Giovanni sat back in the
seat of his large fancy car. Persian stretched out in the front seat, yowling
every now and then just to freak out the driver. Jessie sat beside Giovanni,
James and Meowth seated across from them. They rode in a semi-comfortable
silence through the roads from Viridian to Cerulean.
The sisters of Cerulean
City Gym had called Giovanni earlier to tell him that they had too many
other appointments to travel to Viridian for a battle, but if he wanted
to he was welcome to come to their gym instead. They had hoped he wouldn't
want to. Now that Giovanni wasn't a gym leader anymore, they felt they
weren't obligated to follow all of his requests. Plus he was just plain
scary.
"Okay, Misty, we have,
like, this ex-gym leader guy coming today for, like, some kind of battle."
Misty's aqua eyes looked up from her cup of morning
coffee. Her sister, Daisy, stood in front of her, hands on her hips.
"Like, did you hear me
at all, Misty?"
"Yes, yes, I heard you."
She smirked slightly.
"It's hard not to with
your loud voice."
Daisy smirked back and thumped her little sister
on the forehead.
"Like, sour grapes, Misty."
Misty rolled her eyes.
"Whatever. Anyway, you
all can do what you want. I'm taking Prima to the aquarium today."
Daisy frowned slightly.
"Oh. You're, like, going
out with Prima again?"
"Yes, I am."
She paused and smirked.
"Jealous that she likes
me more than you?"
Daisy scoffed and turned on her heels to walk out.
"Like, don't be ridiculous."
Misty smiled to herself and sipped her coffee.
Prima, her idol, had moved to Cerulean a few weeks ago to start a Pokemon/Human
Yoga Class. She had remembered Misty from when they had met in the Orange
Islands with Ash and Tracey, and the two started hanging out together,
much to the shock and dismay of Misty's sisters. And Misty had to admit,
over the short period of a few days, her feelings of admiration for Prima
had grown into something much deeper. At first, she wanted to deny it.
I mean, she had liked Ash and Rudy, after all. How could she feel this
way about another girl? But she didn't even try that anymore. There was
no denying it; Misty was in love with Prima. Once she had come to terms
with her feelings, it wasn't long before she found out that the feelings
were mutual. Ever since they have been sheltering a quiet, but wonderful
relationship. At first, she thought about Ash…but eventually she came to
realize that he was a lost cause. Ash just wasn't the type to have a romantic
relationship with. His whole life was dedicated to pokémon, and
Misty understood that now.
Wiping away these thoughts
with a shake of her head, Misty stood and left the kitchen to go to the
aquarium to meet Prima.
"Like, wait… You don't
want us to, like, be in the room during the battle?"
The long pool in the Cerulean gym stretched out
across the room. Giovanni faced the three sisters who were looking at him
with questioning eyes.
"Yes, you see, I need
this battle for an experiment of sorts. But I don't want anyone around,
you know, just in case."
"Like, an experiment?"
Lily and Violet asked, exchanging glances.
Daisy clutched her pokeball tightly.
"Like, nothing will happen
to, like, our Dewgong, will it?" she asked nervously.
Giovanni smiled at them.
"Oh, of course not. I
assure you, your Dewgong will be just fine."
"Well…like, okay…" Daisy
relented, handing him the pokeball.
Giovanni watched the girls walk out of the battle
arena and smirked down at the pokeball.
Dewgong swam around in
a little circle in the pool, watching Jessie kneel beside the pool with
its big eyes. She averted her eyes, knowing if she looked at it, she would
buckle. She sighed and tried to concentrate her mind back to those dreams
and what she had done to that warehouse. Dewgong was trying to figure out
why it was battling with a human…but that's what it had been told by Giovanni.
She wasn't doing anything yet, so it figured it had to make the first attack.
"Dewgong!" it cried out,
letting out an Aurora Beam.
It struck Jessie and knocked her over; she wasn't
expecting the blow. Before she had time to catch her breathe, she was slipping
into darkness. She felt the now familiar power build inside of her as it
took over.
James and Meowth watched
through a window. They had only seen Jessie activated like this once, but
it had only been for a split second. But this time, they got to see more.
It was simply terrifying. As awful as Jessie could be, they had never dreamed
they would see her like this. The rays and the power she emitted were amazing…and
that poor Dewgong…
"Jimmy, dis is horrible…"
Meowth whispered. "Dere's gotta be somethin'…"
James couldn't speak. His eyes were glued to the
battle as Jessie and the Dewgong attacked each other. They widened as Jessie
slipped into the water with Dewgong and the water began to glow.
"Jimmy, get down!" Meowth
yelled.
They feel to the ground, as Jessie's power was
unleashed, glass and wall and water exploding everywhere.
Misty and Prima were leaning
against the railing outside of the aquarium, just listening to the breeze
when the explosion happened. Misty grabbed onto Prima's arm as the ground
shook slightly under their feet.
"What is that?"
Misty was suddenly very afraid.
"That came from the gym!"
Quickly, James and Meowth
found Jessie, still out of consciousness. They could hear running footsteps
and police sirens on the way. Cradling her in his arms, James left the
gym and ran into the shadows outside where the car was parked. Meowth pulled
the knocked out, but still breathing Dewgong out from the destroyed pool
and stroked it's tangled fur a little with his paw before following his
blue-haired comrade. He came to a quick stop as he saw James standing completely
still. Misty and Prima stood before him.
"Team Rocket," Misty gasped,
out of breath from running there. "You must have something to do with this!
What have you done to our gym?!"
James gave no response, and neither did Meowth.
Prima's eyes fell on the woman in James' arms, but she said nothing. The
driver opened the door to the car and James and Meowth climbed in, ignoring
Misty. She ran up to the door and banged on the window.
"Tell me what you have
done to our gym!"
Meowth rolled down the window a little bit.
"Look, dis is none of
your concern and it's very complicated. So just stay out of it."
Misty seemed to notice Jessie for the first time
now.
"What…what's wrong with
Jessie?"
"We ain't gonna explain
nothin' to yous. Just scram, twerp."
Misty was about to say something, but Prima walked
over to James' side of the car. He slowly rolled down his window too. She
looked at him with her deep eyes.
"Let us in," she said.
James looked away.
"Let us in," she repeated.
"I can tell there is something wrong with your friend. If you don't let
us in and tell us now, we will go to the police and turn in your names
and you all will be imprisoned. And by the looks of it, that is not the
best thing for her. Now let us in."
"Prima, they're Team Rocket!"
Misty cried. "Talking and trying to work with them is not going to work!"
"Just shut da hell up!"
Meowth yelled at her. "I'm gettin' sick of yous! You don't…" He looked
over at Jessie and tears started to form in his midnight blue eyes. "You
don't know shit about us!"
Misty couldn't think of what to say. James looked
at Prima and, after a moment's hesitation, opened the door to let her and
Misty in.
End of Chapter Three.