AN: hi! This is the 4^th chapter of Mastermind Matchmaker, AKA Brock! Yes, FOURTH chapter. I seriously can't believe it. I never thought it would go this long...and there's still SO much more to go! Well, anyway, in this chapter the fun and games begin! (Hence, the title.)

Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon. Some really rich cooperation/company does. WAA!

Mastermind Matchmaker, AKA Brock

Chapter 3: Fun and Games

It had been a week since Brock took off. Ash and Misty had survived...barely. Every once in a while, the got into a heated argument over this and that. Luckily, an "incident" hadn't happened for days now, and they both seemed to have a lot of time on their hand to think about WHERE the HECK Brock WAS! [erm...excuse me.] On this certain day, they were both wondering together about Brock's little "task" for them.

"Hey Ash... How do you suppose we're supposed to play matchmaker?"

"I dunno...match them?" For this our unlucky hero got a bash on the head...but he's dense anyways.

"No!! I mean, how are we supposed to get them together?"

"Well, maybe the next time we see them, we could get them into a romantic yet uncomfortable situation...?" Misty stared: it was unlike Ash to think up any sort a witty plan, yet alone know the meaning of the word "romantic". Apparently Ash caught her stare and knew exactly what she was staring at/about.

"What?!? I do actually think about other things beside Pokemon!"

"Could've fooled me..." Misty muttered, but Ash (unfortunately) heard her.

"HEY! WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?!?" Ash calmed down and said, "Well I've done a lot of thinking about this whole cupid-role-playing thing...and I think I really would like to get it started cause that way-'' Ash stopped abruptly. `Jeez... that was close...'

"Because...?" Misty asked, curious that Ash would want to do anything having to do with romance.

"Uh...because...eheheh...um, I really wanna see Brock again!" He laughed nervously, pushing his two index fingers together.

"Oh." Misty really didn't believe him, but she let it slide. `Next time,' she thought, `he won't be so lucky.' Then she said again, " So what will the `romantic yet uncomfortable' situation be?"

"I dunno."

"Well you're supposed to know!"

"Hey! You should do some work too! You're the one who at Mt. Moon said, `oh, it's so romantic!' or something like that!"

"Hmm. Good point." Misty colored a bit at that memory.

"Ha!" Misty was going to retaliate to that "ha!", but she decided not to, and just kept her cool.

"Okay. So we have to think of some kick-butt matchmaker plan..."

*Team Rocket*

At the same time...

"YAAAWN..." James, Jesse, and Meowth had decided to sleep in this morning. After all, their current job was to get the twerps together. I mean, how hard could it possibly be? Well...

Jesse stretched her arms and smacked her lips. "Mmmm...so peaceful and quiet..." She glanced over at James and Meowth, who were sprawled across their sleeping bags. She smiled. For some reason, she felt that today, everything was going to go their way. Who knows? Maybe it will.

Her mind wandered to Brock's request. `Oh well,' she thought, `James seemed pretty into it.' Almost on cue, as if he knew that Jesse was thinking about him, James got up slowly and yawned. He stopped abruptly when he saw Jesse staring at him.

"Heheh." He laughed nervously, not knowing at all why Jesse seemed to intent on her gazing. Suddenly she smiled. James, on the other hand, nearly had a heart attack. `What is she smiling about? The prospect of torturing me?'

"Hey Jess, what're ya smilin' all about?" Jesse whipped her head around to find that Meowth was looking at her very amused.

"Oh nothing." She smiled again. James thought that something was definitely up.

"You sure, Jess?"

"Well...actually... I was just thinking about all the tricks we could play on the twerps!" She said quickly. She could have just left it at "oh nothing", but then she figured that Meowth would guess what, or rather WHO, she was smiling at/ about.

"Ooooh! I wanna play a trick! It's gotta be romantic, dramatic, and put them in a sweet yet uncomfortable position!" James' romantic side immediately took over. Jesse smirked this time.

"You got it, James."

"So ya guys...what do ya tink we should do?"

"Oh...I have plenty of ideas..." Jesse grinned evilly.

"Could we have breakfast first?"

*Twer-I mean, Ash and Misty*

Ash and Misty were scheming. They were scheming- yup, you guessed it- their " JJ Project" ( Jessed and James Project). Pikachu had left earlier that day, supposedly to find where Team Rocket was and keep and eye on them. Ash had objected at first, but was finally convinced by the inference that TR most likely wouldn't be able to capture Pikachu, because unless they had come into possession of a cheap robot it was nearly impossible for Pikachu to get caught and remain that way. Er, make that a VERY cheap robot.

"Do you really think this'll work, Ash?"

"Of course it will, Mist!"

"But Noctowl might get tired and never come back...or TR might catch him!"

"Same went for Pikachu, Misty, but I let him go."

"Fine."

Ash and Misty were sending out Noctowl to find Team Rocket. They hadn't really come up with a plan yet, but they figured they could just go with the flow. Sort of an impromptu thing. I mean, Jesse and James would provide the material...Ash and Misty would just aggravate it. Or so they hoped.

"CEAAW!" Noctowl let out a scream as it set off to find Jesse and James from the sky. Ask and Misty quickly followed, making sure that the bird pokemon remained in view. The sun was bright and they squinted their eyes to make out the silhouette of the flying ally, but to no avail. After glancing wildly around at their surroundings, Ash and Misty quickly came to the realization that they were...lost. `Perfect... Just perfect.'

AN: That last thought was a sarcastic one, kay? It didn't really sound very sarcastic, so I had to tell you. Stay tuned for the next part of Mastermind Matchmaker, AKA Brock! And I just realized that Brock barely gets to make any appearances anymore, so the next chapter will have him in it. Ja ne!