A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gameboy

Part Eight!

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Jessie and James, still in the same clearing they were in in part seven, are breaking camp and preparing to head back to the cabin. Mostly, this consisted of packing their Gameboys in bubblewrap (Meowth kept pooping the bubbles, so they had to get more) and tossing the empty battery packs into a magical recycling can.

"James, do you hear something?" Jessie asked casually, double-checking that no slight jostle on the long (or relatively short) journey home would damage her hair-colored hand-held unit.

"Does it sound sort of like a whining, outraged, threatening kind of sound?"

"Yeah."

"Nope, didn't hear a thing."

"Neither did I."

Meowth looked at the humans in disgust.

"And I have to put up with them," he muttered. "Idiots."

Jessie and James both turn to look menacingly at Meowth.

"What did you say?" Jessie asked sweetly, mallet in hand.

James had pulled out the official Team Rocket Collapsible Bazooka they bought at Celeadon City.

"Uh..." Meowth sweatdropped. "How about canceling those last 500 games or so you each owe me?"

A quick conference on the part of the humanoids.

"We accept," announced James.

"And we want it in writing," added Jessie.

Meowth sighed.

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Team Rocket continues on their way home... Meowth trudging far behind (six steps or so) the human pair in a futile attempt recalculate battles owed him (no longer very many) without the distraction of Jessie and James' inane prattle.

"Jessie, do you hear something?"

"Did we already have this conversation?"

"I think we did."

"Do you suppose we're hearing things?"

"Could be."

"Is it getting louder to you?"

"Yep."

"Isn't this where we dug the hole yesterday?"

"I think it is."

"Is that Ash down at the bottom?"

"And looking utterly pathetic, even moreso than usual?"

"I think it is."

Team Rocket looks at each other. Silence.

"WHOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"

They begin to dance, frolic, jump up and down, and generally perform feats of amazing acrobatic daring.

Meowth, his mind full of calculations, blundered right into a tap-dancing Jessie. Jessie, instead of whacking Meowth as she might normally have done, she picked up her furry cohort and tossed him delightedly in the air.

"We did it! We did it! The hole worked! It worked!"

Merriment continued to ensue for the next three days.

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What will Team Rocket do with Ash? Didn't they get hungry during the three days of merriment? Will they ever get to Cerulean City? Tune in next time for Part Nine, where you'll hear Ash say "Huh?"

To be continued...