Personally, this is my favourite chapter, simply because its so totally random and stupid! (like the rest, only funnier)
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Chapter twenty-two - Trouble In the Research Centre!
They followed the echo of the scream. They ran into a room with some stairs leading down. Zak ran tearing down the stairs. There was a splash and Zak yelled
"HEEEEEEELLLLLPPPPPPP!!!!!!"
"MEEEEE FIRST!" Shouted a voice from down below.
Duplica went slowly down the stairs just in time to see a blurred picture of John and Manic go tearing past along the riverside. (Which was a man-made river) They jumped into the black and murky waters. She looked puzzled. Jemima stood behind her. They were concentrating so hard, they'd forgotten all about poor Zak, clinging for his life to the bottom rung of the stairs and yelling blue murder. Jacko was climbing down from the ceiling with Ash, Jetstorm, Brock, Andre, Jacob and Sam on a rope. Zak lost his grip, but fortunately Ash was hanging upside down off the rope and grabbed Zak's hair. Zak screamed Black murder because he was in great pain, knowing the current was fast, the waves were high and his only lifeline was his hair. Plus, the person HOLDING his lifeline had to be the most idiotic boy on the planet. Not to mention the weediest. He heard Jetstorm sigh and also swing by his feet from the rope. He grabbed Zak's shoulders. 'GREAT!' thought Zak. 'Now I have the most untrustworthy person holding my other lifeline. Just GREAT!'
"Does anybody have a pen?" Asked Zak.
"NO! Why?"
"I want to write my will now. I have this strange feeling that I'M GONNA DIE!"
"YOU THINK YOU'RE GONNA DIE!" Chorused Atomic, Tyra, Ember, Misty, Topaz, Sillabub and Jig.
(Scribbles was drawing the "heroic" episode unfolding beneath her.)
"WE'RE GONNA HAVE A HERNIA! HOLDING YOU FAT LUMMOXES WEIGHT!" They all chorused again
"AND YOU THINK WE AREN'T?! IT HURTS HANGING UPSIDE DOWN OFF A ROPE! THE BLOOD IS RUSHING TO MY HEAD!" Shouted Jetstorm.
"EXCUSE ME! HELLO? EXCUSE ME! I'M GONNA DROWN DOWN HERE! I'M NOT GETTING ANY DRIER! AT LEAST YOU AREN'T GOING TO DROWN UP THERE!" Shouted Zak
"OH SHUT UP! DO YOU WANT THEM TO LEAVE YOU THERE?!" Shouted Jemima from the stairs.
The water near Zak boiled up and bubbled. A huge eye appeared from the depths. It was a Gyarados.
"Err… Guys?!" Started Duplica
"WHAT NOW DUPLICA! CAN'T YOU SEE WE'RE ARGUING?" Shouted the girls
"AND WE WANNA WIN!" Shouted the boys
"Yes dears… but I think you'd rather I told you this fact now." Said Duplica
"MAKE IT QUICK!" Chorused the girls
"OKAY! The lot of ya are about to be swallowed by a…" Started Duplica once more
"TELL US LATER!" Shouted the girls
"I think you'd rather know now…" Said Duplica
"THRILL US!" Shouted Sam
"You are about to be eaten alive by a Gyarados."
"OH, Is THAT all?" Said Jig "…AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!" Screamed all of them.
"Yeah, that's all. You can finish your argument now."
"GIVE ME A BLOODY PEN! I WANNA WRITE A WILL!" Shouted Zak at the top of his voice
"HERE YA GO!" Said Scribbles as she lobbed a pen at his head. It landed in his mouth.
"Okay then… PAPER PLEEEEASE!" Zak mumbled round the side of the pen.
"PAPER!? PAPER!? FROM MMMMYYYYY SKETCHBOOK! YOU'VE GOTTA BE KIDDING!" Shouted Scribbles.
"I don't QUITE think a piece of paper will stop us getting eaten will it Yak?" Said Sam
"I'M TOO YOUNG TO DIE!" Screamed Ash
"I HAVE SO MUCH MORE TO GIVE THIS WORLD!" Screamed Brock.
"NO YOU DON'T!" Shouted everybody
"Okay… If anybody survives this, can somebody tell my dad I actually DO owe him fifty quid." Said Andre
"YOU OWE HIM FIFTY SMACKERS!?" Shouted Topaz
"Err…. Not really… Ha-ha… ha" Said Andre.
"YOU STUPID IDIOT!" Shouted Topaz
"Even when you are all about to die you STILL argue! I won't be able to Rest in Peace in a graveyard! YOU'LL PROBABLY STILL BE ARGUING!" Shouted Jemima.
She noticed another Gyarados, towering above Manic and John. She also noticed Vicky, caught up on a pipe, desperately trying to stay afloat.
"So THAT'S why they jumped in!" She said to herself.
"Err… guys…? Hate to add another problem to our ever-growing problem pile… But… Actually… I'd LOVE to add another problem, so here goes: THERE'S ANOTHER GYARADOS ABOUT TO EAT MANIC AND JOHN! AAAAANNNDDD! Doncha just love these problems? VICTORIA FELL IN TOO! THEY ARE HER ONLY CHANCE OF SURVIVAL!" Shouted Jemima above the noise.
She suddenly had a thought. Why on earth hadn't she thought of it earlier!
"GUYS…!? You know these little red and grey-white balls on our belts? USE THEM YOU IDIOTS!" She yelled
"Wait a minute! I've got Victoria's Pokéballs! I was supposed to take her Pokémon…. To the… Pokémon Centre for… their… monthly… check-up… which I'll do tomorrow… yes tomorrow.."
"WE WON'T BE ALIVE TOMORROW UNLESS YOU SEND OUT THAT BLOODY GYARADOS OF HERS! Y'KNOW! THE HUGE ONE!" Shouted Jetstorm.
"OH YEAH! That'd be a good idea wouldn't it?" Said Jemima
"POKÉBALL! GO!"
"That doesn't look like a Gyarados to Me... that looks like a SQUIRTLE!"
"WELL I'M SORRY MISTER HOITY-TOITY!" Shouted Jemima
"POKÉBALL! GO!"
"Oh yeah.. SQUIRTLE! RETURN!"
"HATE TO STATE THE OBVIOUS, BUT THAT'S A JYNX YOU NUMBSKULL!"
"SHUT UP YOU LAME BRAIN! I'M DOING MY BEST!"
"JYNX! RETURN!"
"POKÉBALL! GO!"
"AT LAST! THIRD TIME LUCKY!" Shouted Jetstorm
"OH JUST SHUT YOUR GIANT TRAP! Y'KNOW? THE HUGE HOLE IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR FACE?" Shouted Jemima
"GYARADOS! GET RID OF THAT PEST!"
Gyarados picked up Ash as if to say 'This pest?'
"NO NO! NOT THAT ONE! YOU CAN PLAY FRISBEE WITH HIM LATER! THE GYARADOS-SIZED PEST, NOT THE TINY, PUNY ONE! … WAAAIIITTT A SECOND! I insulted myself there didn't I…" Said Jemima as she trailed off into thought.
Victoria's Gyarados put Ash down and turned to the puny Gyarados beneath him. The Gyarados swam off, no questions asked as fast as it could go.
"RIGHT! LET'S TACKLE THE NEXT PROBLEM! GET RID OF THAT ONE!"
"Gyarados? Gyarados? HELLOOOOO!?" Shouted Jemima. The Gyarados was ignoring her. He picked Ash up as if to say ' Play now? Please?'
Ash screamed girlishly. The Gyarados decided it wanted nothing more to do with this little toy any more. It made funny noises.
"GET THAT GYARADOS!" shouted everybody "YOU KNOW THE ONE! THAT ONE! OVER THERE!"
The Gyarados swam towards the other Gyarados and bit its neck. The other Gyarados swam off.
Victoria's Gyarados snatched its Pokéball out of Jemima's hand and made a beeline for Victoria.
"PHEW! THAT'S OVER!" Said the girls holding the rope. Jemima knew what was going to happen now. She ran up the stairs and through to the main room. She paused, then ran through another pair of doors and down a set of stairs. She was just where she wanted to be. Down river. The girls relaxed and dropped the rope by mistake. The rope got caught in the current, and they all struggled to stay afloat. As the rope whooshed past, Jemima grabbed the end. But the current was too fast and she was pulled in! She screamed, but fortunately Jacko had managed to grab the bottom of the stairs. He was struggling and straining to hold on. Jemima made her way up the rope, underwater. She reached the stairs and pulled herself up. She stretched out her hand to Sam. He grabbed her hand and she pulled him up. He took hold of the rope and Jemima pulled Jacko out. Jacko hung onto the stairs and the rope with Sam while Jemima and Brock pulled the others up to safety. They sighed, but Jemima realised, Vicky was almost drowned! Fortunately, the stairs were near the bank, so she jumped onto the bank and ran over to Victoria. Victoria's Gyarados got there first and put her on its head. But it wasn't banking on such a strong current and got washed away. Jemima ran out to the pipe to try and catch Vicky, but she slipped off and landed in the water. Jacko grabbed her foot and she frowned at him. He pulled her out of the water, with Brock's help and she remembered John and Manic. Jacko was a very strong swimmer, so amidst protests from Jemima and Brock he took his leather jacket off to reveal a sleeveless black top, jumped in and swam over to John and Manic. Manic's T-shirt was caught up on a wire and John's collar was also caught on a small pipe. He climbed out the other side and pulled them free and out of the water. They lay on the floor coughing for a while, but they soon got up and began giving each other the shaky evils. Then they started running round flapping their arms about like headless chickens shouting "Victoria! VICKY!" Jacko had just managed to sort his hair out, noticed Manic teetering on the edge of the water and flapping about, trying not to fall in. John ran straight into the back of him and they both fell in.
"AWH MAAN! I'll never get my hair back to normal!"
There was a shout of
"NORMAL? YOUR HAIR? NORMAL?" From Jig
Jacko sighed and jumped in. He pushed them both out of the water and told them to stay put. Immediately after he was out of the water, they were running around again.
"ANYBODY GOT A ROPE?" He shouted.
"WE DID, BUT IT GOT WASHED OFF IN THAT DIRECTION AND I'M NOT GONNA GET IT BACK!" Shouted Jetstorm.
"YEAH! IF WE DON'T DROWN, WE'LL BE EATEN BY THE GYARADOS AND IF WE DON'T GET EATEN WE'LL BE WASHED OUT TO SEA!" Shouted Andre
"I KNOW! SAM? WHY DON'T YOU GO!"
Sam scowled at Jacko. But then he burst out laughing.
"WHAT?" Asked Jacko
"YOUR…! DOO!"
"Huh?" Mumbled Jacko.
He pulled a mirror out from the depths of his trouser pocket.
"AARRGGHH!" He yelled.
His hair was bent over and curling at the edges. He looked rather like a red pineapple! He narrowed his eyes and saw his jacket floating off! He jumped in and dragged it out of the water. He pulled a Horsea from one pocket, a Goldeen from the other and from inside he produced his comb! He brushed his hair up so it was in his usual spike again.
"Is it you guys that make my hair get muffed up?" he asked
A laugh came from nowhere.
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Chapter twenty-two - Trouble In the Research Centre!
They followed the echo of the scream. They ran into a room with some stairs leading down. Zak ran tearing down the stairs. There was a splash and Zak yelled
"HEEEEEEELLLLLPPPPPPP!!!!!!"
"MEEEEE FIRST!" Shouted a voice from down below.
Duplica went slowly down the stairs just in time to see a blurred picture of John and Manic go tearing past along the riverside. (Which was a man-made river) They jumped into the black and murky waters. She looked puzzled. Jemima stood behind her. They were concentrating so hard, they'd forgotten all about poor Zak, clinging for his life to the bottom rung of the stairs and yelling blue murder. Jacko was climbing down from the ceiling with Ash, Jetstorm, Brock, Andre, Jacob and Sam on a rope. Zak lost his grip, but fortunately Ash was hanging upside down off the rope and grabbed Zak's hair. Zak screamed Black murder because he was in great pain, knowing the current was fast, the waves were high and his only lifeline was his hair. Plus, the person HOLDING his lifeline had to be the most idiotic boy on the planet. Not to mention the weediest. He heard Jetstorm sigh and also swing by his feet from the rope. He grabbed Zak's shoulders. 'GREAT!' thought Zak. 'Now I have the most untrustworthy person holding my other lifeline. Just GREAT!'
"Does anybody have a pen?" Asked Zak.
"NO! Why?"
"I want to write my will now. I have this strange feeling that I'M GONNA DIE!"
"YOU THINK YOU'RE GONNA DIE!" Chorused Atomic, Tyra, Ember, Misty, Topaz, Sillabub and Jig.
(Scribbles was drawing the "heroic" episode unfolding beneath her.)
"WE'RE GONNA HAVE A HERNIA! HOLDING YOU FAT LUMMOXES WEIGHT!" They all chorused again
"AND YOU THINK WE AREN'T?! IT HURTS HANGING UPSIDE DOWN OFF A ROPE! THE BLOOD IS RUSHING TO MY HEAD!" Shouted Jetstorm.
"EXCUSE ME! HELLO? EXCUSE ME! I'M GONNA DROWN DOWN HERE! I'M NOT GETTING ANY DRIER! AT LEAST YOU AREN'T GOING TO DROWN UP THERE!" Shouted Zak
"OH SHUT UP! DO YOU WANT THEM TO LEAVE YOU THERE?!" Shouted Jemima from the stairs.
The water near Zak boiled up and bubbled. A huge eye appeared from the depths. It was a Gyarados.
"Err… Guys?!" Started Duplica
"WHAT NOW DUPLICA! CAN'T YOU SEE WE'RE ARGUING?" Shouted the girls
"AND WE WANNA WIN!" Shouted the boys
"Yes dears… but I think you'd rather I told you this fact now." Said Duplica
"MAKE IT QUICK!" Chorused the girls
"OKAY! The lot of ya are about to be swallowed by a…" Started Duplica once more
"TELL US LATER!" Shouted the girls
"I think you'd rather know now…" Said Duplica
"THRILL US!" Shouted Sam
"You are about to be eaten alive by a Gyarados."
"OH, Is THAT all?" Said Jig "…AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!" Screamed all of them.
"Yeah, that's all. You can finish your argument now."
"GIVE ME A BLOODY PEN! I WANNA WRITE A WILL!" Shouted Zak at the top of his voice
"HERE YA GO!" Said Scribbles as she lobbed a pen at his head. It landed in his mouth.
"Okay then… PAPER PLEEEEASE!" Zak mumbled round the side of the pen.
"PAPER!? PAPER!? FROM MMMMYYYYY SKETCHBOOK! YOU'VE GOTTA BE KIDDING!" Shouted Scribbles.
"I don't QUITE think a piece of paper will stop us getting eaten will it Yak?" Said Sam
"I'M TOO YOUNG TO DIE!" Screamed Ash
"I HAVE SO MUCH MORE TO GIVE THIS WORLD!" Screamed Brock.
"NO YOU DON'T!" Shouted everybody
"Okay… If anybody survives this, can somebody tell my dad I actually DO owe him fifty quid." Said Andre
"YOU OWE HIM FIFTY SMACKERS!?" Shouted Topaz
"Err…. Not really… Ha-ha… ha" Said Andre.
"YOU STUPID IDIOT!" Shouted Topaz
"Even when you are all about to die you STILL argue! I won't be able to Rest in Peace in a graveyard! YOU'LL PROBABLY STILL BE ARGUING!" Shouted Jemima.
She noticed another Gyarados, towering above Manic and John. She also noticed Vicky, caught up on a pipe, desperately trying to stay afloat.
"So THAT'S why they jumped in!" She said to herself.
"Err… guys…? Hate to add another problem to our ever-growing problem pile… But… Actually… I'd LOVE to add another problem, so here goes: THERE'S ANOTHER GYARADOS ABOUT TO EAT MANIC AND JOHN! AAAAANNNDDD! Doncha just love these problems? VICTORIA FELL IN TOO! THEY ARE HER ONLY CHANCE OF SURVIVAL!" Shouted Jemima above the noise.
She suddenly had a thought. Why on earth hadn't she thought of it earlier!
"GUYS…!? You know these little red and grey-white balls on our belts? USE THEM YOU IDIOTS!" She yelled
"Wait a minute! I've got Victoria's Pokéballs! I was supposed to take her Pokémon…. To the… Pokémon Centre for… their… monthly… check-up… which I'll do tomorrow… yes tomorrow.."
"WE WON'T BE ALIVE TOMORROW UNLESS YOU SEND OUT THAT BLOODY GYARADOS OF HERS! Y'KNOW! THE HUGE ONE!" Shouted Jetstorm.
"OH YEAH! That'd be a good idea wouldn't it?" Said Jemima
"POKÉBALL! GO!"
"That doesn't look like a Gyarados to Me... that looks like a SQUIRTLE!"
"WELL I'M SORRY MISTER HOITY-TOITY!" Shouted Jemima
"POKÉBALL! GO!"
"Oh yeah.. SQUIRTLE! RETURN!"
"HATE TO STATE THE OBVIOUS, BUT THAT'S A JYNX YOU NUMBSKULL!"
"SHUT UP YOU LAME BRAIN! I'M DOING MY BEST!"
"JYNX! RETURN!"
"POKÉBALL! GO!"
"AT LAST! THIRD TIME LUCKY!" Shouted Jetstorm
"OH JUST SHUT YOUR GIANT TRAP! Y'KNOW? THE HUGE HOLE IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR FACE?" Shouted Jemima
"GYARADOS! GET RID OF THAT PEST!"
Gyarados picked up Ash as if to say 'This pest?'
"NO NO! NOT THAT ONE! YOU CAN PLAY FRISBEE WITH HIM LATER! THE GYARADOS-SIZED PEST, NOT THE TINY, PUNY ONE! … WAAAIIITTT A SECOND! I insulted myself there didn't I…" Said Jemima as she trailed off into thought.
Victoria's Gyarados put Ash down and turned to the puny Gyarados beneath him. The Gyarados swam off, no questions asked as fast as it could go.
"RIGHT! LET'S TACKLE THE NEXT PROBLEM! GET RID OF THAT ONE!"
"Gyarados? Gyarados? HELLOOOOO!?" Shouted Jemima. The Gyarados was ignoring her. He picked Ash up as if to say ' Play now? Please?'
Ash screamed girlishly. The Gyarados decided it wanted nothing more to do with this little toy any more. It made funny noises.
"GET THAT GYARADOS!" shouted everybody "YOU KNOW THE ONE! THAT ONE! OVER THERE!"
The Gyarados swam towards the other Gyarados and bit its neck. The other Gyarados swam off.
Victoria's Gyarados snatched its Pokéball out of Jemima's hand and made a beeline for Victoria.
"PHEW! THAT'S OVER!" Said the girls holding the rope. Jemima knew what was going to happen now. She ran up the stairs and through to the main room. She paused, then ran through another pair of doors and down a set of stairs. She was just where she wanted to be. Down river. The girls relaxed and dropped the rope by mistake. The rope got caught in the current, and they all struggled to stay afloat. As the rope whooshed past, Jemima grabbed the end. But the current was too fast and she was pulled in! She screamed, but fortunately Jacko had managed to grab the bottom of the stairs. He was struggling and straining to hold on. Jemima made her way up the rope, underwater. She reached the stairs and pulled herself up. She stretched out her hand to Sam. He grabbed her hand and she pulled him up. He took hold of the rope and Jemima pulled Jacko out. Jacko hung onto the stairs and the rope with Sam while Jemima and Brock pulled the others up to safety. They sighed, but Jemima realised, Vicky was almost drowned! Fortunately, the stairs were near the bank, so she jumped onto the bank and ran over to Victoria. Victoria's Gyarados got there first and put her on its head. But it wasn't banking on such a strong current and got washed away. Jemima ran out to the pipe to try and catch Vicky, but she slipped off and landed in the water. Jacko grabbed her foot and she frowned at him. He pulled her out of the water, with Brock's help and she remembered John and Manic. Jacko was a very strong swimmer, so amidst protests from Jemima and Brock he took his leather jacket off to reveal a sleeveless black top, jumped in and swam over to John and Manic. Manic's T-shirt was caught up on a wire and John's collar was also caught on a small pipe. He climbed out the other side and pulled them free and out of the water. They lay on the floor coughing for a while, but they soon got up and began giving each other the shaky evils. Then they started running round flapping their arms about like headless chickens shouting "Victoria! VICKY!" Jacko had just managed to sort his hair out, noticed Manic teetering on the edge of the water and flapping about, trying not to fall in. John ran straight into the back of him and they both fell in.
"AWH MAAN! I'll never get my hair back to normal!"
There was a shout of
"NORMAL? YOUR HAIR? NORMAL?" From Jig
Jacko sighed and jumped in. He pushed them both out of the water and told them to stay put. Immediately after he was out of the water, they were running around again.
"ANYBODY GOT A ROPE?" He shouted.
"WE DID, BUT IT GOT WASHED OFF IN THAT DIRECTION AND I'M NOT GONNA GET IT BACK!" Shouted Jetstorm.
"YEAH! IF WE DON'T DROWN, WE'LL BE EATEN BY THE GYARADOS AND IF WE DON'T GET EATEN WE'LL BE WASHED OUT TO SEA!" Shouted Andre
"I KNOW! SAM? WHY DON'T YOU GO!"
Sam scowled at Jacko. But then he burst out laughing.
"WHAT?" Asked Jacko
"YOUR…! DOO!"
"Huh?" Mumbled Jacko.
He pulled a mirror out from the depths of his trouser pocket.
"AARRGGHH!" He yelled.
His hair was bent over and curling at the edges. He looked rather like a red pineapple! He narrowed his eyes and saw his jacket floating off! He jumped in and dragged it out of the water. He pulled a Horsea from one pocket, a Goldeen from the other and from inside he produced his comb! He brushed his hair up so it was in his usual spike again.
"Is it you guys that make my hair get muffed up?" he asked
A laugh came from nowhere.