitting on the mantle lit up the stage and I heard an all too familiar tune coming from the boom box. Please, god, tell me he did not teach her what I thought he did.

"Prepare for trouble!" I heard my husband yell.

"And make it double!" Maddie yelled, following Ash's lead.

Yep. He did.

"To protect the world from devastation!"

"To unite all peoples within our nation!"

"To denounce the evils of truth and love!"

"To extend our reach to the stars above!"

"Ash!" Ash yelled, finally turning around.

"Maddie!" she mimicked, striking a victory pose of her own.

"Team Rocket, blast off at the speed of light!"

"Surrender now, or prepare to fight!"

"Pi! Pikachu!" Pikachu concluded, landing on the front of the stage dressed in a Mewoth costume.

"We want lunch!" Maddie demanded, decked out in a mini Team Rocket uniform.

"I don't make lunch for super villains," I teased her.

"Fine then. You've left us with no choice. I choose you Maddie!" Ash called to our daughter. Was he really going to now convince her that she was a pokemon in addition to a member of Team Rocket? "Use tickle attack!" My daughter raced towards me her hands ready to attack.

Luckily, I was able to catch her before she got to me, picking her up and placing her in a lap. She giggled in excitement as I retaliated and tickled her little tummy. "Stop Mommy," she cried.

"Don't give in, Maddie. Use charm just like I taught you." He was a sneaky one that Ash.

"I love you, Mommy," Maddie told me, turning around to give me a hug and big slobbery kiss on the cheek. "You're the best and most bootiful Mommy in the whole world." As much as I fought it, it was hard not to give in to my daughter's baby talk and puppy dog eyes.

"Alright, fine. I'll make us lunch," I sighed in defeat, as I stood up and placed her on the floor.

"Good work, Maddie," Ash complimented her. I almost expected him to say, "return".

"You know?" I told Ash. "Her and Pikachu could take over Team Rocket together with that routine."

"Ha ha. Probably," he laughed.

"I can't believe you taught her that."

"Well, while I was reading the paper the other day, she walked in and asked me for show ideas. I happened to be reading an article about Team Rocket when I came up with the idea. I mean, we had a ton of fun saying the motto as kids."

"Well, you're officially banned from giving her ideas."

"But she was great!" he said, trying to persuade me otherwise.

"You should tell Jessie, James and Meowth," I smirked. "They would be so proud."

"Whatever, Mist. You know you loved it and thought it was beyond adorable." Just as I was about to whack him upside the head for that comment, we heard the doorbell ring.

"I'll get it!" Maddie yelled as she raced to the front door. We heard her open the door before the next thing we heard was, "Prepare for trouble!"

"What?" I heard a confused Brock ask. "ASH! MISTY!"

"See what you've done?" I pointed out. "You've created a monster."

"Oh, god," he replied, smacking his forehead.

For the next month, whenever she answered the door or ran into a room, that's all we heard. It was like being chased by Team Rocket all over again.