Back with another chapter and this is the best one I've made since I only saw this episode once! Based on "Beauty and the Beach", I'm sure everyone would love to know/read the real reason why a "certain part" was edited out from the one in Japanese. Enjoy!
Chapter 20: Beauty and the Beach
Upon reaching the beautiful beach of Porta Vista, Ash and friends catch their breaths.
"We're going off to the beach," Ash suggested. "Wanna come, Angelina?"
"Nah, I'm going to check into a hotel." Angelina replied. "But I'll meet up with you later, okay?" she added, then looks down to her Pokemon. "C'mon, Hydro! Let's go!"
Angelina heads over to a 'not so expensive but not so cheap' hotel. Once inside, she checked in with the receptionist, and went up to room six on the eleventh floor. She settled into her room for two hours and then decided to roam around Porta Vista by herself on the boardwalk. There were lots of people, most of them heading over to a restaurant called Brutella's Ocean Chateau. Angelina walked by, but the aroma of food distracted her slightly.
"Hey Angel!" said a voice that Angelina found very familiar. She stopped walking and turned around, Ash and Brock were standing right outside of another restaurant. Ash wore blue swim trunks and his jacket without the shirt, but Angelina blushed at the sight of Brock wearing blue swim trunks with a dark blue stripe down the side. She couldn't help but like how tanned and toned he was. "Hey guys, told ya I'd be around. What's up?"
"We, uh…. crashed into this boat that beings to this old guy named Moe, and we have to work in his restaurant to pay for the damage." Ash explained. "We're doing good, but I think the Pokemon should help us out, too! Don't you agree, Brock?"
"Um... yeah, r-right!" Brock said, struggling to keep his eyes from wandering over Angelina too much. She wore a purple tank top that showed little cleavage with a sparkly black heart on the front, a blue-jean pleited mini skirt, black sandals, and her hair was up in a stylish ponytail.
Angelina giggled. "Sounds like a plan, nothing's cuter than Pokemon!"
"Great!" Ash said, taking out his Pokeballs and threw them. "Come on out guys!"
Ash's Pokemon, except Butterfree, appeared; Bulbasaur, Squirtle, Charmander, and Pidgeotto. While Pikachu and Squirtle were handle out fliers, Charmander and Pidgeotto helped out in the kitchen with grilling and broiling, and Bulbasaur helped Misty serve food and drink. Angelina watched as the restaurant was full of people, but things went from good to worse as the customers were in fury and stormed out. Drinks and food were spilled wasted, half the kitchen was blown up, and fliers were scattered from an unknown wind. Angelina walked inside the restaurant. Ash and his companions, the restaurant owner, and the Pokemon were sitting in dejection and failure.
"What went wrong?" Ash asked.
"Just about everything," Brock replied, the girls frowned.
"Moe, we're really sorry we messed things up for you," Ash said.
"You all did the best you could," Moe sighed. "At least things were going good for a while until those accidents started happening."
"I guess so," Ash agreed.
"Something's weird!" Misty yelled. "No way those were just accidents!"
"Well, well," said an unrecognizable voice to everyone; stepping inside the doorway was an old and short woman, and joined with her was Jessie and James were decked out in gray-and-red wait-staff uniforms.
"Team Rocket!" Ash yelled.
"Who's that?" Angelina asked, pointing to the old woman.
"Brutella, I think," Misty replied.
"Don't need a reservation to get into here anymore," said the woman sarcastically. "If things keep up like this, I'd have to go out of business, Moe."
Ash stood up, "What do you care?"
Brutella chuckles, "I couldn't care less if this dump goes under, better figure out someway to pay me back the dough you own me and fast."
"You'll get your money," Moe assured.
"Yeah? Well I want it tomorrow!" Brutella demanded. "And if you don't pay me back every pennt, I'll just take that boat of yours instead."
"No please, take anything you want, but not that boat!" Moe begs.
"See ya tomorrow!" Brutella laughs, leaving the restaurant.
"The clock's ticking!" James warned, smirking.
"Hope you don't get the money!" Jessie teased.
"Cuz dat boat of yours is our honey!" Meowth said.
Team Rocket laughs it up before they turn and leave also.
Ash growled, "We'll just see."
Moe sighs, "The deadline's tomorrow, but there's no way I can earn that money in less than a day. I guess I'll have to turn my boat over to Brutella."
"That's so sad," Misty said.
"Wait Moe, that boat's real important to ya, isn't it?" Ash asked.
"For years I've dreamed about taking it on a cruise around the world." Moe informed hopefully. "I want to see the world before it's too late, but I guess it wasn't meant to be."
"Don't say that, Moe!" Ash scolded. "You can't give up on your dream! You have to follow your dream no matter what! It's alwayys been my dream to become the world's greatest Pokemon trainer, even though it isn't easy, I'm going to do everything that I can to make it come true. Please Moe, please don't give up, you can't give up, not when your dream is so close to coming true."
"Ash is right, Moe." Angelina agreed. "You can't let that lady take your boat away!"
"We can get the money somehow." Brock said.
"We'll work together." Misty added.
"You think it's possible?" Moe asked.
"Anything's possible, Moe." Ash replied. "We're gonna make it happen."
"But how? In one day?"
"Mind if I make a suggestion? I think its a good one." says a familiar voice, everyone turned around and saw Professor Oak standing in the doorway. He wore a Hawaiian shirt resplendent with pineapples and bright with yellow.
"What are you doing here?" Ash gasped.
"Hi Ash!" laughs Mrs. Ketchum, stepping in beside Professor Oak wearing a little green bikini. "Surprised to see me too?"
"Mom!" Ash gasped in shock, throwing his arms in front of his forehead and chest, "How come you two are here?"
"We'll explain that later, look at this," Professor Oak said, showing Ash an article showing a pretty young girl and a Poliwrath together. "The Annual Porta Vista Beach Beauty and Pokemon Costume Contest."
"A beach beauty contest sounds excellent." Brock grinned.
"But how is this gonna help us, professor?" Ash asked.
"The contest draws thousands of people each year, and most of those people get hungry. They'll all be looking for a place to eat, why not advertise this place?" Professor Oak suggested. "You'll clean up, and you'll have the money you'll need by tomorrow."
"I'd like to enter the contest," Misty said.
"Me too!" Angelina added.
Professor Oak nodded. "You girls should. There are cash prizes for both the beauty and the costume contests."
"Well, our money worries are over." Ash smiled in relief.
Later that day, Pidgeotto drops fliers advertising the contest, and a lot of people appeared.
"Welcome everybody! The Porta Vista Beach Beauty and Pokemon Costume Contest is about to begin!" Brock commentated to the crowd. "Now here's our first contestant!"
Angelina watches from backstage and smiles as Misty steps out dressed in a little red bikini. The crowd cheers approvingly and Misty seems to be happy as she waves and walks down the runway.
Misty poses when Staryu and Squirtle (wearing a bizarre helmet) float down and bob back and forth behind her. Squirtle squirts a tiny fountain of water up in the air, causing beads of water to fall down around Misty as she grins and poses for the crowd. Suddenly, Misty is slammed into the sand beside the runway.
Angelina gasped watching Jessie and James appear on stage. Jessie is all decked out in a two piece blue bikini while James is also decked out in a two piece orange number, with a towel wrapped around his waist and adding another shock (to everyone), held together by two tiny triangles of material, were two large pair of breasts. James was also all decked out in make-up and lipstick, and his eyebrows teased, too.
"What nerve!" Misty gasped in shock, "James, aren't you a boy?"
"Boy, girl, doesn't matter as long as I'm beautiful," James replied.
"Don't waste our time and bug off!" Jessie waves the young red-head off.
"I can even make my chest bigger!" James grabbed the little clasp between the fake breasts and twists it, making them expand as he pumps more air into them.
"Eeeeeek!" Misty squealed in shock, taking an involuntary step back.
James thrusts his hands behind his head and thrusts his chest forward, winking at the crowd. "Finished!"
"Suddenly, two mistresses appeared! They don't even think their sudden appearance is rude. How will the judges react?" Brock asked the crowd, whom cheers enthusiastically. "Everything is okay! They are welcome!"
"Oh, it figures," Angelina sighed from behind the curtain.
"How's that?" Jessie smiled.
"Wait until you're older," James teased while holding the fake breasts. "So you will have these, then come and compete."
"And next we have two Pokemon calling themselves the 'Rocket Booster' dressed as a legendary Pokemon," Brock informed, then looks strangely at Koffing wearing a beard and Ekans wrapped around its head like a turban. "Uhh, this is a very intersting costume. I believe its supposed to be Omastar and the Pokemon are Ekans and Koffing!"
Koffing floats joyfully out, and bobs gently at the end of the runway before being cruelly kicked off onto the sand by someone's foot. "Get lost! Ha!" a voice yelled.
"Well, here goes nothing," Angelina said, taking a deep breath and stepped on stage. She stopped in mid-walked and groaned in annoyance. "Oh no, it's Gary!"
There standing on the walk-way was Ash's rival, dressed in black shorts and a pink Hawaiian shirt with blue palm trees set across it. He was joined by a group of girls, no older than sixteen, decked out in their swimsuits.
"Huh?" Gary turned around and noticed Angelina's figure in a lovely black bikini. "Say now, you're lookin' good!" he winked.
Angelina narrowed her eyes in disgust, "Don't think you're not taking all the glory!"
"Aw, lighten up Angel-cake," Gary grinned, placing his arm around the girl.
"How bout' no!" Angelina said, scowling more to the nickname he fashioned her. "And I never said you could touch me."
"Yeah, whatever," Gary shrugged, then smirked while holding up a microphone. "Ash, I know you're out in the crowd somewhere, but I didn't come here to make you jealous. I came here so some of my beautiful fan club members could make you jealous of me!"
"Gary, Gary! He's our man! He'll trash Ash! We know he can!" the group of girls chanted.
"Thank you, fans! Great cheer!" Gary waved, then grinned cheekily, "I wrote that one myself, Ashy!"
"Not one, not two, but six beautiful girls on stage all at once!" Brock informed the crowd, his face a bright red. "Choosing the most beautiful is going to be tough, but its a good kind of tough!"
"Not fare! I didn't even go yet!" Angelina cried.
"I'm not gonna let you stand up here and insult me like that!" Ash yelled, climbing on stage. "I challenge you to a battle right now!"
"I'd love to, but I only brought my fans with me." Gary explained. "Besides, why would I be scared of having a battle with an amateur trainer like you?"
Ash growls, "I'll..."
"Take it easy, Ash," Brock warned, holding back his friend. "Don't pay any attention to what he says."
"I don't know how you'll control your Pokemon if you can't even control yourself." Gary laughed. Then he yelped when Angelina grab him by the front of his shirt and lift him up, her hazel eyes darkened as she growled furiously.
"Listen here you egotistical, self-centered, arrogant jerk! Ash may not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I know he cares about his Pokemon and he doesn't have an attitude like yours. Now I suggest you keep your big mouth shut and play nice before you get messed up, are we clear?"
Gary was shocked. He had never seen Angelina snap like that before and hoped it was the last as she released him. He sighed, lifting his hand to rub the back of his neck. "I-I'm sorry. It won't happen again, I swear."
Angelina glared at the ten-year-old in disbelief, but she decided to forgive now unless things changed otherwise. She looked over at Ash, who was staring at her in admiration, but what really distracted her was Brock when he grabbed both her hands into his and stared at her in a captivating way that made her cheeks tinge pink.
"That was really hot, Angelina."
"R-really? I wasn't trying though."
"I know, but you are." Brock said, which made the girl blush redder.
Suddenly, people screamed in terror as a Gyrados flies out of the water and rides along the sand. Angelina hugged Brock out of fear and Ash grabs the microphone from Gary.
"Just stay calm, everybody! That thing's noty a real Gyrados! It's a fake, its phoney!" Ash yelled to the crowd and everyone stopped running. "It's just a phoney Gyrados! Team Rocket is just trying to ruin the contest and scare everybody away, but we're not gonna let them!"
"That's the spirit!" Angelina encouraged, then she looked over Brock's shoulder and smiled seeing Misty stare at Ash in dreamy adulation.
"My boy," Mrs. Ketchum whispered proudly.
A missile is fired from the Gyrados machine and flies towards them.
"It's heading this way!" Brock yelled.
"So now what're you going to do, Ash?" Gary asked skeptically. "Freak out?"
"Just watch me," Ash grinned.
"Ash, I think that looks like one of those heat-seeking missiles." Brock said.
"No sweat!" Ash said, flipping his league hat backwards. He maximized two Pokeballs and threw them, "I choose you, Charmander! Pidgeotto!"
Pidgeotto catches Charmander in it's claws and they fly into the slow missiles path, where Charmander fries it with it's Flamethrower attack.
This unexpected heat sets the missile back to homing mode and it turns back to it's source, heading straight for Team Rocket. As the Gyrados Submarine turns to flee, Team Rocket blindly tries to escape the missile.
"AHHHHHH, TURN BACK!" Brutella screamed, as they're heading right for her place.
Team Rocket is too terrified to hear and they slam right into the Café Crone, followed by the missile, and seconds later Team Rocket.
"WE'RE BLASTING OFF AGAIN!" Team Rocket flew out of sight, joined by Brutella.
Later that day….
"Well, I guess this is good-bye," Moe says to Ash and friends. "The money from the contest has helped so much that I was able to sell up my restaurant."
"That's great," Ash smiled. "So what are you doing now with all the money?"
"I've retired and always wanted to explore the world." Moe explained stepping into a white boat and turns back to Ash, "Thank you for your help," he waves and sails off.
Angelina, Ash and his companions head back to the beach where they discover Mrs. Ketchum and Professor Oak waiting for them.
"We gotta get going too, Mom." Ash said.
"I know," Mrs. Ketchum replies, holding the winner's trophy.
"I'm gonna make you proud of me," Ash added, then he walks of with his friends down the beach into the sunset.
"Yeah, I'm going, too." Angelina sighed, waving to Professor Oak and Mrs. Ketchum. "Goodbye and congratulations!" She also leaves and heads back to the hotel for a deserved rest.
§To Be Continued§
*Based off the episode "Beauty And The Beach"; it was banned because of the sexual references and James crossdresses wearing inflatable breasts for a beauty contest.
*This is the first appearance of Team Rocket's Gyrados submarine.
*The episode/chapter's title is a reference to the fairytale, Beauty and the Beast.
*Contrary to popular belief, Delia Ketchum does not win the Beauty contest in either version, as she never entered. The winner of the contest is actually unknown and unspecified.
*Misty and Brock meet Gary; Angelina tells Gary off for insulting Ash.
*The trophy that Ash's mother holds has inscribed with the words: "First Place in Our Hearts: Ash Ketchum."
Thanks for reading, this chapter was fun! I might have to change the rating soon, but hopefully you'll still read! Next chapter will be up, reviews welcomed!