PoKéMoN
Poison Pairings – A Team Rocket adventure with a hint of QueerShipping
By BenRG
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Author's Notes
There is no great inspiration for this story. It is the result of a debate on the Serebii.net Forums about whether or not Team Rocket are strong Pokémon Trainers and what (if anything) would improve their performance. This debate, and the plot of the Season 2 episode 'Wherefore Art Thou, Pokémon?' inspired this good-natured little tale.
This story is set about two-thirds of the way through Ash's Johto League journey, long after 'Forest Grumps' and shortly after 'The Heartbreak of Brock'.
QueerShipping is the belief that, if Jessie and James were ever to have a romantic relationship, Jessie would be the one wearing the pants.
Censor: PG – for some adult concepts and a little innuendo about unconventional relationships
Ages: Ash is 13; Misty is 14½; Brock is 18; Jessie and James are both 26.
Epilogue
The clean-up was well advanced and Ash, Misty and Brock were ready to go their way again, on the road to the Johto League. "I'm sorry that they got away with those two Nidoran, sir," Ash said to Michael.
"Don't be, Ash," the master breeder replied. "Those two Pokémon were meant for them, I know it." The man grinned at the boy and his pretty tomboy travelling companion. "Maybe, after the League, you can come back and we might be able to find Nidoran that are right for you." Ash and Misty looked at each other, blushed brightly and looked the other way.
"As if," Misty murmured, looking too pleased to be angry.
"There is one thing I don't understand about this whole thing, though," Michael said. "The Nidoran always match genders with their Trainers when they bond." Brock looked at the man thoughtfully as he elaborated. "Male Nidoran always go with men and female Nidoran with women. Yet Jessie got a male and James a female… I just don't get it."
Brock grinned as he thought back on all the times his friends and he had interacted with the two Rockets, both as friend and as adversary. He thought of how strangely imposing, dominant and almost male that Jessie was, and how yielding and almost feminine that James could be. "Well, I wouldn't worry about it if I were you," he replied. "I think the Nidoran got it just right."
~*~*~*~
Out in the forest somewhere, Jessie and James were getting themselves back together after yet another blasting off. "You shouldn't lose heart," Jessie was lecturing Spike. "If you want to be part of Team Rocket, you just have to keep bouncing back! We'll beat the Twerps one day, you'll see!"
"Nido!" Spike replied. He turned and walked over to Bunny, who was sitting in front of James as the lavender-haired man fed her a Potion. Jessie watched as the male Nidoran nuzzled his mate's cheek and the two started looking at each other in adoration. A smile touched her lips as she watched the way that James cared for his Pokémon. Despite everything, despite the silly gaffes and the fouled-up plans, she still found James a fascinating person. Could he be the one who would heal her? Would she heal him at the same time?
She walked over and touched James on the shoulder. James covered her hand with his own. "We'd better find where the balloon crashed," she said.
"Lead on, Jessie," James said, feeling once again the appreciation that he always felt for Jessie's indomitable strength. Spike and Bunny exchanged a significant glance before their new Trainers recalled them to their Pokéballs and, with Meowth in tow, set off once again in pursuit of the Twerps and in pursuit of glory in the service of Team Rocket.
The End