Rebirth of Fate
Episode 2:
Dawn of the Heroes
"Tenchi! TENNNCHIIII!"
"I'm getting up, grandpa," said a groggy Tenchi. After stretching himself, he hopped out of bed and shuffled in the bathroom. After his usual morning routine in the bathroom, he opened the door to his room, only to be greeted out of nowhere by Ryoko.
"Good morning, Tenchi," said Ryoko, hugging Tenchi from behind. Naturally, he didn't like this, so he tried his best to get away without upsetting Ryoko.
"Get offa me!" Tenchi whined, struggling to get away, a sweat drop having formed on his face.
"Come on, Tenchi! Why don't you ever want to admit our profound love for each other?"
"HEY!" a Juraian princess stood at the door.
"Ayeka, leave us alone! Can't you see that we are expressing our love for each other?"
"Are not!" Tenchi argued, the sweat drop growing bigger on his head.
Ayeka's head was gaining steam. "YOU LAY OFF OF TENCHI!!" she thundered.
Tenchi scooted by as Ryoko and Ayeka got into yet another of their monumental fights. As he traveled downstairs, he was greeted by a much kinder Sasami. "Hey, Tenchi!" she happily piped.
"Hey, Sasami! What does Grandpa want?"
"Silly Tenchi," Sasami said in her cutest voice. "Don't you remember? You were supposed to go with Washu to meet a Professor Oak today!"
"OH YEAH!" Tenchi suddenly remembered in excitement. The greeting sent from this Oak guy by way of Washu was a great way for him to do 4 things:
1. Get a break from the girls.
2. Travel the world.
3. Get some action
And 4. Find out what the heck "pokémon" are and why everyone outside his area wants and has one.
And after busting fools like Kagato and Yuzuha, this Team Rocket should be a joke.
But Tenchi's parade was soon rained on as Ayeka and Ryoko crashed down the stairs and attacked Tenchi. "Whaddya mean you going to Professor Oak's place!" an outraged Ryoko cried.
"You can't do this to us, Tenchi!" Ayeka whined.
"What do you mean us? Tenchi's destined for me!"
"IS NOT!! We're destined to be married!"
"HA! He wouldn't marry you if you were the last person on earth with a face lift!"
"OOOH, you little-" Ryoko and Ayeka began battle number two.
"Relax, I'll only be gone all morning!" Tenchi rushed with a sweat drop on his head. "Well, I'll be in Washu's. See ya later!" Tenchi dashed in the door, leaving the duo to argue amongst themselves.
****
"Keeli! Wake up, sleepy head! Mom's already gone to work." A young voice gibbered. Keeli stirred awake, still groggy. "Hurry up, old fool! You're supposed to catch the bus to Oak's today!"
"Leeme alone, Christen," Keeli mumbled. She buried her head in the covers. Unfortunately, after a few seconds, a psychic power blasted Keeli off the bed, causing her to crash in a mass of covers on the floor. She hated when her sister resorted to this. She decided to boss her sister around after breakfast; that was easy, because she too had psychic powers.
Hers, however, was mostly physical, the ability to control and hit things; on the contrary, her sister's was more of the ability to read the past, future, and drift through time. She also trained through karate, making an effectively annoying and deadly mix of psychic and fighting powers. She could only double kick her sister when her mind drifted off, otherwise Christen would see it coming and block it with a barrier. He could only use physical powers when she was especially upset or angry, so Keeli always had the upper hand.
Anyway, Keeli pulled off her normal routine in the bathroom, then went to the kitchen to see what her sister was cooking.
"Your favorite!" she said happily. "Scrambled eggs, grits, and sausage!" Keeli's mouth began watering. "I see that!" her sister snapped, not even looking at Keeli. "You just hold your horses!"
"Aw, come on! Can't you fix your plate any faster? I GOTTA GO! AND I'M HUNGRY!"
Christen sat down at the table. "Alright, NOW you can eat." Keeli began gobbling down her food like a starving Murkrow. Christen ate slower, but as greedily.
A Hitmonchan strolled into the room, looking very agitated. As soon as it saw Keeli it focused for a moment, then threw some psychic punches. Keeli barely noticed. "My, aren't we moody. Sorry, no time for practice this morning! You'll have to wait 'til this evening." Hitmonchan grumbled. "While you're at it, wake up that lazy Arbok!"
"Keeli! You've got to get out of here! You've only got 10 MINUTES!!!"
"EEEK!" Keeli grabbed her bag. "Well, I'm outta here! Bye, and don't let anyone shady in, either!"
"'Kay bye! I'M NOT STUPID!!!"
"Yeah, you wish." At that, Keeli teleported outside and dashed to the bus stop.
****
"TAZ!! WAKE YOUR LAZY BUTT UP!!"
"But ma, it's ONLY 7:00!! You'd think that I know Prof. Oak is no early bird, even with high sunlight!!"
"Taz..."
"Oh, all right." Taz hopped out of bed and rubbed what little sleep out of his eyes. Though he wouldn't admit it to his arrogant mom, he couldn't sleep all night, and to top that, he had been awake for the last hour. His big mission was to get a Bulbasaur before anyone else, particularly Rob did.
Rob was an old friend he surprisingly met in the detention center his mom kicked him in a while ago. They had plenty of differences. Taz was simply a kleptomaniac. Rob worked for TR. Rob was short and wire thin. Taz was slightly stockier and two notches taller. Taz was white and Rob black. But they had three things in common that brought them together:
1. They had much of the same personality.
2. They of course like pokémon
3. Their newfound hate of Team Rocket.
Their chance to bomb TR came when Prof. Oak had come to that center one day, asking for former TR members willing to risk their lives to divulge info about their whereabouts, plans, etc.. Taz and Rob of course agreed, and Prof. Oak set some sort of deal with Rob, though he's not sure what. Ah, who gives a crap, Taz had thought.
Now Taz was racing to get on all his clothes and get organized. He dashed to the kitchen and wolfed down his readymade serving of pancakes, surprising his mom and dad in the process.
"Since when did you become Houndour of the Cuisine?" his father pondered.
"Since now," Taz continued as he guzzled down his orange juice.
"We're in a big rush to get to that Scyther, aren't we?" his mom sarcastically beckoned.
"Yes," Taz retorted. "Mom, where's my pokégear?"
"Upstairs on your bed, honey,"
Taz, of course, was already upstairs and putting it on. He got out his foldable bike and cometed back downstairs. "Bye mom! Bye dad!" he pecked both parents on their shine foreheads. "I'll call you!" he burst outside as if he were being released from a cage to fly free. It was a 30-minute bike ride to Oak's, and he wasn't wasting time.
****
"Now Rob, don't get so uptight. The other three will be here soon." Professor Oak counseled. He looked at Rob pacing about in the secret genetics room. Mewtwo and Beedrill were in tubes, being fed power as they spoke. Unfortunately, during the time he has been caught by Rob, Mewtwo gained a rather caustic sense of humor.
"Don't be such a worrywart!" Mewtwo mocked Rob in his tube. Beedrill snickered.
"Hey, SHUT UP, can-o'-genetic-monkeys!" Rob retorted, pointing a quivering sword at them. He sighed. "It's just that I'm nervous about Taz and this Tenchi guy. Taz may have changed since I last saw him. How? And there's that girl..."
"I bet you have a MARRIAGE PROPOSAL to Keeli, don't you?!" Mewtwo crowed. Beedrill and Prof. Oak doubled up in laughter and a sweat drop formed on Rob's face. "I could just see it now:" Mewtwo spaced his hands as if he were having a vision, and one appeared. Like a silent film, the events in Mewtwo's mind played out clearly. Keeli was standing on a rock overlooking the sea, her almost albino blond hair whipping her face against the wind. A nervous Rob entered the scene.
"Oh Keeli," Mewtwo mocked the silent speaking Rob in the sappiest voice possible. "will you marry me?" Professor Oak and Beedrill fell over laughing uncontrollably.
Rob couldn't take it anymore. He punted Oak out of the way and pressed a small, red button. Out of nowhere, a T.V. screen popped in front of Mewtwo. When it was turned on, Mewtwo screeched in horror.
It was Barney, and Barney was wearing the darkness insignia on his head.
It was Rob who was now laughing, but just then, the doorbell rang. "Our first guest!" he cried excitedly. As Oak gathered his bearings, Rob dashed to the front door. He opened it e v e r s o s l o w l y to build suspense, but even he was caught by surprise when he saw who was on the other side.
It was Keeli.
****
Keeli had so far had a stressful trip. She was nearly late and almost left behind from the bus. But that was only the beginning. A most shady character had chosen to sit next to her. Though she seemed kind on the outside from her wire-thin body, dark blond hair, and delicate features, she sensed pure, cold evil coming from this girl. All through the trip, her skin seemed to be too tight for her body due to sheer anxiety. What was odd about this girl though, is that she seemed to be... controlled. Nevertheless, Keeli kept calm. When she was about to leave the bus, the girl gave her an evil glare and began maliciously chucking. For a split second, Keeli had lost control of her body in mid-step, and almost crashed. She righted herself at the last minute and managed to catch herself, despite every other male on the bus tried to dash to her aid. She waved them off with a nervous thanks and left.
All through the walk to Professor Oak, she had pondered about if she had made the right choice to offer to help stop Team Rocket. Professor Oak had asked for her help due to the fact of her famous deadly blend of psychic and fighting power, and had having stopped TR on numerous unaided accounts before. She had reluctantly agreed.
She now doubted if this was the way to go. After that horrible fight with Rob, she wasn't sure if he had the guts to take on full TR generals far more twisted that he. And that girl...
But there was no turning back. She promised she would come, and she was NOT one to break promises. She trudged to the door and rung the doorbell. To her horror, someone else had answered the door.
And that someone else was Rob.
"Ah, so it's you," Rob nodded solemnly. Keeli was thunderstruck. However, she was suddenly aware of something in Rob she had never seen before: kindness. Rob seemed to have read her mind. "I've changed since you last saw me. But I ain't one to switch personalities suddenly though, so I'll say this: NO, I didn't do anything to Professor Oak, he came to me. And no matter what a certain psychic may say to you-"
"-I'm not gonna propose to you." Keeli finished, with a dark smile. Rob became flustered.
"IN!" he boomed. He pointed to a big door in the back. Keeli trotted in, aware that Rob stuck out his tongue at her behind her back, so she psychically backslapped him. She sensed contorted fury.
****
"Washu, are you sure this thing 'll work?" Tenchi questioned looking at Washu's teleportation machine.
"Positive!" she cried. "Now get in, already!" she flattened Tenchi in the machine. "We've got only five minutes, and Ryoko will burst through and kick our butts if we don't hurry."
Washu began typing on her computer. In seconds, Tenchi could hear futuristic sounds radiate from outside. In about 35 seconds, the machine had stopped. "We're here!!" she chimed, as a small bump came from the back of the machine.
Tenchi peered outside. In front of them stood a grand observatory looking building. Wondering what was inside, Tenchi spaced out, until Washu interrupted his train of thought. "Tenchi, when we landed here, did you hear something?"
"No..."
"I'll go check,"
In about 3 seconds, Tenchi heard a scream from Washu. "WHA?" he panicked for a split second before rushing outside to see what was the matter.
Washu showed panic and fury, pointing a quivering finger at what looked like a squashed bug for a common boy. "AAAHHHH!!! THIS IDIOT CRASHED INTO MY BEAUTIFUL MACHINE!!!! GET RID OF HIM!!"
Tenchi rolled his eyes to the heaven as a sweat drop formed on his face. He peeled off the boy's sorry carcass from Washu's machine and shook it to revive him.
"Urgh. Giant metal thing comes out of nowhere," moaned the kid. "Must...get... Scyther before... Rob does..." he shook his head and fully recovered. "Who're you?"
"Uhhh... I'm Tenchi Masaki and this is my friend Washu, inventor of the giant metal thing I might add." Tenchi rubbed his neck.
Washu stomped over to Taz. "NOBODY... MESSES... WITH... MY... MACHINES!!!"
"Not my fault a giant metal thing comes out of nowhere, invented by a pikachu reject, I might add," Taz snapped back.
Tenchi was powerless to do anything about the argument. Washu was gaining steam. "WHY YOU LITTLE.."
"HEY!! Taz?" Rob had peered outside, but he only saw Tenchi. Tenchi waved, and Rob responded with a silent "Yo, Tenchi." Rob took to the heated argument. "Taz! What a shame on you! You're already pickin' a fight with one of our guests!"
"Aw, Rob! You always take the other guy's side!" Taz and Rob pulled off the handshake/pat-on-the-back greeting. Tenchi turned to face everyone.
"Do ya even know who you're messing with?" Rob continued. "Say hello to Washu, THE most brilliant scientist on the universe."
Taz was speechless. Washu lost steam and grinned widely.
"HEY!!!" Professor Oak called, punting open the door, followed by a rather excited Keeli. "Don't keep our guests waiting."
"Yea, I WANNA GET MY POKÉMON!!" Keeli bellowed.
"Why KEELI," Taz sneered. "Always the Roman psychic to get her way, huh?"
"OH SHUT UP!"
"No need for fools in this mission, kids." Professor Oak chided. "C'mon. Let's go inside." At that, he led the group to his secret genetics lab room, where rare pokémon were studied and fed power from Oak's machine. Tenchi glanced at a rather fearsome looking cat creature and an equally intimidating giant bug. The cat creature returned Tenchi's glance.
"Greetings," it spoke using psychic powers. "I am Mewtwo, one of the greatest pokémon to walk the planet. You must be Tenchi."
"Uhhh..." Tenchi turned to Washu and company. "Are those... pokémon?"
"Yep!" Washu cried. "Don't be afraid, though, you won't see those friggin' powerful types often."
"You need to lay off scaring the guests," Rob snapped at Mewtwo.
"This coming from Mr. Marriage Proposal," Mewtwo was clearly enjoying harassing Rob.
"Now," Professor Oak interrupted Mewtwo and Rob's bickering. "I have called the four of you (and Little Washu) to help me defeat Team Rocket. For those of you who don't know," he glanced at Tenchi. "TR is an organized crime business that uses pokémon and vile trickery.
"They have grown stronger since I have last saw them. I fear that they will soon wreak havoc on the planet and disharmonize people and pokémon. Many of you have had a dark past with TR," he turned to Rob and Keeli ("What a happy couple," Mewtwo crowed.), "or you have been chosen for your expertise in fighting, knowledge, or pokémon.
"Either way, you must flaunt your powers and believe in yourself to defeat this wicked gang of criminals. The pokémon you choose will play a vital role in the downfall of TR. That's why I have here..." Professor Oak pulled a curtain, revealing a giant cache of pokéballs and a Farfetch'd and a Meowth seemingly standing guard. "... a choice of pokémon. You can release them to see who's inside. I'm offering a special of letting you each choose two. Choose wisely..."
"WHERE'S SCYTHER?" Taz bellowed. He began frantically releasing all the pokémon at once. The crowd appeared as this:
1. Squirtle
2. Charmander
3. Bulbasaur
4. Totodile
5. Chikorita
6. Cyndaquil
7. Pikachu
8. Abra
9. Scyther
10. Onix
"Oh ho! There you are!" Taz put Scyther in its poké ball and pocketed it.
Tenchi however, was horrified at the sight of the towering Onix as it peered through the crowd of equally confused pokémon. However, when Onix spotted Tenchi, it was a whole different story, as it lunged towards Tenchi and "hugged" him with its coils.
"OCK..." Tenchi cried through suffocation.
"Congratulations, Tenchi!" Washu said. "This pokémon likes you! I suggest you pocket that one!"
"I'm glad it likes me too, but could it be considerate and give me back my oxygen?" Tenchi choked.
Washu put Onix back it its poké ball.
Abra and Pikachu were immediately drawn to Keeli. She chuckled as both pokémon playfully attacked her and licked her face.
Rob wasn't so lucky. After having Beedrill all of his life, Rob couldn't decide which pokémon to take Beedrill and Mewtwo's place. But that would change shortly.
"Hey!! We're free!" cried a voice. Rob turned to see that it was Meowth. It was standing next to the two fire pokémon and Farfetch'd.
"THAT MEOWTH SPEAKS ENGLISH??!!" Rob yelled, surprised.
"There's more than one Meowth that can speak English, you know..." it said.
"Ah, cool!" Tenchi cried, dashing over next to Rob. "That pokémon is on fire!" he was pointing to Meowth.
It took about 5 seconds for Meowth to realize he was on fire. When he finally did, he screeched in great surprise: "AUGH, $#*+!!!!" he then suddenly stopped panicking and focused on himself as if he had psychic power. Instantly the fire froze and fell off.
"I'M TAKING MEOWTH!!!" Rob cried, and as a surprise attack, he added, "and the pokémon who set him on fire."
"Exactly WHY??" all the humans in the room turned to Rob.
"For good luck. It is said that 2 pokémon will bring good tidings to whoever catches a pair that accidentally hurts each other."
"Wha wha?" Taz asked.
"Ay, screw it."
Meowth was purely stunned. Tears of happiness dangled from his face. "I never imagined I would have a trainer at last!" it cried. The "unlucky" fire pokémon, Cyndaquil, was slowly coming from a corner after having his bum frozen by the ice. "Cyndaquil! We're goin' home! We have a trainer!" It took a while for the fire mouse to realize the good news. When it did, it cried shrilly in happiness.
Rob called his two new pokémon into his pokéballs. Tenchi decided to take Charmander as pokémon number 2.
"Everyone has selected?" Professor Oak questioned.
Everyone nodded.
"Good! Now everyone, you can't expect your pokémon to be so victorious versus TR all the time, so-"
"WE NEED TRAINING!!!" Taz cried out.
"I'm training at home," Tenchi said. "I have a shrine for training."
"Me too," Keeli added.
"I've got an even better idea," Rob turned to the other soon-to-be-heroes. "KEELI! I'll take you on!"
"TENCHI!!! I challenge you," Taz thundered.
Keeli and Tenchi accepted their challenges.
"HEY WAIT!" Professor Oak cried. "You'll need this to see your pokémon's moves." Oak handed everyone their pokégear.
Keeli and Rob started their match first.
"Abra, go," Keeli summoned her Abra by means of psychic power.
"MEOWTH, GO!!!" Rob thundered. Meowth leapt from behind him.
Keeli had no use for her pokédex. "Abra, Psyshock."
Psyshock hits and paralyzes Meowth.
Rob checked his pokédex after referring to Keeli as a cheater. "Move 1," the pokédex droned. "Aura shell. Recovres and prevents status effects for a short time and recovers a small amount of HP."
Rob boomed. "Meowth, Aura Shell!"
Meowth summoned ice powers like before and fully recovered.
Meowth followed up with an Ice Beam and hits Abra, but doesn't do much to it. Meowth grows furious and begins to throw powerful swipes from his claws, but Abra teleports away each time.
The pokédex explains: "Comet Claw, a move similar to Fury Cutter, and of the same type as well."
Meowth eventually becomes so angry from his lack of accuracy he aims his claw at a reappearing Abra. To everyone's surprise, a spray of nails erupt from Meowth's claws and wipe out Keeli's Abra.
"Unbelievable!" Washu cried.
"Compared to what we get in trouble with, I don't find this surprising," Tenchi said in a bored tone.
The pokédex piped in: "When some pokémon grow furious, they use moves that they could otherwise not use in normal situations. This is called a limit break. The limit break just used is called Nail Gun."
Meowth's face stretched into a grin. "Yay! I WON!" he gives Rob a high five.
Keeli's head was now gaining steam. "It's not over yet. Pikachu, get him!" Pikachu jumped from behind its trainer and prepared for attack. Rob decided to switch pokémon.
"Meowth, come back!" Rob called Meowth back into its pokéball. "Cyndaquil! Fry Pikachu!" Cyndaquil jumps up and uses a strange fire move explained as this:
"Arschizm," the pokédex droned as usual. "A fire/ground attack that can burn the foe, and can cut down trees."
Pikachu, unfortunately, is faster and jumps in the air and performs a Psyshock. Rob knew that psychics can teach their pokémon practically anything, so this came as no surprise. But what did surprise Rob is that Pikachu managed to almost blow Cyndaquil away! Cyndaquil steadies itself and uses Smokescreen. Pikachu becomes confused, and Cyndaquil takes out Pikachu with one well placed tackle in the stomach.
"AUGH NO!!" Keeli shrunk down crying. "I've... been... beaten..."
"Cyndaquil! You beat him!" Rob cried happily. A battle weary Cyndaquil welcomes the embrace of Rob. But the reunion was broken quickly as Rob suddenly felt the sensation of being lifted-painfully.
"I couldn't... have lost! But I have beaten you in the past... I shall do so again!"
"HEY!!" Tenchi cried. He releases Onix. Onix binds Keeli, and her psychic grip on Rob is released. "Get a hold of yourself!"
"Ohhh... man," she shook herself. "What was I thinking?" Onix released its grip on her. "Rob... We'll settle this old grudge later, once and for all! But now is not the time..."
A little tense, Rob had taken out his sword and was ready to attack on impulse. "Suit yourself."
"Ah crap!" Washu looked on her watch. "We've got to get home, or we'll miss Sasami's cooking!"
"I guess I'll fight you later, Taz," Tenchi said. "Goodbye, and nice meeting you all! I'll see you later." At that, Tenchi and Washu dashed outside.
"I've got to get home. Mom 'll be complaining about the big mess Christen and Arbok always make." Keeli waved goodbye to everyone and gave Rob a sharp glare. Rob returned it. "Bye," she teleported away.
"Why do psychics still ride the bus?" Taz asked.
"She ain't learned how to teleport long distance. And how in the heck did you know she rode a bus, if she does?"
"Lucky guess."
"Rob! Taz!" Oak cried. "I trust since you two are the more adventurous ones, you'll head to Pewter City for a badge?"
"H**LYEAH!!" The two cried.
"Better get going, it's a 6 hour's journey by bike from here."
"Taz, you know what this means, don't you?" Rob asked.
"Yeah! We better start training! Brock's sure to be tough!!" Taz responded.
"Good luck marrying Keeli!!" Mewtwo cried, mimicking Rob.
"OH SHUT UP!!!!"
Episode 2:
Dawn of the Heroes
"Tenchi! TENNNCHIIII!"
"I'm getting up, grandpa," said a groggy Tenchi. After stretching himself, he hopped out of bed and shuffled in the bathroom. After his usual morning routine in the bathroom, he opened the door to his room, only to be greeted out of nowhere by Ryoko.
"Good morning, Tenchi," said Ryoko, hugging Tenchi from behind. Naturally, he didn't like this, so he tried his best to get away without upsetting Ryoko.
"Get offa me!" Tenchi whined, struggling to get away, a sweat drop having formed on his face.
"Come on, Tenchi! Why don't you ever want to admit our profound love for each other?"
"HEY!" a Juraian princess stood at the door.
"Ayeka, leave us alone! Can't you see that we are expressing our love for each other?"
"Are not!" Tenchi argued, the sweat drop growing bigger on his head.
Ayeka's head was gaining steam. "YOU LAY OFF OF TENCHI!!" she thundered.
Tenchi scooted by as Ryoko and Ayeka got into yet another of their monumental fights. As he traveled downstairs, he was greeted by a much kinder Sasami. "Hey, Tenchi!" she happily piped.
"Hey, Sasami! What does Grandpa want?"
"Silly Tenchi," Sasami said in her cutest voice. "Don't you remember? You were supposed to go with Washu to meet a Professor Oak today!"
"OH YEAH!" Tenchi suddenly remembered in excitement. The greeting sent from this Oak guy by way of Washu was a great way for him to do 4 things:
1. Get a break from the girls.
2. Travel the world.
3. Get some action
And 4. Find out what the heck "pokémon" are and why everyone outside his area wants and has one.
And after busting fools like Kagato and Yuzuha, this Team Rocket should be a joke.
But Tenchi's parade was soon rained on as Ayeka and Ryoko crashed down the stairs and attacked Tenchi. "Whaddya mean you going to Professor Oak's place!" an outraged Ryoko cried.
"You can't do this to us, Tenchi!" Ayeka whined.
"What do you mean us? Tenchi's destined for me!"
"IS NOT!! We're destined to be married!"
"HA! He wouldn't marry you if you were the last person on earth with a face lift!"
"OOOH, you little-" Ryoko and Ayeka began battle number two.
"Relax, I'll only be gone all morning!" Tenchi rushed with a sweat drop on his head. "Well, I'll be in Washu's. See ya later!" Tenchi dashed in the door, leaving the duo to argue amongst themselves.
****
"Keeli! Wake up, sleepy head! Mom's already gone to work." A young voice gibbered. Keeli stirred awake, still groggy. "Hurry up, old fool! You're supposed to catch the bus to Oak's today!"
"Leeme alone, Christen," Keeli mumbled. She buried her head in the covers. Unfortunately, after a few seconds, a psychic power blasted Keeli off the bed, causing her to crash in a mass of covers on the floor. She hated when her sister resorted to this. She decided to boss her sister around after breakfast; that was easy, because she too had psychic powers.
Hers, however, was mostly physical, the ability to control and hit things; on the contrary, her sister's was more of the ability to read the past, future, and drift through time. She also trained through karate, making an effectively annoying and deadly mix of psychic and fighting powers. She could only double kick her sister when her mind drifted off, otherwise Christen would see it coming and block it with a barrier. He could only use physical powers when she was especially upset or angry, so Keeli always had the upper hand.
Anyway, Keeli pulled off her normal routine in the bathroom, then went to the kitchen to see what her sister was cooking.
"Your favorite!" she said happily. "Scrambled eggs, grits, and sausage!" Keeli's mouth began watering. "I see that!" her sister snapped, not even looking at Keeli. "You just hold your horses!"
"Aw, come on! Can't you fix your plate any faster? I GOTTA GO! AND I'M HUNGRY!"
Christen sat down at the table. "Alright, NOW you can eat." Keeli began gobbling down her food like a starving Murkrow. Christen ate slower, but as greedily.
A Hitmonchan strolled into the room, looking very agitated. As soon as it saw Keeli it focused for a moment, then threw some psychic punches. Keeli barely noticed. "My, aren't we moody. Sorry, no time for practice this morning! You'll have to wait 'til this evening." Hitmonchan grumbled. "While you're at it, wake up that lazy Arbok!"
"Keeli! You've got to get out of here! You've only got 10 MINUTES!!!"
"EEEK!" Keeli grabbed her bag. "Well, I'm outta here! Bye, and don't let anyone shady in, either!"
"'Kay bye! I'M NOT STUPID!!!"
"Yeah, you wish." At that, Keeli teleported outside and dashed to the bus stop.
****
"TAZ!! WAKE YOUR LAZY BUTT UP!!"
"But ma, it's ONLY 7:00!! You'd think that I know Prof. Oak is no early bird, even with high sunlight!!"
"Taz..."
"Oh, all right." Taz hopped out of bed and rubbed what little sleep out of his eyes. Though he wouldn't admit it to his arrogant mom, he couldn't sleep all night, and to top that, he had been awake for the last hour. His big mission was to get a Bulbasaur before anyone else, particularly Rob did.
Rob was an old friend he surprisingly met in the detention center his mom kicked him in a while ago. They had plenty of differences. Taz was simply a kleptomaniac. Rob worked for TR. Rob was short and wire thin. Taz was slightly stockier and two notches taller. Taz was white and Rob black. But they had three things in common that brought them together:
1. They had much of the same personality.
2. They of course like pokémon
3. Their newfound hate of Team Rocket.
Their chance to bomb TR came when Prof. Oak had come to that center one day, asking for former TR members willing to risk their lives to divulge info about their whereabouts, plans, etc.. Taz and Rob of course agreed, and Prof. Oak set some sort of deal with Rob, though he's not sure what. Ah, who gives a crap, Taz had thought.
Now Taz was racing to get on all his clothes and get organized. He dashed to the kitchen and wolfed down his readymade serving of pancakes, surprising his mom and dad in the process.
"Since when did you become Houndour of the Cuisine?" his father pondered.
"Since now," Taz continued as he guzzled down his orange juice.
"We're in a big rush to get to that Scyther, aren't we?" his mom sarcastically beckoned.
"Yes," Taz retorted. "Mom, where's my pokégear?"
"Upstairs on your bed, honey,"
Taz, of course, was already upstairs and putting it on. He got out his foldable bike and cometed back downstairs. "Bye mom! Bye dad!" he pecked both parents on their shine foreheads. "I'll call you!" he burst outside as if he were being released from a cage to fly free. It was a 30-minute bike ride to Oak's, and he wasn't wasting time.
****
"Now Rob, don't get so uptight. The other three will be here soon." Professor Oak counseled. He looked at Rob pacing about in the secret genetics room. Mewtwo and Beedrill were in tubes, being fed power as they spoke. Unfortunately, during the time he has been caught by Rob, Mewtwo gained a rather caustic sense of humor.
"Don't be such a worrywart!" Mewtwo mocked Rob in his tube. Beedrill snickered.
"Hey, SHUT UP, can-o'-genetic-monkeys!" Rob retorted, pointing a quivering sword at them. He sighed. "It's just that I'm nervous about Taz and this Tenchi guy. Taz may have changed since I last saw him. How? And there's that girl..."
"I bet you have a MARRIAGE PROPOSAL to Keeli, don't you?!" Mewtwo crowed. Beedrill and Prof. Oak doubled up in laughter and a sweat drop formed on Rob's face. "I could just see it now:" Mewtwo spaced his hands as if he were having a vision, and one appeared. Like a silent film, the events in Mewtwo's mind played out clearly. Keeli was standing on a rock overlooking the sea, her almost albino blond hair whipping her face against the wind. A nervous Rob entered the scene.
"Oh Keeli," Mewtwo mocked the silent speaking Rob in the sappiest voice possible. "will you marry me?" Professor Oak and Beedrill fell over laughing uncontrollably.
Rob couldn't take it anymore. He punted Oak out of the way and pressed a small, red button. Out of nowhere, a T.V. screen popped in front of Mewtwo. When it was turned on, Mewtwo screeched in horror.
It was Barney, and Barney was wearing the darkness insignia on his head.
It was Rob who was now laughing, but just then, the doorbell rang. "Our first guest!" he cried excitedly. As Oak gathered his bearings, Rob dashed to the front door. He opened it e v e r s o s l o w l y to build suspense, but even he was caught by surprise when he saw who was on the other side.
It was Keeli.
****
Keeli had so far had a stressful trip. She was nearly late and almost left behind from the bus. But that was only the beginning. A most shady character had chosen to sit next to her. Though she seemed kind on the outside from her wire-thin body, dark blond hair, and delicate features, she sensed pure, cold evil coming from this girl. All through the trip, her skin seemed to be too tight for her body due to sheer anxiety. What was odd about this girl though, is that she seemed to be... controlled. Nevertheless, Keeli kept calm. When she was about to leave the bus, the girl gave her an evil glare and began maliciously chucking. For a split second, Keeli had lost control of her body in mid-step, and almost crashed. She righted herself at the last minute and managed to catch herself, despite every other male on the bus tried to dash to her aid. She waved them off with a nervous thanks and left.
All through the walk to Professor Oak, she had pondered about if she had made the right choice to offer to help stop Team Rocket. Professor Oak had asked for her help due to the fact of her famous deadly blend of psychic and fighting power, and had having stopped TR on numerous unaided accounts before. She had reluctantly agreed.
She now doubted if this was the way to go. After that horrible fight with Rob, she wasn't sure if he had the guts to take on full TR generals far more twisted that he. And that girl...
But there was no turning back. She promised she would come, and she was NOT one to break promises. She trudged to the door and rung the doorbell. To her horror, someone else had answered the door.
And that someone else was Rob.
"Ah, so it's you," Rob nodded solemnly. Keeli was thunderstruck. However, she was suddenly aware of something in Rob she had never seen before: kindness. Rob seemed to have read her mind. "I've changed since you last saw me. But I ain't one to switch personalities suddenly though, so I'll say this: NO, I didn't do anything to Professor Oak, he came to me. And no matter what a certain psychic may say to you-"
"-I'm not gonna propose to you." Keeli finished, with a dark smile. Rob became flustered.
"IN!" he boomed. He pointed to a big door in the back. Keeli trotted in, aware that Rob stuck out his tongue at her behind her back, so she psychically backslapped him. She sensed contorted fury.
****
"Washu, are you sure this thing 'll work?" Tenchi questioned looking at Washu's teleportation machine.
"Positive!" she cried. "Now get in, already!" she flattened Tenchi in the machine. "We've got only five minutes, and Ryoko will burst through and kick our butts if we don't hurry."
Washu began typing on her computer. In seconds, Tenchi could hear futuristic sounds radiate from outside. In about 35 seconds, the machine had stopped. "We're here!!" she chimed, as a small bump came from the back of the machine.
Tenchi peered outside. In front of them stood a grand observatory looking building. Wondering what was inside, Tenchi spaced out, until Washu interrupted his train of thought. "Tenchi, when we landed here, did you hear something?"
"No..."
"I'll go check,"
In about 3 seconds, Tenchi heard a scream from Washu. "WHA?" he panicked for a split second before rushing outside to see what was the matter.
Washu showed panic and fury, pointing a quivering finger at what looked like a squashed bug for a common boy. "AAAHHHH!!! THIS IDIOT CRASHED INTO MY BEAUTIFUL MACHINE!!!! GET RID OF HIM!!"
Tenchi rolled his eyes to the heaven as a sweat drop formed on his face. He peeled off the boy's sorry carcass from Washu's machine and shook it to revive him.
"Urgh. Giant metal thing comes out of nowhere," moaned the kid. "Must...get... Scyther before... Rob does..." he shook his head and fully recovered. "Who're you?"
"Uhhh... I'm Tenchi Masaki and this is my friend Washu, inventor of the giant metal thing I might add." Tenchi rubbed his neck.
Washu stomped over to Taz. "NOBODY... MESSES... WITH... MY... MACHINES!!!"
"Not my fault a giant metal thing comes out of nowhere, invented by a pikachu reject, I might add," Taz snapped back.
Tenchi was powerless to do anything about the argument. Washu was gaining steam. "WHY YOU LITTLE.."
"HEY!! Taz?" Rob had peered outside, but he only saw Tenchi. Tenchi waved, and Rob responded with a silent "Yo, Tenchi." Rob took to the heated argument. "Taz! What a shame on you! You're already pickin' a fight with one of our guests!"
"Aw, Rob! You always take the other guy's side!" Taz and Rob pulled off the handshake/pat-on-the-back greeting. Tenchi turned to face everyone.
"Do ya even know who you're messing with?" Rob continued. "Say hello to Washu, THE most brilliant scientist on the universe."
Taz was speechless. Washu lost steam and grinned widely.
"HEY!!!" Professor Oak called, punting open the door, followed by a rather excited Keeli. "Don't keep our guests waiting."
"Yea, I WANNA GET MY POKÉMON!!" Keeli bellowed.
"Why KEELI," Taz sneered. "Always the Roman psychic to get her way, huh?"
"OH SHUT UP!"
"No need for fools in this mission, kids." Professor Oak chided. "C'mon. Let's go inside." At that, he led the group to his secret genetics lab room, where rare pokémon were studied and fed power from Oak's machine. Tenchi glanced at a rather fearsome looking cat creature and an equally intimidating giant bug. The cat creature returned Tenchi's glance.
"Greetings," it spoke using psychic powers. "I am Mewtwo, one of the greatest pokémon to walk the planet. You must be Tenchi."
"Uhhh..." Tenchi turned to Washu and company. "Are those... pokémon?"
"Yep!" Washu cried. "Don't be afraid, though, you won't see those friggin' powerful types often."
"You need to lay off scaring the guests," Rob snapped at Mewtwo.
"This coming from Mr. Marriage Proposal," Mewtwo was clearly enjoying harassing Rob.
"Now," Professor Oak interrupted Mewtwo and Rob's bickering. "I have called the four of you (and Little Washu) to help me defeat Team Rocket. For those of you who don't know," he glanced at Tenchi. "TR is an organized crime business that uses pokémon and vile trickery.
"They have grown stronger since I have last saw them. I fear that they will soon wreak havoc on the planet and disharmonize people and pokémon. Many of you have had a dark past with TR," he turned to Rob and Keeli ("What a happy couple," Mewtwo crowed.), "or you have been chosen for your expertise in fighting, knowledge, or pokémon.
"Either way, you must flaunt your powers and believe in yourself to defeat this wicked gang of criminals. The pokémon you choose will play a vital role in the downfall of TR. That's why I have here..." Professor Oak pulled a curtain, revealing a giant cache of pokéballs and a Farfetch'd and a Meowth seemingly standing guard. "... a choice of pokémon. You can release them to see who's inside. I'm offering a special of letting you each choose two. Choose wisely..."
"WHERE'S SCYTHER?" Taz bellowed. He began frantically releasing all the pokémon at once. The crowd appeared as this:
1. Squirtle
2. Charmander
3. Bulbasaur
4. Totodile
5. Chikorita
6. Cyndaquil
7. Pikachu
8. Abra
9. Scyther
10. Onix
"Oh ho! There you are!" Taz put Scyther in its poké ball and pocketed it.
Tenchi however, was horrified at the sight of the towering Onix as it peered through the crowd of equally confused pokémon. However, when Onix spotted Tenchi, it was a whole different story, as it lunged towards Tenchi and "hugged" him with its coils.
"OCK..." Tenchi cried through suffocation.
"Congratulations, Tenchi!" Washu said. "This pokémon likes you! I suggest you pocket that one!"
"I'm glad it likes me too, but could it be considerate and give me back my oxygen?" Tenchi choked.
Washu put Onix back it its poké ball.
Abra and Pikachu were immediately drawn to Keeli. She chuckled as both pokémon playfully attacked her and licked her face.
Rob wasn't so lucky. After having Beedrill all of his life, Rob couldn't decide which pokémon to take Beedrill and Mewtwo's place. But that would change shortly.
"Hey!! We're free!" cried a voice. Rob turned to see that it was Meowth. It was standing next to the two fire pokémon and Farfetch'd.
"THAT MEOWTH SPEAKS ENGLISH??!!" Rob yelled, surprised.
"There's more than one Meowth that can speak English, you know..." it said.
"Ah, cool!" Tenchi cried, dashing over next to Rob. "That pokémon is on fire!" he was pointing to Meowth.
It took about 5 seconds for Meowth to realize he was on fire. When he finally did, he screeched in great surprise: "AUGH, $#*+!!!!" he then suddenly stopped panicking and focused on himself as if he had psychic power. Instantly the fire froze and fell off.
"I'M TAKING MEOWTH!!!" Rob cried, and as a surprise attack, he added, "and the pokémon who set him on fire."
"Exactly WHY??" all the humans in the room turned to Rob.
"For good luck. It is said that 2 pokémon will bring good tidings to whoever catches a pair that accidentally hurts each other."
"Wha wha?" Taz asked.
"Ay, screw it."
Meowth was purely stunned. Tears of happiness dangled from his face. "I never imagined I would have a trainer at last!" it cried. The "unlucky" fire pokémon, Cyndaquil, was slowly coming from a corner after having his bum frozen by the ice. "Cyndaquil! We're goin' home! We have a trainer!" It took a while for the fire mouse to realize the good news. When it did, it cried shrilly in happiness.
Rob called his two new pokémon into his pokéballs. Tenchi decided to take Charmander as pokémon number 2.
"Everyone has selected?" Professor Oak questioned.
Everyone nodded.
"Good! Now everyone, you can't expect your pokémon to be so victorious versus TR all the time, so-"
"WE NEED TRAINING!!!" Taz cried out.
"I'm training at home," Tenchi said. "I have a shrine for training."
"Me too," Keeli added.
"I've got an even better idea," Rob turned to the other soon-to-be-heroes. "KEELI! I'll take you on!"
"TENCHI!!! I challenge you," Taz thundered.
Keeli and Tenchi accepted their challenges.
"HEY WAIT!" Professor Oak cried. "You'll need this to see your pokémon's moves." Oak handed everyone their pokégear.
Keeli and Rob started their match first.
"Abra, go," Keeli summoned her Abra by means of psychic power.
"MEOWTH, GO!!!" Rob thundered. Meowth leapt from behind him.
Keeli had no use for her pokédex. "Abra, Psyshock."
Psyshock hits and paralyzes Meowth.
Rob checked his pokédex after referring to Keeli as a cheater. "Move 1," the pokédex droned. "Aura shell. Recovres and prevents status effects for a short time and recovers a small amount of HP."
Rob boomed. "Meowth, Aura Shell!"
Meowth summoned ice powers like before and fully recovered.
Meowth followed up with an Ice Beam and hits Abra, but doesn't do much to it. Meowth grows furious and begins to throw powerful swipes from his claws, but Abra teleports away each time.
The pokédex explains: "Comet Claw, a move similar to Fury Cutter, and of the same type as well."
Meowth eventually becomes so angry from his lack of accuracy he aims his claw at a reappearing Abra. To everyone's surprise, a spray of nails erupt from Meowth's claws and wipe out Keeli's Abra.
"Unbelievable!" Washu cried.
"Compared to what we get in trouble with, I don't find this surprising," Tenchi said in a bored tone.
The pokédex piped in: "When some pokémon grow furious, they use moves that they could otherwise not use in normal situations. This is called a limit break. The limit break just used is called Nail Gun."
Meowth's face stretched into a grin. "Yay! I WON!" he gives Rob a high five.
Keeli's head was now gaining steam. "It's not over yet. Pikachu, get him!" Pikachu jumped from behind its trainer and prepared for attack. Rob decided to switch pokémon.
"Meowth, come back!" Rob called Meowth back into its pokéball. "Cyndaquil! Fry Pikachu!" Cyndaquil jumps up and uses a strange fire move explained as this:
"Arschizm," the pokédex droned as usual. "A fire/ground attack that can burn the foe, and can cut down trees."
Pikachu, unfortunately, is faster and jumps in the air and performs a Psyshock. Rob knew that psychics can teach their pokémon practically anything, so this came as no surprise. But what did surprise Rob is that Pikachu managed to almost blow Cyndaquil away! Cyndaquil steadies itself and uses Smokescreen. Pikachu becomes confused, and Cyndaquil takes out Pikachu with one well placed tackle in the stomach.
"AUGH NO!!" Keeli shrunk down crying. "I've... been... beaten..."
"Cyndaquil! You beat him!" Rob cried happily. A battle weary Cyndaquil welcomes the embrace of Rob. But the reunion was broken quickly as Rob suddenly felt the sensation of being lifted-painfully.
"I couldn't... have lost! But I have beaten you in the past... I shall do so again!"
"HEY!!" Tenchi cried. He releases Onix. Onix binds Keeli, and her psychic grip on Rob is released. "Get a hold of yourself!"
"Ohhh... man," she shook herself. "What was I thinking?" Onix released its grip on her. "Rob... We'll settle this old grudge later, once and for all! But now is not the time..."
A little tense, Rob had taken out his sword and was ready to attack on impulse. "Suit yourself."
"Ah crap!" Washu looked on her watch. "We've got to get home, or we'll miss Sasami's cooking!"
"I guess I'll fight you later, Taz," Tenchi said. "Goodbye, and nice meeting you all! I'll see you later." At that, Tenchi and Washu dashed outside.
"I've got to get home. Mom 'll be complaining about the big mess Christen and Arbok always make." Keeli waved goodbye to everyone and gave Rob a sharp glare. Rob returned it. "Bye," she teleported away.
"Why do psychics still ride the bus?" Taz asked.
"She ain't learned how to teleport long distance. And how in the heck did you know she rode a bus, if she does?"
"Lucky guess."
"Rob! Taz!" Oak cried. "I trust since you two are the more adventurous ones, you'll head to Pewter City for a badge?"
"H**LYEAH!!" The two cried.
"Better get going, it's a 6 hour's journey by bike from here."
"Taz, you know what this means, don't you?" Rob asked.
"Yeah! We better start training! Brock's sure to be tough!!" Taz responded.
"Good luck marrying Keeli!!" Mewtwo cried, mimicking Rob.
"OH SHUT UP!!!!"