Lights…Camera…CUT!
by MeowthMix

The third installment of the classic MeowthMix fanfic!

LIGHTS CAMERA CUT: Part 3

"Somehow I don't think this script will be any more original than the last one," sighed Misty.

The director glared at her, "I'd like see you do any better!"

"I'm sure I could," Misty said.

"Just read the script already!" snapped the director.

"Can't we just...have the stunt doubles act the movie for us?" asked Ash.

"What stunt doubles?" Brock said.

"Uh..." Ash started edging for the door, "Here...let me go get them..."

"You're not fooling anyone," the director said, "Now get back here and go through your part!"

"We can't" Brock told them, "Team Rocket's not here!"

The director was furious, "What? Where are they?"

"I think they died or something," Ash said casually, leaning back in his chair.

"No they didn't!" the director fumed.

"How do you know?"

"Why would they be dead?"

"Don't ask me! I'm not the one who killed them!"

"Listen, if they don't come back we can't read the script and if we can't read the script none of you are going to get out of here!"

Ash, Misty, and Brock jumped to their feet.

"Don't worry! We'll find them!" Misty exclaimed. The three ran out the door, followed by Pikachu. Right after they left, the director turned around, coming face to face with Jessie, James, and Meowth.

"Where have you been!" the director demanded.

"What do you mean?" asked James.

"Exactly what I said...where have you been?"

"We never left," Meowth told him.

"But...but...you were gone...you just came back!"

"No we didn't."

"Then why didn't I see you in here?"

"Maybe you're going blind..."

"I'm not going blind!"

"How can you be so sure?"

"I can see you right now!"

"No you can't"

"Stop doing that!"

"Doing what?"

"That!"

The three had worried looks on their faces, "We're really starting to worry about you..."

"What are you implying?"

"Nothing...just maybe you should go talk to-"

"I'm not going to therapy!"

"Let me finish! Now, before I was so rudely interrupted, I was saying that you should go talk to the cook! I mean, I've had bad cafeteria food before but-"

"James!"

"It was just a thought..."

The director wondered how much aspirin he had left. He sat down on a chair, "After Ash, Misty, and Brock get back we'll read the scripts and I'll be rid of all of you!"

"What do you mean 'get back'?" asked Ash.

"ACK! When'd you get here?" the director nearly had a heart attack this time.

"What are you talking about? We've been here the whole time," Brock told him.

"No! You went to look for Jessie, James, and Meowth!"

"Why would we look for them if they never left?" Misty wanted to know.

"Don't you remember? You even said they were dead?" Now Ash, Misty, and Brock looked worried, too.

"Now...about that cook?..." James started but decided to forget it as Jessie glared at him.

"You know what? You can go home! Forget about the script!" the director told them.

"No...I really want to read that script now," Ash said. That did it. The director stood up, pushed his chair in, dusted off his pants, nodded at his actors, and ran away screaming crazily.

"Ha! I told you we could make him go insane without getting physical!" Misty laughed.

Jessie, James, and Meowth grumbled and forked over the money they'd promised AshCo. if they lost the bet.

"Think we should read the script anyway?" asked Brock. If it hadn't been for that small ounce of guilt for making their director go insane and the fact that none of them had anything better to do they wouldn't have done it but read it they did! And they did it well! And so ends our tale...

What? ...A script? ...Fine! You can have a script but that's all for me! I've been humiliated enough on the show but now you're forcing me to stay here beyond my will! Narrators just don't get any respect these days!


ASH: I can't believe I just won the lottery!

BROCK: Neither can I! What are you going to do with a million dollars, anyway?

ASH: I figured I could squander it foolishly on a bunch of stuff I don't need.

BROCK: Good idea.

ASH: What's the best way to blow cash?

BROCK: Well, first of all, you need to buy a convertible...

ASH: I'll have to buy a mansion, too.

BROCK: Misty, do you have any good ieas? ...Misty?

ASH: Where'd she go?

BROCK: Pikachu's gone, too

ASH: My money! Where is it?

BROCK: They must've stolen it!

ASH: Quick! We have to find them or I'll never get that trip to Hawaii!

ASH and BROCK run off to look for MISTY and PIKACHU

Scene moves to MISTY and PIKACHU, who are making their getaway in a stylish new car

MISTY: We're rich, Pikachu! And we're finally rid of the guys!

PIKACHU: Pika pika!

MISTY: I know. If they find us we'll be in deep growlithe doo-doo!

PIKACHU: Pika pika...

MISTY: Don't worry, I have a dress in back that I can change into. Nobody will recognize me then! And I have a fake mustache for you!

PIKACHU: Pika pika!

MISTY: That rain DID come up rather abruptly, didn't it? I can barely see the road!

PIKACHU: Pika pika?

MISTY: Oh! Who needs a license? I know how to drive!

PIKACHU: Pika pika!

MISTY: Where?

MISTY spots a light from a motel and pulls up to it

MISTY: reading the sign The Special Super-Happy Hotel Where Nobody Gets Killed.

PIKACHU: Pika pika!

MISTY: It does seem a rather odd name for it...I mean, this isn't a hotel! It's a motel!

They walk into the office where JAMES is seated at the counter

JAMES jumps up, shoving something into a drawer as if it were a big secret that nobody could find out about

JAMES: Need a room?

MISTY: motions to PIKACHU Do you allow pokémon?

JAMES: Yeah...but I don't have any rooms left.

MISTY: What are you talking about? There's no one else here!

JAMES: Did I say rooms? I meant donuts! I don't have any donuts left!

JAMES reaches into the drawer and pulls out what he'd shoved in there just moments ago...a donut

MISTY: I thought you said you didn't have any of those!

JAMES: Um...I meant...uh...jelly filled!

MISTY: That one's jelly filled!

JAMES: It's CREAM filled!

MISTY: It really looks like jelly...

JAMES: It does, doesn't it?

MISTY: Why are you acting so suspicious?

JAMES: No one ever dies here!

MISTY: What?

JAMES: I said you need to sign the guestbook

MISTY: ...OK

JAMES pulls out a guestbook and a pen

MISTY picks up the pen and signs the guestbook

JAMES: looks at PIKACHU No pokémon allowed

MISTY: But you said I could have it here

JAMES: Oh yeah...well, just this one time...You're in room 105

MISTY: How can you have a room 105 if you only have ten rooms?

JAMES: I said your going to be in room 105 and that's where you're staying!

MISTY: Whatever, just give me the key

JAMES hands MISTY a key with the number 5 on it

MISTY and PIKACHU, relieved to get away from JAMES, hurry out the door to room number 5

MISTY: What a strange guy...we'd better leave this place early tomorrow!

PIKACHU: Pika pika!

MISTY: Why don't you watch TV or something? I'm going to take a shower.

MISTY opens the bathroom door and steps in

Scene moves to JAMES, who is in the office stuffing a pidgey

JAMES: What a strange girl shrugs, stops stuffing the pidgey What're you doing, Jessie?

Scene moves back to MISTY

The camera is at a close-up of her face as she washes her hair

The camera slowly moves out revealing that she's still fully clothed

The door opens and somebody steps in

MISTY: Huh? Pikachu, is that you?

MISTY turns and sees a person with long pinkish hair and a dress from behind the translucent shower curtains

MISTY screams

Scene moves to ASH and BROCK, who are talking to MEOWTH, the detective

MEOWTH: So, she and da pikachu stole yer money and skipped town?

A/B: Exactly.

MEOWTH: Well, dere ya go! Ya already know what happened! What's da problem?

BROCK: We want Misty and Pikachu back!

ASH: But mostly the money.

MEOWTH: What are ya waiting for? Go out and get it!

ASH: That's why we came to you! We don't know where they went.

MEOWTH: I see how it is! You want me ta do yer doity woik!

BROCK: It's your job! We're paying you to find them!

MEOWTH: Yer payin' me? Why didn't ya say so? I'm on da case!

MEOWTH runs out the door

ASH: I knew we could trust him to find my money!

BROCK: But he doesn't even know what Misty looks like!

ASH: It's amazing how these detectives work with such limited information.

Scene moves to the Special Super-Happy Hotel Where Nobody Gets Killed

JAMES'S VOICE: Jessie! What have you done? It'll take me hours to clean up this mess, Jessie! Hours!

The next day

JAMES is sitting at the counter eating a donut

MEOWTH enters the room

JAMES shoves the donut into his pocket so MEOWTH won't see it

MEOWTH: Hello, Sir. I'm lookin' fer a young goil and a pikachu. Anyone come here in da past couple days?

JAMES: Um...no...

MEOWTH: You sure?

JAMES: Yeah.

MEOWTH: Positive?

JAMES: Yeah.

MEOWTH: So if I was ta, say, find her in one'a dese rooms you would tell me she wasn't here?

JAMES: Yeah.

MEOWTH: Look, I got a picture of her right here pulls out a picture of a female meowth in a bikini but immediately puts it away, embarrassed and takes out a different picture of Misty

JAMES: Haven't seen her.

MEOWTH: Ya didn't even look at it!

JAMES: Exactly.

MEOWTH: Nevermind, can I just see- Is dat jelly drippin' outta yer pocket?

JAMES: Perhaps.

MEOWTH: sighs Lemme see yer guestbook.

JAMES: No.

MEOWTH: Why not? Because her name is in it?

JAMES: Yes.

MEOWTH: Really?

JAMES: Maybe.

MEOWTH: Just let me see it already!

JAMES hands MEOWTH the guestbook

The entries read:
James
James
James
James
Jessie
James
James
James
Norman Bates
Jessie
James
James
Misty
James
James
James

MEOWTH: Dere's 'er name! Right dere!

JAMES: You know what, I think I have seen her

MEOWTH: What room was she in?

JAMES: 105

MEOWTH: You don't have a room 105!

JAMES: I'll show it to you!

JAMES leads MEOWTH out to the rooms

They pass rooms 1, 2, 3, and 4. JAMES stops in front of room number 5, which has 10 painted in front of the 5

MEOWTH: Mind if I look around?

JAMES: Yes. Jessie's going to kill you. walks away

MEOWTH walks into the room and looks for anything useful

He sees the usual things that motels have: a television, a bible, two sets of beds, pictures of boats, Misty's shoes

MEOWTH notes that the shower curtains are missing and what looks like blood in the bathtub but dismisses it as nothing

He steps out the door and spots a spooky house located on a hill next to the motel and starts to walk toward it but is intercepted by JAMES

JAMES: What're you doing?

MEOWTH: Who lives in dat dere house?

JAMES: Just me.

MEOWTH: Really? But I see someone in da window!

JAMES: It's just Jessie.

MEOWTH: But you said you was da only one who lives dere.

JAMES: By me I meant Jessie and I.

MEOWTH: Could I maybe have a woid with her?

JAMES: No.

MEOWTH: Why?

JAMES: 'Cause she'll kill you.

MEOWTH: ...Ya know, it's getting' kinda late...I think I'll just be heading out...

MEOWTH runs over to his car and drives away quickly

JAMES: Why do the weirdoes always come here?

Later that night...

MEOWTH pulls up in his car and quietly gets out

The only sound is some pidgey, tweeting amongst themselves

MEOWTH sneaks by the office so he won't get JAMES's attention

MEOWTH: Shut up, ya noisy boids!

The pidgey flutter away and MEOWTH continues quietly toward the spooky house he'd seen earlier

MEOWTH finally enters the house and begins up the staircase

Suddenly, the figure with the long pinkish hair and dress came running out of a room towards MEOWTH

MEOWTH screams

Scene moves to ASH and BROCK the following week

They are driving down the road to the Special Super-Happy Hotel Where Nobody Gets Killed

ASH: I wonder why that funny looking detective never came back.

BROCK: It's almost as if he died or something.

ASH: No matter. We'll find the money ourselves.

BROCK: There's that motel...

ASH: Why are we coming here, anyway?

BROCK: sighs impatiently I told you! We're going to steal a set of shower curtains for your mom's birthday!

ASH: Oh yeah...

They pull up in front of the motel and get out of the car

As they enter the office they see JAMES sitting nervously at the counter

BROCK: What kind of shower curtains do you have?

JAMES pulls out the set from room '105'

BROCK: This is perfect!

JAMES: Look, if you want to steal stuff you have to have a reservation!

ASH: If we stay in a room all night do we get to steal the phone book, too?

JAMES: It comes with the phone you're supposed to swipe.

ASH: I see.

BROCK: What a wonderful bargain!

ASH: We'll take a room.

JAMES: I just need you to sign the guestbook.

JAMES is pulling out the guestbook when ASH notices something

ASH: What's stuck between the pages of that book?

JAMES: panicked Nothing! It's just...a...a...a bookmark!

BROCK: It's a donut, ya crazy nut!

JAMES makes his getaway into a closet

ASH: We'll be in room number 7 if you need us.

ASH and BROCK walk out the door

JAMES: from inside the closet It's all going according to plan...Now, where's my car...

END!

Okay, that was part three! I believe there are about four scripts in this entire fanfic, so keep checking back. Review now.