No good deed goes unpunished
Disclaimer: This fic is rated PG-13 for graphic violence, adult language, and other things that would NEVER be shown on Pokemon. It used to be R, but because of certain defaults, I've felt it necessary to change that. This is my first try at a chapter fic, so bear with me. While most Pokemon scripts are based on Ash and his friends, this fic is NOT! In fact, the star of this fic is.. Well, you'll see. I must warn you, if you're feeling depressed or upset, I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND READING THE FIC RIGHT NOW! Oh, and I don't own most of the characters in the fic. Nintendo does. Also, I don't own any websites mentioned in the fic. But I don't know who does.
*20 minutes later*
Josh is still behind the wheel, a stone expression on his face, while Meowth sits next to him and Jessie and James sit in the backseat. Josh has been driving a little bit recklessly in his efforts to get to Mondo's aid and it's left Meowth feeling a little carsick
Meowth: (green-faced) How much further is it? I feel like I'm gonna throw up.
Josh: Just hang on, it's not much further to Ripper Hall. (silently) But oh how I wish it was.
Jessie: Do you even have a plan once you get there?
Josh: Yeah, I do. Me and Meowth'll go inside and try to find Mondo, while you two wait out here in case we need you to call 911 or to help us get the heck outta there in a hurry!
Josh makes a couple of sharp turns and it becomes too much for the carsick cat-pokemon to handle
Meowth: (gagging) I need a paper bag, quick!
Jessie hands Meowth a paper bag and as soon as he gets it, Meowth opens the bag and hurls his dinner into it
Jessie: Easy, there!!! You'll puke out an organ like that!
After Meowth finishes launching his lunch into the paper bag, he opens a window and chucks it outside
Jessie: Man, you can't seem to keep anything down!
Meowth: Well, excuse me! When I get this nervous, I get nauseous!
James: Alright, stop fighting! (nervously) Hey Josh?
Josh: Yeah?
James: (takes a deep breath) I'm afraid to ask, but what exactly happened between you and Harris?
James instantly regrets asking the question and recoils in preperation for the inevitable explosion from Josh. But all the teen does is bitterly laugh at the question
Josh: I knew it. I just knew someone would ask me that!!!
James: I'm sorry..
Josh: Don't be.. (sighs) You really want to know what happened?
Jessie: Yeah, we do.
Meowth: Yeah.
Josh: (taking a deep breath) Ok. I'll tell you. on one condition.
Meowth: What condition would that be?
Josh: That you promise that you'll believe what I'm saying is the truth and that you won't act like I'm making the whole thing up!
Jessie, James, Meowth: Deal!
Josh: Ok. Here's the whole story.
(the screen slowly dissolves, and comes back together not in the truck, but in a study where a silver-haired man is eagerly getting a big briefcase packed while he's surrounded by boxes)
Josh: (V.O.) It was 6 years ago in hollywood.. My dad had just been given a promotion in a place called Viridian City, so him, my mom, and I were set to move up there. But little did any of us know that we'd never get the chance to move.
The silver-haired man finishes up packing the last box and stands up in triumph
SHM: There, finished! All set to go tomorrow!
The man walks into a kitchen where a brown-haired woman and a raven-haired boy are sitting at a table sipping lemonade
BHW: Are we all set, Steven dear?
Steven: Sure are, Allison honey! Just got the last box packed and we're all set!
Allison: Oh. this'll be so exciting, you're actually getting to be a gym leader after all these years. Your dream is coming true at last!
RHB: (without enthusiasm) Yeah.
Steven: What's wrong, Josh?
It's at this point that it becomes clear that the family in the flashback is Josh's family
Josh: I just have this feeling like something's gonna happen that'll stop us from leaving Hollywood.
Steven: You're just nervous. Nothing is gonna happen!
Josh: But something always does!!! Like the day before the Pokemon League tournament to which we had front row seats!
Allison: (irritated) For the last time, it was not your father's fault that he threw his back out training with his Machoke! Which reminds me.. (turning to Steven) Are the pokemon all up at the new gym?
Steven: (proudly) Yep, just sent the last one last night! Nurse Joy's taking of them for me until we get up there!
Josh sighs resignedly and gets up from table
Josh: I just know something bad is going to happen! I just know it!
As Josh walks out of the room, Steven and Allison look at their son and just shrug off his moody demeanor as we skip towards that night in the bedroom of an asleep Allison and Josh Taylor and Josh's V.O. resumes
Josh: (V.O.) Convinced that I was just nervous, my parents let me camp out in their room that night. Dad stayed up to get some last minute packing done. What happened next. I had prayed I'd never have happen..
As Allison and Josh slumber, we pan over to the living room where we see Steven sitting on the floor, thinking about what his son said earlier
Steven: What could he possibly mean by something bad is gonna happen before the move? He's always saying that! What does it mean?
Suddenly the glass window behind him breaks and as he turns around he sees the barrel of a shotgun pointed at his face and as the gun is discharged into Steven's skull a voice coldly says
Voice: It means you should have listened to your kid!
As the holder of the gun steps through the broken window, we see that it's Harris Sythe standing over the body of Steven Taylor as Allison and Josh rush into the living room scared
Allison: What was that awf.. (seeing her husband's body) (shrieking) OH GOD STEVEN!!!!!
Josh: (shell-shocked) What the fuck did you do?!?
Harris: The same thing I'm about to do to you.
But as he fires the gun at Josh, Allison dives in front of him, taking the bullet to the chest as Josh just stares in horror as what he's just witnessed
Josh: (grief-stricken) No! No! Mom, don't leave me!!!!
Harris: If you want to stay alive, (puts the barrel of the shotgun against Josh's forehead) you'll keep your trap shut and follow me!
Josh: (V.O.) Having no choice, I had to follow Harris back to Ripper hall. The next 10 days after that were nothing but pure hell!
As a helpless Josh Taylor is led by Harris out of the house, the screen dissolves and reforms back into the interior of the truck carrying Team Rocket who is speechless
Josh: After Meowth eventually freed me from Harris's clutches, I knew that I'd never be mentally able to care for my father's pokemon, so I let Nurse Joy keep them. I opted to spend the rest of my days alone instead of living with the only other living relative that the police could find of my family. The gym was torn down and a monument to my dad was put in its place. My parents were buried the day before I was freed from that madman's grasp..
Josh pauses to let a tear slowly run down his face
Josh: ..and that's what happened.
James: Oh.. Oh my.
Jessie: To think, I always though MY mom's death was traumatic!
Meowth: But why didn't you want to stay with a relative instead of being all alone.
Josh: Because the only other relative that they found was the most hated, most sadistic member of my family tree..
James: Who was it?!?
What Josh says next is a total shock to Jessie, James, and Meowth
Josh: My cousin, Jessibelle Coudfeld.
At the mention of the name, James screams and stares at Josh in terror
James: YOU MEAN JESSIBELLE'S YOUR COUSIN?!?
Josh: It unfortunately seems like you've met her too?
James: Met her?? MY PARENTS WANTED ME TO MARRY THAT SADISTIC CUNT!!!
Jessie: (shocked) James!!!
Josh: No, that's pretty much what I think of her too. Always saying (in a mock-southern tone) "Be proper" "That's not the right way to do it" "You'll be a gentleman and like it!!!" (shudders) She's almost as bad as Harris!
Jessie: Yeah.. But James was only engaged to her. You're her relative!!!
Josh: (softly) Don't remind me.. (sighs as he looks out the window and sees the infamous HOLLYWOOD sign) Ripper Hall dead ahead!
The truck pulls up in front of the run-down house from earlier and Meowth and Josh get out
Josh: (to Jessie and James) Listen, if we're not back in 15 minutes, (hands his cell phone over to James) call the cops!
James: Ok..
Meowth: Don't worry, we'll be back soon with Mondo. (silently) I hope.
As Josh and Meowth head inside the hall, Jessie and James look back at them in worry
Jessie: I just want to get out of this neighborhood! It's just screaming "murder"!
James: Don't worry, we'll be out so.
Suddenly, James stops speaking and grasps the back of his neck
Jessie: (frightened) James???
James slowly falls unconscious into the back seat, where Jessie finds a small dart in his neck
Jessie: (scared) James, what happened???
A cold, southern-accented voice answers..
Voice: The same thing that's gonna happen to you, you improper little whore!
Jessie, knowing full well who that voice belongs to, turns around in terror and the last thing she sees before getting shot with another tranquilizer dart is the face of Jessibelle Coudfeld
Jessie: (straining) Why. did you do this..
Jessie collapses next to James as Jessibelle stands next to the shattered truck window
Jessibelle: Because with Harris's help, I'm finally gonna make James my husband!
Jessibelle starts to laugh a sick, twisted laugh as we see Jessie and James both lying motionless in the truck's backseat
TO BE CONTINUED
Disclaimer: This fic is rated PG-13 for graphic violence, adult language, and other things that would NEVER be shown on Pokemon. It used to be R, but because of certain defaults, I've felt it necessary to change that. This is my first try at a chapter fic, so bear with me. While most Pokemon scripts are based on Ash and his friends, this fic is NOT! In fact, the star of this fic is.. Well, you'll see. I must warn you, if you're feeling depressed or upset, I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND READING THE FIC RIGHT NOW! Oh, and I don't own most of the characters in the fic. Nintendo does. Also, I don't own any websites mentioned in the fic. But I don't know who does.
*20 minutes later*
Josh is still behind the wheel, a stone expression on his face, while Meowth sits next to him and Jessie and James sit in the backseat. Josh has been driving a little bit recklessly in his efforts to get to Mondo's aid and it's left Meowth feeling a little carsick
Meowth: (green-faced) How much further is it? I feel like I'm gonna throw up.
Josh: Just hang on, it's not much further to Ripper Hall. (silently) But oh how I wish it was.
Jessie: Do you even have a plan once you get there?
Josh: Yeah, I do. Me and Meowth'll go inside and try to find Mondo, while you two wait out here in case we need you to call 911 or to help us get the heck outta there in a hurry!
Josh makes a couple of sharp turns and it becomes too much for the carsick cat-pokemon to handle
Meowth: (gagging) I need a paper bag, quick!
Jessie hands Meowth a paper bag and as soon as he gets it, Meowth opens the bag and hurls his dinner into it
Jessie: Easy, there!!! You'll puke out an organ like that!
After Meowth finishes launching his lunch into the paper bag, he opens a window and chucks it outside
Jessie: Man, you can't seem to keep anything down!
Meowth: Well, excuse me! When I get this nervous, I get nauseous!
James: Alright, stop fighting! (nervously) Hey Josh?
Josh: Yeah?
James: (takes a deep breath) I'm afraid to ask, but what exactly happened between you and Harris?
James instantly regrets asking the question and recoils in preperation for the inevitable explosion from Josh. But all the teen does is bitterly laugh at the question
Josh: I knew it. I just knew someone would ask me that!!!
James: I'm sorry..
Josh: Don't be.. (sighs) You really want to know what happened?
Jessie: Yeah, we do.
Meowth: Yeah.
Josh: (taking a deep breath) Ok. I'll tell you. on one condition.
Meowth: What condition would that be?
Josh: That you promise that you'll believe what I'm saying is the truth and that you won't act like I'm making the whole thing up!
Jessie, James, Meowth: Deal!
Josh: Ok. Here's the whole story.
(the screen slowly dissolves, and comes back together not in the truck, but in a study where a silver-haired man is eagerly getting a big briefcase packed while he's surrounded by boxes)
Josh: (V.O.) It was 6 years ago in hollywood.. My dad had just been given a promotion in a place called Viridian City, so him, my mom, and I were set to move up there. But little did any of us know that we'd never get the chance to move.
The silver-haired man finishes up packing the last box and stands up in triumph
SHM: There, finished! All set to go tomorrow!
The man walks into a kitchen where a brown-haired woman and a raven-haired boy are sitting at a table sipping lemonade
BHW: Are we all set, Steven dear?
Steven: Sure are, Allison honey! Just got the last box packed and we're all set!
Allison: Oh. this'll be so exciting, you're actually getting to be a gym leader after all these years. Your dream is coming true at last!
RHB: (without enthusiasm) Yeah.
Steven: What's wrong, Josh?
It's at this point that it becomes clear that the family in the flashback is Josh's family
Josh: I just have this feeling like something's gonna happen that'll stop us from leaving Hollywood.
Steven: You're just nervous. Nothing is gonna happen!
Josh: But something always does!!! Like the day before the Pokemon League tournament to which we had front row seats!
Allison: (irritated) For the last time, it was not your father's fault that he threw his back out training with his Machoke! Which reminds me.. (turning to Steven) Are the pokemon all up at the new gym?
Steven: (proudly) Yep, just sent the last one last night! Nurse Joy's taking of them for me until we get up there!
Josh sighs resignedly and gets up from table
Josh: I just know something bad is going to happen! I just know it!
As Josh walks out of the room, Steven and Allison look at their son and just shrug off his moody demeanor as we skip towards that night in the bedroom of an asleep Allison and Josh Taylor and Josh's V.O. resumes
Josh: (V.O.) Convinced that I was just nervous, my parents let me camp out in their room that night. Dad stayed up to get some last minute packing done. What happened next. I had prayed I'd never have happen..
As Allison and Josh slumber, we pan over to the living room where we see Steven sitting on the floor, thinking about what his son said earlier
Steven: What could he possibly mean by something bad is gonna happen before the move? He's always saying that! What does it mean?
Suddenly the glass window behind him breaks and as he turns around he sees the barrel of a shotgun pointed at his face and as the gun is discharged into Steven's skull a voice coldly says
Voice: It means you should have listened to your kid!
As the holder of the gun steps through the broken window, we see that it's Harris Sythe standing over the body of Steven Taylor as Allison and Josh rush into the living room scared
Allison: What was that awf.. (seeing her husband's body) (shrieking) OH GOD STEVEN!!!!!
Josh: (shell-shocked) What the fuck did you do?!?
Harris: The same thing I'm about to do to you.
But as he fires the gun at Josh, Allison dives in front of him, taking the bullet to the chest as Josh just stares in horror as what he's just witnessed
Josh: (grief-stricken) No! No! Mom, don't leave me!!!!
Harris: If you want to stay alive, (puts the barrel of the shotgun against Josh's forehead) you'll keep your trap shut and follow me!
Josh: (V.O.) Having no choice, I had to follow Harris back to Ripper hall. The next 10 days after that were nothing but pure hell!
As a helpless Josh Taylor is led by Harris out of the house, the screen dissolves and reforms back into the interior of the truck carrying Team Rocket who is speechless
Josh: After Meowth eventually freed me from Harris's clutches, I knew that I'd never be mentally able to care for my father's pokemon, so I let Nurse Joy keep them. I opted to spend the rest of my days alone instead of living with the only other living relative that the police could find of my family. The gym was torn down and a monument to my dad was put in its place. My parents were buried the day before I was freed from that madman's grasp..
Josh pauses to let a tear slowly run down his face
Josh: ..and that's what happened.
James: Oh.. Oh my.
Jessie: To think, I always though MY mom's death was traumatic!
Meowth: But why didn't you want to stay with a relative instead of being all alone.
Josh: Because the only other relative that they found was the most hated, most sadistic member of my family tree..
James: Who was it?!?
What Josh says next is a total shock to Jessie, James, and Meowth
Josh: My cousin, Jessibelle Coudfeld.
At the mention of the name, James screams and stares at Josh in terror
James: YOU MEAN JESSIBELLE'S YOUR COUSIN?!?
Josh: It unfortunately seems like you've met her too?
James: Met her?? MY PARENTS WANTED ME TO MARRY THAT SADISTIC CUNT!!!
Jessie: (shocked) James!!!
Josh: No, that's pretty much what I think of her too. Always saying (in a mock-southern tone) "Be proper" "That's not the right way to do it" "You'll be a gentleman and like it!!!" (shudders) She's almost as bad as Harris!
Jessie: Yeah.. But James was only engaged to her. You're her relative!!!
Josh: (softly) Don't remind me.. (sighs as he looks out the window and sees the infamous HOLLYWOOD sign) Ripper Hall dead ahead!
The truck pulls up in front of the run-down house from earlier and Meowth and Josh get out
Josh: (to Jessie and James) Listen, if we're not back in 15 minutes, (hands his cell phone over to James) call the cops!
James: Ok..
Meowth: Don't worry, we'll be back soon with Mondo. (silently) I hope.
As Josh and Meowth head inside the hall, Jessie and James look back at them in worry
Jessie: I just want to get out of this neighborhood! It's just screaming "murder"!
James: Don't worry, we'll be out so.
Suddenly, James stops speaking and grasps the back of his neck
Jessie: (frightened) James???
James slowly falls unconscious into the back seat, where Jessie finds a small dart in his neck
Jessie: (scared) James, what happened???
A cold, southern-accented voice answers..
Voice: The same thing that's gonna happen to you, you improper little whore!
Jessie, knowing full well who that voice belongs to, turns around in terror and the last thing she sees before getting shot with another tranquilizer dart is the face of Jessibelle Coudfeld
Jessie: (straining) Why. did you do this..
Jessie collapses next to James as Jessibelle stands next to the shattered truck window
Jessibelle: Because with Harris's help, I'm finally gonna make James my husband!
Jessibelle starts to laugh a sick, twisted laugh as we see Jessie and James both lying motionless in the truck's backseat
TO BE CONTINUED