Chapter 15 - R&R
It was the first week of the summer weather and the Expedition was
now well into the forest part of the Outer Territories.
The Expedition was reaching a month old now and after hard work catching and
logging in diffrent types of new pokemon, Gary Oak decided to give
everyone the weekend off.
Saturday began bright and beautiful and the HQ stopped by a large and
shimmering lake. Gary's orders were clear: HAVE FUN!
The Pokemon ran free and played around the camp area. All of them
roamed the grassy area know to the Outer Territories as the Forest Glen.
Briss, Ryer, Jett, and Graydon all stood side by side like racehorces ready
to bolt out of the starting gate.
They were dressed in bathing suits and floating tubes, and they were waiting
for Dr. Joy to finish her anyalisis of the lake water.
They crept closer and closer to the water's edge.
"GET BACK!" Joy yelled not even looking at them.
Knee deep in the clear blue water Joy read off the readings in her medical
tricorder. "I'm not done yet." she said.
As they waited boredly Jett noticed Graydon's metal harness was still around
his legs.
"Graydon?" He asked. "You've still got your leg clamps on. Won't you get
electrocuted if you go in the water?"
Graydon smiled "Why Jett...I didn't know you cared." He said teasingly.
"No problem. When I made these I outfitted them with water proof circuts.
I'll be fine!"
Jett was impressed. "You made that? Can you by chance make me a goalie
mask with infrared radar?"
Graydon grinned at the simplicity of his requset.
"Throw in your gum rations and we'll talk!"
Dr. Joy finished her work on the lake water, and she liked what she
saw. Nothing. No bacteria, no leeches, no sharp rocks, no snakes. Not even
any nasty water pokemon. The water itself was clean and pure.
It was almost a shame that it's purity was about to be ruined by a band of
rambunctious dirty teenagers.
She faced the masses. "You may swim........."
PLABOOOOOOOSHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Instantly Joy was smothered by a tidal wave. She spit out water as a small
fish flapped frantically, caught in the left loop of her pink hair.
"...........have fun..............." She muttered.
As the teens frolicked in the water Kenny took the opportunity to fire up the
grill. It was his turn to grill the hamburgers, steaks and hot dogs for
today's cookout.
"Yesssireee, we're gonna feast tonight! Hey Gary? How's that hard light
player coming along?" He asked.
Gary was stooped over the large rectangular platform with four black boxes on
all corneres.
He stood up. "All right! Finished, now for the test!"
Gary popped in a small CD and hit play. From the rectangular stage appeared a
hard light hologram of Areosmith.
The members of Areosmith all looked around at their surroundings.
Steven Tyler liked what he saw. "Sun, beach, girls. Allright!"
He looked at Gary. "Whatcha' wanna hear first?"
Gary thought. "Start with Toys in the Attic and work your way from there."
"What about us!?! A chorus of voices asked.
Gary looked over at one corner of the hologram of the Three Lights, with
microphones in hand. Seyia Kou glared at Gary. "What are we supposed to do?"
"Kenny......?" Gary asked, seeing the chubby security guard snickering into
his 'kiss the cook' apron.
"You guys are a practical joke." he giggled.
Steven Tyler rolled his eyes as the Lights shuffled off, dissapointed.
"One.....two....a one two three four!"
And Areosmith started playing.
Far off from the campsite, but still in ears range, sat Kal and Kia.
Kia was progressing greatly in her Jedi training.
But she still had far to go. She sat in meditiation.
"Concentrate Kia...Feel the Force flow through you...draw on it's strength."
Kal whsipered.
Kia did and the four huge rocks around her began to float and stack on one
another.
Kal smiled. "That's it Kia! Your doing it........" Kia slowly opened her eyes
to see the four boulders stacked on top of each other.
"Wow!" She breathed at what she had done. The four rocks came tumbling
down as concentration was lost.
"D-Did I do that?!" She yelped.
Kal scratched his thin beard. "You still need to strengthen your
concentration, but you're on the right course. Keep it up!"
Kal noticed Kia gaze off hearing her friends have fun.
"That's all for today." He said.
Kia looked at her Jedi Master.
"You mean....?" She smiled.
"Yes, go.....play! I believe Gary wanted you all to have the weekend off, and
Jedi need to know when to work and when to relax."
"Great!" She sang and stood up "What will you be doing?" She asked as she
strapped her red backpack to her back.
Kal streched his fingers and his lightsaber flew from across the way and into
his hand as if it were magnetized.
"I must partake in intense Jedi Meditation." He said seriously.
"Cubone! Bone! Bone!"
There was Cubone by his side tugging at his robe and holding two reflective
boards...the kind used for tanning.
Behind Cubone was a little kiddie pool filled with water and a small table
with an umbrella and two sunchairs, and two fancy drinks.
"Jedi Meditation...?" Kia sweatdropped. "Right Kal..........."
Kia walked back to the campsite on the way she was met by Oddish.
"Ooodish. Ooodish! Ooooooodish!" It cooed.
"Hey Oddy! You got my mental call!" she said as she scooped the little plant
Pokemon up in her arms.
Kia then ducked behind a tree.
"Keep a lookout for me ok?" She said as she quickly changed into her blue
two piece bathing suit, pulling a large pink t-shirt over it.
"Okay. Let's go oddy!"
"Oodish?"
"The training's going great!"
"Oodish, oodish?"
"It hasn't been easy, but I feel like I'm a natural at this!"
"Oooooodish! Ooooodish!"
"Kal thinks I have great potential to be a Jedi Master too. I just gotta
watch out for the dark side."
She remembered the talk he had had with her about the lure of the dark side
of the Force.
"Oodish?"
"No! Kal dosen't think I'm ready for lightsaber training yet!'
"Oodish...."
"You really think I've changed?"
"Ooodish!
"Wow! Thankies Oddy!"
"Ooooooooodish!"
"I love you too."
Kia got to the front of the HQ and saw from afar some of the crew by
the edge of the lake. Then she felt a beachball bounce off her head.
She looked up to see Nina on top of the HQ.
"Hey Girlfriend! Come on up and join us!"
Kia smiled and with Oodish on her back she climbed up atop the HQ to see Nina
Ruka, Dr.Joy and Dr. Trudie all relaxing and sunbathing.
Joy and Trudie sat in sunchairs, while Ruka laid on a beachtowel face down
with her back bikini strap undone.
"Don't want any stripes." She explained. "Pull up a towel!"
"Yeah soak up the sun!" Joy said through a pair of rayban's.
"Ok!" Kia smiled as she took off her t-shirt, revealing her swimsiut
underneath.
"That's a nice bikini Kia? Where'd you get it?" Nina asked.
"Wal-Mart." Kia blushed.
"Cool! I can never find swimsuits like that where my parents make me shop."
Kia smiled "Thanks!"
"Kia....." Trudie said lazily. "Be a dear and pour a frozen margerita from
the blue cooler please."
Kia gulped. "I-I don't think were old enought to drink Dr.Trudie........"
Dr.Trudie chuckled "I am, you're not. If you want a drink you'll have to pour
yourself a virgin strawberry daquri."
She sat up, grinning.
"Oh as if she would know how to make a frozen margurita anyway Trudie." Joy
sighed and fixed her friend the drink.
Kia laid down on a towel and sighed.
"How nice." she said.
Nina came up behind her.
"Here Kia, let me put some suntan lotion on you." She said, rubbing some of
the sunblock on Kia's back. "You don't want to get burned."
"Mmmmmmmm, that feels good." Kia sighed. "Did you used to be a massuse or
something?"
"Nah. I just have a fussy Pikachu that likes to get her cheeks rubbed." Nina
said wryly. "She's a real picky eater too."
Ruka looked a Kia from her towel.
"K-Kia. Thanks for being there for Ryer when I was sick." she said quietly.
"You mean when you were stupid enough to eat those berries?" Nina asked.
Ruka shot her a look and continued. "I-It really meant a lot to me that he
was being watched over when I couldn't be there." She said, tears fighting
to escape her eyes.
Kia smiled. "Of course Ruka, that's what friends are for."
Later on as the girls talked girl talk the topic was raised.
"Hey Kia? Where's Kal?" Trudie asked as she sipped her margerita.
Kia looked up. "He said he had to do some 'Jedi Meditation', but I think he's
really sunbathing with his Cuebone."
"WHAT?!?!?!" They all yelled and sat up "WHERE?!?!?!?"
"Over in the grove?" Said Kia meekly.
The girls all launched from their seats and looked for him.
Ruka peered through her binoculars.
"There he is!" She shouted, leaning over Nina's back.
Nina sweatdropped. "Ruka? No stripes, remember?"
Ruka looked down. "Huh? ACKKK!!!!" She shouted as she dropped the binoculars
and frantically fastened the back of her bikini.
Joy grabbed the binoculars and peered at Kal. "Oh god! He's cute!"
The girls all fought for a view of Kal in his Return of The Jedi swimtrunks.
Kia looked away embarrassed.
"Oh, C'mon! You never wondered what he looked like under those robes?!"
Trudie cried.
They continued to spy on the Jedi in the kiddie pool relaxing.... until he
casually waved his hand and mouthed. 'Hi Girls!'
Then the binoculars flew out of Trudie's hands to the soft grass below where
they were taken away by Jett's Paras. "Paras! Paras! Paras! Paras!" It cooed.
Afterwards as everyone ate by the campfire, Kal told the tale of how
a Young Anakin Skywalker began his quest as a Jedi. Of all the people
listening closely was Kia. Her eyes transfixed on her teacher.
The evening ended when Gary passed out mail from this evening's mail drop.
"I finally got a letter from Brian!" Nina screamed with glee.
She waited till later that night to read it when it was the girls
turn to sleep in the HQ. It was almost lights out and Nina had just emerged
from the shower wrapped in a large yellow towel. She sat on the bunk and
inserted the letter in the moniter in the wall.
Briss was on the top bunk reading her manga, while Ruka taught Kia to play
poker on the table by the beds.
"Hey Ruka! I think I won! See all the kings I have!" She said holding up her
hand. Ruka blinked.
"No, see you have too many kings! What we'll do is take these four cards and
give you a four brand new ones!"
Kia looked at her new hand. A 5, a Queen, a 7, and a Joker.
"Did I win?"
Ruka frowned. "Sorry Kia, not this time." She said as she laid down her hand
of two pairs. She took the pile of candy on the table.
"You'll get the hang of this soon!" She grinned and sucked down a pixie stick.
The message began with Brian at the gym in Lavender City.
"Hi Nina! How are you? I hope your doing well in the Outer Territoires and
are safe. I'm doing well here too, I caught a Spearow and a Weedenbell.
I also just won a Marsh Badge!
Just two more and I'll be able to compete in the League!
You're out exploring and finding new pokemon and I'll be competeing in the
league soon, which brings me to somthing else." he paused.
"This will be tough for me to say but, I think our lives are growing apart
and it's time for us to move on and see other people."
Nina went pale, as Briss, Ruka, and Kia all stopped and looked.
"Oh god.......Nina......"Ruka whispered
"You've got a great life ahead of you and I feel we would get in each others
way. Please write to me, I still want to be friends. Take care! I'll talk to
you later." The message ended.
Ruka sat on the bed with Nina.
"Nina......I'm sorry......." She said quietly.
Nina was still pale. She felt weak and sick. Trembling, tears beginning to
well up in her brown eyes she turned around and laid her head on Ruka's lap
and began crying.
"Oh Nina!" Ruka whimpered, as she stroked her red hair softly
"It's Ok! It's Ok... You're not alone."
Briss sat up and swung down like a monkey, hanging upside down off of the top
bunk. She eyed Nina, hair flopping around her face.
"Funny how they still want to be friends after they've ripped your heart
out isn't it?" she said.
The girls all stayed up till 1:00 in the morning that night, comforting Nina
to sleep.....
Chp 16: Dr.Trudie Whispman: Up close and personal.......
It took four hours of a knock down slobber knocker of a fight, but
Dr. Gary Oak, Graydon and Briss finally caught the elusive Mudhopper.
The Mudhopper the mud Pokemon is lightning fast in the mud and awful
mischevious. By the time it was caught by the pokeball that Briss threw they
were all caked in thick gooey mud.
After an hour of being hosed down, Team Alpha were finally allowed to
shower. Dr.Trudie forcefully told them: "NO MUD IN HQ!"
Briss was the first in the shower. Then Graydon and finally Gary.
Gary melted and relaxed in the hot shower.
"Ahhhhhhh.........." He moaned. "Heaven!"
His heaven was cut short when Trudie barged into the bathroom,
"Heya, sweetcheeks!" She sang.
"Trudie!" He yelled, hiding behind the steamed glass door.
"Do you mind!?! I'm trying to shower here!!"
Trudie chuckled. She could always get under his skin. She dug around the
sink, looking for some elusive item.
"Relax, I gotta get something for Briss. Beside's, it's not like I've never
seen you in the shower." She chukled as she left.
Gary scoffed. "That shower had curtains!" he yelled, then muttered.
"Spirited little jer-YAHHHH!!!!!!!!!"
He screamed as hot water ended and turned into ice cold water.
"I hate being last in the shower......"
Dr.Trudie entered the main part of HQ where a very nervous and very
agitated Briss was waiting.
"Here." She said with a warm and caring smile.
Briss sighed and quickly snatched the package and stuffed it in her short
pocket. "T-thanks!" She said as she made for the door.
"Briss! " She called out as Briss stopped just short of opening the door.
"You do eventually get used to them! I'll be here if you ever need to talk."
Briss smiled a little and nodded in agreement and left.
A little while later in the day a frantic Ruka tore into the HQ in
tears. She was carrying her Eevee, who was apparently hurt and crying.
"D-D-Dr.Trudie! M-m-m-Muh my Eevee's hurt! S-she was playing in the grass and
then she just started howling and I....
"Put her on the table." Trudie said, standing up from her coffee.
"Let's see what she got." She said as Ruka laid the little animal on the
examining table.
Trudie activated the Mediscan. As the holographic windows began to scan over
the little Eevee she frowned.
"Hmmmm it appears she stepped in those weeds with the poision spines. There
are several in her paw." Trudie also saw a large deposit of poision in the
leg. She put on rubber gloves and pulled out a pair of tweezers and a
tourniquet.
She tied the tourniquet around little Eevee's leg.
"Hold her still." she told Ruka. "I have to remove the spines so she may kick
a little."
Ruka held her as Trudie started but at the first notion of pain little Eevee
began to yelp and kick franticaly.
"Ruka, let Eevee suck your thumb!"
Ruka blinked. "My thumb? Won't she bite it?"
Trudie shook her head. "Nope Eevee's rarley bite their trainers. They can be
calmed if they're allowed to suckle on something."
Ruka stuck her thumb in Eevee's mouth and the little Pokemon began to
suck placidly.
Truidie removed the spines one by one. She then untied the tourniquet and
injected Eevee with an anti-toxin to fight the poision in her blood.
"This medicine will make her sleepy but it will get rid of the poision. Let's
let her get some rest she'll be Ok by morning."
Ruka pulled her tumb from the drowsy Eevee's mouth and launched herself at
Dr.Trudie, trapping the older woman in a hug.
"Thanks so much Dr.Trudie!"
Trudie smiled against the crushing hug of Ruka.
"It's ok!" She croaked" Please call me Trudie." She smiled, "Do you want to
stay for cinnamon tea and cookies?"
Ruka grinned and her eyes went wide. "Cookies!? Yes! Yes!"
The pretty 16 year old and 28 year old both sat down for tea and
cookies. Ruka chatted and told of her parents adventures as Team Rocket, and
her adventures with her brother as they formed Team Rocket Two.
Trudie giggled all the way through.
"So, what's your story Trudie?" Ruka asked.
Trudie swallowed a gulp of tea and sat back. "Has it been that long?"
She began her story as Ruka paid close attention.
"I first got into Pokemon when I was 9. My dad had a friend in the leauge so
he pulled some strings and I was able to get my license a year early. My
first pokemon was a Charmander. I liked to call him Charzy.
About two years later I developed my first crush.
It was on the top trainer for that year. Gary Oak."
Ruka choked on a cookie "HACK! HACK! You LIKED Gary?!?!" She choked.
Trudie smiled. "Yup. You see whenever Gary traveled around he had a pep squad
with him. He called it his fan club. I was the one in the front to the far
left. I was with five other airheads who sang and did cheers for Gary.
Then one day I looked at my surroundings, looked at Gary, I looked at the pep
squad and I realised, I had enough.
I was fed up. Gary really wasn't all that, In fact he was kind of a jerk..."
She paused "No, he was really more of a stuck up little snot. I was fed up
with hearing these girls carry on about how great Gary was and how their
makeup was doing. So I threw down my pom-poms and told them:
'You're all idiots! Screw you guys....I'm going home!'
Gary actually tried to stop me. It would have worked if he hadn't told me the
only reason I had to stay was so his well laid plain to have a squad of six
girls would be intact.
I told him to shove his well laid plan up his well laid ass!
I knew I was way smarter than any of those girls put together.
For the next few years I studied intently at the Pokemon Tech Academy.
About a few months before I was to graduate I was caught and made a scapegoat
in an internet cheating scandal.
I couldn't defend myself so I was expelled. But not before I stuffed the
class leader's locker with a bunch of ticked off Voltorbs!
I was allowed to keep my qualifications and finish at a regular high school.
I took a year off to go on my Pokemon journey and compete in the Pokemon
Leauges. During the championship tourment for the Pokemon Cup. I ran into
Gary again. That was the year he won the Pokecup for the first time.
But not before I whooped his butt in the preliminary practice round.
Later we found ourselves attending the same college, we both wanted to be
Pokemon researchers. We also started dating later that year..."
Ruka blinked "Wow! You and Gary dated!?! I bet you could blackmail him
bigtime!"
"I can!" Trudie grinned. "And at some point I intend to!
Our relationship ended after a year and a half.
It took a while but eventually we became friends again. Then soon after I
graduated and earned my Doctorate in Pokemonology. I was hired on by the
University to study pokemon in their natural habitat. In fact during an
outing to Mt. Dorn is how I first met a certain Jedi Knight!"
"How did you meet Kal?" Ruka asked eagerly. "Did he save your life
too?"
Trudie chuckled. "Actually It's the other way around!"
Ruka laughed "Oh My GOD! Blackmail City!"
Trudie laughed too. "See I was up on the face of the mountain studying a nest
of wild Pidgys. I was up high too, about 200 ft., when lo and behold I heard
a comotion to the far right of me.
I swung around to find Kal hanging on for dear life. He had slipped and
fallen off the edge of the mountian. He caught on to a ledge and hung on.
I smiled and asked if he needed a lift. He climbed on my back and we
repelled down. We've pretty much been friends ever since! He didn't tell me
till a year later that he and Gary were friends too."
Ruka sipped her tea. "So how were you chosen to come on the
expedition?"
"Well for the longest time Gary's grandfather lobbied for the exploration of
the outer territories. Shortly after Proffesor Oak died the treaty was signed
and all barriers here were gone.
Gary then took over the project. When he got final approval to go he
called his first and best choice to help him lead the Expedition..."
She pointed to herself. "Me! I got the call at three in the morning too!"
Just then Dr.Joy awoke from her slumber and entered the main room
where Ruka and Trudie were. She trudged out of the room wearing Kal's
Chewbacca fuzzy slippers and an olive green shirt so long it hit her thighs.
She poured herself a cup of coffee, exchanged hellos and sat at the table.
"Nice nap?" Trudie asked.
Joy nodded. "Yup. I'll be heading out tonight with the guys on an overnight
hunt."
She looked out the window to see Ryer and Jett wrestling each other to death
in a patch of dust.
"And judging from the amount of testosterone out there it looks like survival
101 will be in session tonight."
"What do you mean?" Ruka asked with a puzzled look.
Trudie explained. "You see Ruka, aside from becoming a doctor Joy was also in
Special Forces in the army."
"Wow!" Ruka yelled.
Joy only slurped her coffee. She looked out the window at Jett, who was
perched on Ryer's chest strangling the rocket boy.
"Use pressure points!" she yelled.
Jett looked up at her giving Ryer a clear opening to slug him in the jaw.
"Dumb kid." Joy groaned.
Ruka blinked. "Y'know you two are probably the best role models a girl could
ask for!" she exclaimed.
Joy chukled. "Ruka were no different from you. We did nothing you couldn't do
if you wanted to."
Trudie continued. "Yeah. You've got to find your own strength. But one thing
has always been as certain in our life as it will be in yours..."
She was cut off as Kenny walked in with a Trikans (A three headed Ekans)
wrapped around his body with two heads on his shoulders and the middle one
on his head. They were all happily chewing on him.
"Uhhhhh, Trudie...Joy...I gotta problem here...."
"Our work is never done!" They said in unison.
Yaaaahaahahaha! I really like this story! You're good at this!
(This has been a message from Pika-chan - Editor-In-Training)
It was the first week of the summer weather and the Expedition was
now well into the forest part of the Outer Territories.
The Expedition was reaching a month old now and after hard work catching and
logging in diffrent types of new pokemon, Gary Oak decided to give
everyone the weekend off.
Saturday began bright and beautiful and the HQ stopped by a large and
shimmering lake. Gary's orders were clear: HAVE FUN!
The Pokemon ran free and played around the camp area. All of them
roamed the grassy area know to the Outer Territories as the Forest Glen.
Briss, Ryer, Jett, and Graydon all stood side by side like racehorces ready
to bolt out of the starting gate.
They were dressed in bathing suits and floating tubes, and they were waiting
for Dr. Joy to finish her anyalisis of the lake water.
They crept closer and closer to the water's edge.
"GET BACK!" Joy yelled not even looking at them.
Knee deep in the clear blue water Joy read off the readings in her medical
tricorder. "I'm not done yet." she said.
As they waited boredly Jett noticed Graydon's metal harness was still around
his legs.
"Graydon?" He asked. "You've still got your leg clamps on. Won't you get
electrocuted if you go in the water?"
Graydon smiled "Why Jett...I didn't know you cared." He said teasingly.
"No problem. When I made these I outfitted them with water proof circuts.
I'll be fine!"
Jett was impressed. "You made that? Can you by chance make me a goalie
mask with infrared radar?"
Graydon grinned at the simplicity of his requset.
"Throw in your gum rations and we'll talk!"
Dr. Joy finished her work on the lake water, and she liked what she
saw. Nothing. No bacteria, no leeches, no sharp rocks, no snakes. Not even
any nasty water pokemon. The water itself was clean and pure.
It was almost a shame that it's purity was about to be ruined by a band of
rambunctious dirty teenagers.
She faced the masses. "You may swim........."
PLABOOOOOOOSHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Instantly Joy was smothered by a tidal wave. She spit out water as a small
fish flapped frantically, caught in the left loop of her pink hair.
"...........have fun..............." She muttered.
As the teens frolicked in the water Kenny took the opportunity to fire up the
grill. It was his turn to grill the hamburgers, steaks and hot dogs for
today's cookout.
"Yesssireee, we're gonna feast tonight! Hey Gary? How's that hard light
player coming along?" He asked.
Gary was stooped over the large rectangular platform with four black boxes on
all corneres.
He stood up. "All right! Finished, now for the test!"
Gary popped in a small CD and hit play. From the rectangular stage appeared a
hard light hologram of Areosmith.
The members of Areosmith all looked around at their surroundings.
Steven Tyler liked what he saw. "Sun, beach, girls. Allright!"
He looked at Gary. "Whatcha' wanna hear first?"
Gary thought. "Start with Toys in the Attic and work your way from there."
"What about us!?! A chorus of voices asked.
Gary looked over at one corner of the hologram of the Three Lights, with
microphones in hand. Seyia Kou glared at Gary. "What are we supposed to do?"
"Kenny......?" Gary asked, seeing the chubby security guard snickering into
his 'kiss the cook' apron.
"You guys are a practical joke." he giggled.
Steven Tyler rolled his eyes as the Lights shuffled off, dissapointed.
"One.....two....a one two three four!"
And Areosmith started playing.
Far off from the campsite, but still in ears range, sat Kal and Kia.
Kia was progressing greatly in her Jedi training.
But she still had far to go. She sat in meditiation.
"Concentrate Kia...Feel the Force flow through you...draw on it's strength."
Kal whsipered.
Kia did and the four huge rocks around her began to float and stack on one
another.
Kal smiled. "That's it Kia! Your doing it........" Kia slowly opened her eyes
to see the four boulders stacked on top of each other.
"Wow!" She breathed at what she had done. The four rocks came tumbling
down as concentration was lost.
"D-Did I do that?!" She yelped.
Kal scratched his thin beard. "You still need to strengthen your
concentration, but you're on the right course. Keep it up!"
Kal noticed Kia gaze off hearing her friends have fun.
"That's all for today." He said.
Kia looked at her Jedi Master.
"You mean....?" She smiled.
"Yes, go.....play! I believe Gary wanted you all to have the weekend off, and
Jedi need to know when to work and when to relax."
"Great!" She sang and stood up "What will you be doing?" She asked as she
strapped her red backpack to her back.
Kal streched his fingers and his lightsaber flew from across the way and into
his hand as if it were magnetized.
"I must partake in intense Jedi Meditation." He said seriously.
"Cubone! Bone! Bone!"
There was Cubone by his side tugging at his robe and holding two reflective
boards...the kind used for tanning.
Behind Cubone was a little kiddie pool filled with water and a small table
with an umbrella and two sunchairs, and two fancy drinks.
"Jedi Meditation...?" Kia sweatdropped. "Right Kal..........."
Kia walked back to the campsite on the way she was met by Oddish.
"Ooodish. Ooodish! Ooooooodish!" It cooed.
"Hey Oddy! You got my mental call!" she said as she scooped the little plant
Pokemon up in her arms.
Kia then ducked behind a tree.
"Keep a lookout for me ok?" She said as she quickly changed into her blue
two piece bathing suit, pulling a large pink t-shirt over it.
"Okay. Let's go oddy!"
"Oodish?"
"The training's going great!"
"Oodish, oodish?"
"It hasn't been easy, but I feel like I'm a natural at this!"
"Oooooodish! Ooooodish!"
"Kal thinks I have great potential to be a Jedi Master too. I just gotta
watch out for the dark side."
She remembered the talk he had had with her about the lure of the dark side
of the Force.
"Oodish?"
"No! Kal dosen't think I'm ready for lightsaber training yet!'
"Oodish...."
"You really think I've changed?"
"Ooodish!
"Wow! Thankies Oddy!"
"Ooooooooodish!"
"I love you too."
Kia got to the front of the HQ and saw from afar some of the crew by
the edge of the lake. Then she felt a beachball bounce off her head.
She looked up to see Nina on top of the HQ.
"Hey Girlfriend! Come on up and join us!"
Kia smiled and with Oodish on her back she climbed up atop the HQ to see Nina
Ruka, Dr.Joy and Dr. Trudie all relaxing and sunbathing.
Joy and Trudie sat in sunchairs, while Ruka laid on a beachtowel face down
with her back bikini strap undone.
"Don't want any stripes." She explained. "Pull up a towel!"
"Yeah soak up the sun!" Joy said through a pair of rayban's.
"Ok!" Kia smiled as she took off her t-shirt, revealing her swimsiut
underneath.
"That's a nice bikini Kia? Where'd you get it?" Nina asked.
"Wal-Mart." Kia blushed.
"Cool! I can never find swimsuits like that where my parents make me shop."
Kia smiled "Thanks!"
"Kia....." Trudie said lazily. "Be a dear and pour a frozen margerita from
the blue cooler please."
Kia gulped. "I-I don't think were old enought to drink Dr.Trudie........"
Dr.Trudie chuckled "I am, you're not. If you want a drink you'll have to pour
yourself a virgin strawberry daquri."
She sat up, grinning.
"Oh as if she would know how to make a frozen margurita anyway Trudie." Joy
sighed and fixed her friend the drink.
Kia laid down on a towel and sighed.
"How nice." she said.
Nina came up behind her.
"Here Kia, let me put some suntan lotion on you." She said, rubbing some of
the sunblock on Kia's back. "You don't want to get burned."
"Mmmmmmmm, that feels good." Kia sighed. "Did you used to be a massuse or
something?"
"Nah. I just have a fussy Pikachu that likes to get her cheeks rubbed." Nina
said wryly. "She's a real picky eater too."
Ruka looked a Kia from her towel.
"K-Kia. Thanks for being there for Ryer when I was sick." she said quietly.
"You mean when you were stupid enough to eat those berries?" Nina asked.
Ruka shot her a look and continued. "I-It really meant a lot to me that he
was being watched over when I couldn't be there." She said, tears fighting
to escape her eyes.
Kia smiled. "Of course Ruka, that's what friends are for."
Later on as the girls talked girl talk the topic was raised.
"Hey Kia? Where's Kal?" Trudie asked as she sipped her margerita.
Kia looked up. "He said he had to do some 'Jedi Meditation', but I think he's
really sunbathing with his Cuebone."
"WHAT?!?!?!" They all yelled and sat up "WHERE?!?!?!?"
"Over in the grove?" Said Kia meekly.
The girls all launched from their seats and looked for him.
Ruka peered through her binoculars.
"There he is!" She shouted, leaning over Nina's back.
Nina sweatdropped. "Ruka? No stripes, remember?"
Ruka looked down. "Huh? ACKKK!!!!" She shouted as she dropped the binoculars
and frantically fastened the back of her bikini.
Joy grabbed the binoculars and peered at Kal. "Oh god! He's cute!"
The girls all fought for a view of Kal in his Return of The Jedi swimtrunks.
Kia looked away embarrassed.
"Oh, C'mon! You never wondered what he looked like under those robes?!"
Trudie cried.
They continued to spy on the Jedi in the kiddie pool relaxing.... until he
casually waved his hand and mouthed. 'Hi Girls!'
Then the binoculars flew out of Trudie's hands to the soft grass below where
they were taken away by Jett's Paras. "Paras! Paras! Paras! Paras!" It cooed.
Afterwards as everyone ate by the campfire, Kal told the tale of how
a Young Anakin Skywalker began his quest as a Jedi. Of all the people
listening closely was Kia. Her eyes transfixed on her teacher.
The evening ended when Gary passed out mail from this evening's mail drop.
"I finally got a letter from Brian!" Nina screamed with glee.
She waited till later that night to read it when it was the girls
turn to sleep in the HQ. It was almost lights out and Nina had just emerged
from the shower wrapped in a large yellow towel. She sat on the bunk and
inserted the letter in the moniter in the wall.
Briss was on the top bunk reading her manga, while Ruka taught Kia to play
poker on the table by the beds.
"Hey Ruka! I think I won! See all the kings I have!" She said holding up her
hand. Ruka blinked.
"No, see you have too many kings! What we'll do is take these four cards and
give you a four brand new ones!"
Kia looked at her new hand. A 5, a Queen, a 7, and a Joker.
"Did I win?"
Ruka frowned. "Sorry Kia, not this time." She said as she laid down her hand
of two pairs. She took the pile of candy on the table.
"You'll get the hang of this soon!" She grinned and sucked down a pixie stick.
The message began with Brian at the gym in Lavender City.
"Hi Nina! How are you? I hope your doing well in the Outer Territoires and
are safe. I'm doing well here too, I caught a Spearow and a Weedenbell.
I also just won a Marsh Badge!
Just two more and I'll be able to compete in the League!
You're out exploring and finding new pokemon and I'll be competeing in the
league soon, which brings me to somthing else." he paused.
"This will be tough for me to say but, I think our lives are growing apart
and it's time for us to move on and see other people."
Nina went pale, as Briss, Ruka, and Kia all stopped and looked.
"Oh god.......Nina......"Ruka whispered
"You've got a great life ahead of you and I feel we would get in each others
way. Please write to me, I still want to be friends. Take care! I'll talk to
you later." The message ended.
Ruka sat on the bed with Nina.
"Nina......I'm sorry......." She said quietly.
Nina was still pale. She felt weak and sick. Trembling, tears beginning to
well up in her brown eyes she turned around and laid her head on Ruka's lap
and began crying.
"Oh Nina!" Ruka whimpered, as she stroked her red hair softly
"It's Ok! It's Ok... You're not alone."
Briss sat up and swung down like a monkey, hanging upside down off of the top
bunk. She eyed Nina, hair flopping around her face.
"Funny how they still want to be friends after they've ripped your heart
out isn't it?" she said.
The girls all stayed up till 1:00 in the morning that night, comforting Nina
to sleep.....
Chp 16: Dr.Trudie Whispman: Up close and personal.......
It took four hours of a knock down slobber knocker of a fight, but
Dr. Gary Oak, Graydon and Briss finally caught the elusive Mudhopper.
The Mudhopper the mud Pokemon is lightning fast in the mud and awful
mischevious. By the time it was caught by the pokeball that Briss threw they
were all caked in thick gooey mud.
After an hour of being hosed down, Team Alpha were finally allowed to
shower. Dr.Trudie forcefully told them: "NO MUD IN HQ!"
Briss was the first in the shower. Then Graydon and finally Gary.
Gary melted and relaxed in the hot shower.
"Ahhhhhhh.........." He moaned. "Heaven!"
His heaven was cut short when Trudie barged into the bathroom,
"Heya, sweetcheeks!" She sang.
"Trudie!" He yelled, hiding behind the steamed glass door.
"Do you mind!?! I'm trying to shower here!!"
Trudie chuckled. She could always get under his skin. She dug around the
sink, looking for some elusive item.
"Relax, I gotta get something for Briss. Beside's, it's not like I've never
seen you in the shower." She chukled as she left.
Gary scoffed. "That shower had curtains!" he yelled, then muttered.
"Spirited little jer-YAHHHH!!!!!!!!!"
He screamed as hot water ended and turned into ice cold water.
"I hate being last in the shower......"
Dr.Trudie entered the main part of HQ where a very nervous and very
agitated Briss was waiting.
"Here." She said with a warm and caring smile.
Briss sighed and quickly snatched the package and stuffed it in her short
pocket. "T-thanks!" She said as she made for the door.
"Briss! " She called out as Briss stopped just short of opening the door.
"You do eventually get used to them! I'll be here if you ever need to talk."
Briss smiled a little and nodded in agreement and left.
A little while later in the day a frantic Ruka tore into the HQ in
tears. She was carrying her Eevee, who was apparently hurt and crying.
"D-D-Dr.Trudie! M-m-m-Muh my Eevee's hurt! S-she was playing in the grass and
then she just started howling and I....
"Put her on the table." Trudie said, standing up from her coffee.
"Let's see what she got." She said as Ruka laid the little animal on the
examining table.
Trudie activated the Mediscan. As the holographic windows began to scan over
the little Eevee she frowned.
"Hmmmm it appears she stepped in those weeds with the poision spines. There
are several in her paw." Trudie also saw a large deposit of poision in the
leg. She put on rubber gloves and pulled out a pair of tweezers and a
tourniquet.
She tied the tourniquet around little Eevee's leg.
"Hold her still." she told Ruka. "I have to remove the spines so she may kick
a little."
Ruka held her as Trudie started but at the first notion of pain little Eevee
began to yelp and kick franticaly.
"Ruka, let Eevee suck your thumb!"
Ruka blinked. "My thumb? Won't she bite it?"
Trudie shook her head. "Nope Eevee's rarley bite their trainers. They can be
calmed if they're allowed to suckle on something."
Ruka stuck her thumb in Eevee's mouth and the little Pokemon began to
suck placidly.
Truidie removed the spines one by one. She then untied the tourniquet and
injected Eevee with an anti-toxin to fight the poision in her blood.
"This medicine will make her sleepy but it will get rid of the poision. Let's
let her get some rest she'll be Ok by morning."
Ruka pulled her tumb from the drowsy Eevee's mouth and launched herself at
Dr.Trudie, trapping the older woman in a hug.
"Thanks so much Dr.Trudie!"
Trudie smiled against the crushing hug of Ruka.
"It's ok!" She croaked" Please call me Trudie." She smiled, "Do you want to
stay for cinnamon tea and cookies?"
Ruka grinned and her eyes went wide. "Cookies!? Yes! Yes!"
The pretty 16 year old and 28 year old both sat down for tea and
cookies. Ruka chatted and told of her parents adventures as Team Rocket, and
her adventures with her brother as they formed Team Rocket Two.
Trudie giggled all the way through.
"So, what's your story Trudie?" Ruka asked.
Trudie swallowed a gulp of tea and sat back. "Has it been that long?"
She began her story as Ruka paid close attention.
"I first got into Pokemon when I was 9. My dad had a friend in the leauge so
he pulled some strings and I was able to get my license a year early. My
first pokemon was a Charmander. I liked to call him Charzy.
About two years later I developed my first crush.
It was on the top trainer for that year. Gary Oak."
Ruka choked on a cookie "HACK! HACK! You LIKED Gary?!?!" She choked.
Trudie smiled. "Yup. You see whenever Gary traveled around he had a pep squad
with him. He called it his fan club. I was the one in the front to the far
left. I was with five other airheads who sang and did cheers for Gary.
Then one day I looked at my surroundings, looked at Gary, I looked at the pep
squad and I realised, I had enough.
I was fed up. Gary really wasn't all that, In fact he was kind of a jerk..."
She paused "No, he was really more of a stuck up little snot. I was fed up
with hearing these girls carry on about how great Gary was and how their
makeup was doing. So I threw down my pom-poms and told them:
'You're all idiots! Screw you guys....I'm going home!'
Gary actually tried to stop me. It would have worked if he hadn't told me the
only reason I had to stay was so his well laid plain to have a squad of six
girls would be intact.
I told him to shove his well laid plan up his well laid ass!
I knew I was way smarter than any of those girls put together.
For the next few years I studied intently at the Pokemon Tech Academy.
About a few months before I was to graduate I was caught and made a scapegoat
in an internet cheating scandal.
I couldn't defend myself so I was expelled. But not before I stuffed the
class leader's locker with a bunch of ticked off Voltorbs!
I was allowed to keep my qualifications and finish at a regular high school.
I took a year off to go on my Pokemon journey and compete in the Pokemon
Leauges. During the championship tourment for the Pokemon Cup. I ran into
Gary again. That was the year he won the Pokecup for the first time.
But not before I whooped his butt in the preliminary practice round.
Later we found ourselves attending the same college, we both wanted to be
Pokemon researchers. We also started dating later that year..."
Ruka blinked "Wow! You and Gary dated!?! I bet you could blackmail him
bigtime!"
"I can!" Trudie grinned. "And at some point I intend to!
Our relationship ended after a year and a half.
It took a while but eventually we became friends again. Then soon after I
graduated and earned my Doctorate in Pokemonology. I was hired on by the
University to study pokemon in their natural habitat. In fact during an
outing to Mt. Dorn is how I first met a certain Jedi Knight!"
"How did you meet Kal?" Ruka asked eagerly. "Did he save your life
too?"
Trudie chuckled. "Actually It's the other way around!"
Ruka laughed "Oh My GOD! Blackmail City!"
Trudie laughed too. "See I was up on the face of the mountain studying a nest
of wild Pidgys. I was up high too, about 200 ft., when lo and behold I heard
a comotion to the far right of me.
I swung around to find Kal hanging on for dear life. He had slipped and
fallen off the edge of the mountian. He caught on to a ledge and hung on.
I smiled and asked if he needed a lift. He climbed on my back and we
repelled down. We've pretty much been friends ever since! He didn't tell me
till a year later that he and Gary were friends too."
Ruka sipped her tea. "So how were you chosen to come on the
expedition?"
"Well for the longest time Gary's grandfather lobbied for the exploration of
the outer territories. Shortly after Proffesor Oak died the treaty was signed
and all barriers here were gone.
Gary then took over the project. When he got final approval to go he
called his first and best choice to help him lead the Expedition..."
She pointed to herself. "Me! I got the call at three in the morning too!"
Just then Dr.Joy awoke from her slumber and entered the main room
where Ruka and Trudie were. She trudged out of the room wearing Kal's
Chewbacca fuzzy slippers and an olive green shirt so long it hit her thighs.
She poured herself a cup of coffee, exchanged hellos and sat at the table.
"Nice nap?" Trudie asked.
Joy nodded. "Yup. I'll be heading out tonight with the guys on an overnight
hunt."
She looked out the window to see Ryer and Jett wrestling each other to death
in a patch of dust.
"And judging from the amount of testosterone out there it looks like survival
101 will be in session tonight."
"What do you mean?" Ruka asked with a puzzled look.
Trudie explained. "You see Ruka, aside from becoming a doctor Joy was also in
Special Forces in the army."
"Wow!" Ruka yelled.
Joy only slurped her coffee. She looked out the window at Jett, who was
perched on Ryer's chest strangling the rocket boy.
"Use pressure points!" she yelled.
Jett looked up at her giving Ryer a clear opening to slug him in the jaw.
"Dumb kid." Joy groaned.
Ruka blinked. "Y'know you two are probably the best role models a girl could
ask for!" she exclaimed.
Joy chukled. "Ruka were no different from you. We did nothing you couldn't do
if you wanted to."
Trudie continued. "Yeah. You've got to find your own strength. But one thing
has always been as certain in our life as it will be in yours..."
She was cut off as Kenny walked in with a Trikans (A three headed Ekans)
wrapped around his body with two heads on his shoulders and the middle one
on his head. They were all happily chewing on him.
"Uhhhhh, Trudie...Joy...I gotta problem here...."
"Our work is never done!" They said in unison.
Yaaaahaahahaha! I really like this story! You're good at this!
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