Chapter 8: In Which There is a Phanpy, but Not for Very Long
Pikachu, now ruler of the world, decided it was time that the people-
((Sounds of a scuffle in thebackground. PIKACHU, GIVE ME BACK MY STORY!!!))
"Pi (No)." Pikachu thundershocked the author, accidentally scrambling something important in her computer. The rest of the chapter became gibberish.
((Later, on a different computer- Shh, I'm hiding from Pikachu. I don't think he'll be in this chapter...))
It was quite late when they arrived in Olivine City, so they spent the night in the Pokémon Center there. The next morning, they set off for Goldenrod, hoping to at least reach Ecruteak before nightfall. And for most of the day this seemed like a fair enough goal.
But then, at about 2 pm, they saw a Phanpy in the middle of Route 38.
"Hey, what's a Phanpy doing on Route 38?" Brock wondered.
"That doesn't matter. I'm going to catch it!" exclaimed Ash.
"Never mind catching it," Tracey said, "I'm going to draw it."
"Okay," said Ash, ignoring Tracey, "I'm going to use my Eevee!"
"You haven't got one," Misty informed him.
"Yes I do!"
"You set it free, remember?"
"Oh. Yeah. I did, didn't I? So... what Pokémon do I have, then?"
"Um... you've got a Rattata, and.... let's see... a Magikarp and a Metapod. And of course there's Pikachu."
"Okay. Go... Rattata!"
The Phanpy looked at the Rattata blankly.
"Has it got any attacks?" Ash asked Misty.
She shrugged. "I don't know, it's your Pokémon. Have you taught it any?"
"Um... Rattata, use Tackle!" It did a pathetically small amount of damage.
"Okay, use Tackle again!"
"This," Misty observed, "is going to be very boring."
Two hours later...
"Rattata! Use Tackle again!"
The Pokémon grumbled, but followed Ash's command, for reasons unknown to everyone, probably including the Rattata. Ash finally deemed the Phanpy beaten up enough, and threw a Pokéball at it. "Pokéball, go!" he called.
Everyone held their breath and crossed their fingers, and prated that they weren't about to be subjected to another two hours of the torture they had just undergone.
"Yeah! I got it!" cried Ash excitedly.
...And there was much rejoicing.
"Wow," said Ash, "my friends aren't usually this happy for me when I catch a Pokémon. Cool."
But in their state of ignorant bliss, they didn't know that a far worse danger was about to find them.
Floating out of the giant plot hole through which the Phanpy had tumbled a bit more than two hours before was an extremely scary Pokémon.
It was cute. It was cuddly-looking. And worst of all, it was pink—the color ofEvil. It stalked towards our heroes, who were walking along happily- well, maybe not happily, exactly, but certainly unaware of their impending doom.
Not for long.
"AAAH NO NOT AGAIN NOT THE JIGGLYPUFF!!!! MUST GET AWAY!!!! MUST GET HELP!!!! QUICK BEFORE IT SINGS!!!!"
Tracey gave Ash an odd look. "I think I'll draw it," he announced.
"Surprise, surprise," muttered Misty.
"Oh, please, we don't have time for sitting around and drawing stupid Jigglypuffs," said Brynna, attempting to continue down the road.
"Jigglypi," corrected Brock.
"Pie?" said Ash. "Did someone say something about pie?"
"No," said Misty. "Nobody did."
"Oh," said Ash, looking quite disappointed.
"Come on," insisted Brynna, "we have to keep going. We've wasted enough time already." She glared at Ash.
"Why does all of this sound familiar to me?" Misty asked.
"Probably because we said it all already back in Chapter 5," answered Brynna.
"...It was a rhetorical question," Misty told her, looking at Brynna as if she were crazy.
"Sorry."
Tracey, who was sketching, ignored all that was going on around him.
The Jigglypuff cleared its throat.
"Jigg-a-lee, jiggly jigg-a-lee pu-uff!/Jigg-a-lee, jiggle jigg-a-lee-puff!/Jigg-a-lee, jiggly jigg-a-lee pu-uff!/Jigg-a-lee, jiggle jigg-a-lee-puff!/Jigg-a/lee puff!/Jiggly, a jigg-a-lee-puffpuff!/Jigg-a/lee puff!/ Jigg-a-lee, a jigglypu-u-uff!" The jigglypuff floated around happily, singing its little song.
"'S funny," said Brynna, sounding half asleep (which she was). "Now it's singing the Johto Journeys theme song. Y'know, 'Everybody wants to be a master, everybody wants to show their skills...'"
"Mhmm," said Brock, who was also half-asleep and not really listening.
"Jigglyjiggly jiggly pu-uff!" sang the jigglypuff.
"It's a whole new world we live in..." Brynna sang along with it, trailing off sleepily as she yawned and finally drifted off to sleep. Her last conscious thought was, 'Wonder how it got here from Erehwon Island?'
Though actually, that's not quite accurate. That was her second-to-last conscious thought. Her actual last conscious thought was, 'If that Jigglypuff colors on my glasses again, it DIES."