Chapter 5 - The arrival of Team Rocket

Kash, Weedle and I all turned around. We saw a young girl running up to us.

'Hey, you look familiar!' she said.

'Um,' said Kash. 'Do I?'

'Yeah, you look like my sister's friend, Ash Ketchum,' said the girl. Kash rolled his eyes.

'He's my brother,' he said.

'Really?' the girl asked. 'I'm Misty's sister. My name's Christy.'

'Hi Christy,' said Kash.

'I train grass pokemon,' said Christy. 'Unlike my stupid sisters who all like water pokemon!'

'What are you doing in the forest?' Kash asked.

'I'm on my way to Cerulean City,' said Christy. 'I have to visit my sisters.'

'Oh,' said Kash. 'I guess you could come with me...'

'I will!' said Christy.

'Um, well,' said Kash. 'Do you know the way out of the forest, because I don't?'

'No,' said Christy. 'I was expecting you would know...'

'Well I don't,' said Kash. 'So I suppose we're going to be walking around for a while.'

'Well come on!' said Christy. 'I don't want to be in this forest forever!'

Christy started walking.

'Hang on!' said Kash. Kash bent down and picked me up. I climbed onto his shoulders, and he hurried to catch up with Christy.

We had been walking for a long time when we heard a voice.

'Prepare for trouble!'

'And make it double!'

We turned around and saw two figures standing behind us in a cloud of smoke. The smoke cleared.

'To protect the world from devistation,' said the girl.

'To unite all peoples within our nation,' said the guy.

'To denounce the evils of truth and love,' said the girl.

'To extend our reach to the stars above,' said the guy.

'Sandy!' said the girl.

'Scott!' said the guy.

'Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light,' said Sandy.

'Surrender now or prepare to fight,' said Scott. A meowth appeared next to them.

'Meowth, that's right!' it said.

'Team Rocket!' said Christy. 'What do you want?'

'We're here to grab all the little pokemon from this forest,' said Sandy.

'If we give them to the boss, he'll surely give us a promotion!' said Scott.

'And he'll make me top cat again!' said Meowth.

'And how do you plan to take all the pokemon from this forest?' Kash asked.

'Well, we're going to start with that Weedle!' said Meowth, grabbing Weedle.

'No!' said Kash. 'That's my Weedle!'

'Leave it alone!' I shouted.

'A pikachu!' Sandy laughed. 'How pathetic!'

'Pikachu is not pathetic!' said Kash. 'Pikachu, show them! Thundershock!'

'PIKACHU!' I shouted, electricuting Sandy, Scott and Meowth. They screamed and Meowth dropped Weedle. It walked back over to me and Kash.

'PIKACHU!' I shouted again, electricuting Team Rocket even harder. They started running away.

'Alright, we beleive you!' said Scott.

'That pikachu - it's better than any pathetic forest pokemon!' said Sandy.

'Maybe we should catch it instead!' said Meowth. Their voices faded.

'Good work Pikachu!' said Kash

(-o-) PiKACHU (-o-)