Hello, another Pokemon story underway! If you've stayed loyal to my other Pokemon stories, then you'll like this one! This takes place before chapter three of "Steps In Paradise". I don't own Pokemon, except my own character and the plot. Enjoy!
Summary: A missing chapter from "Steps In Paradise". Team Rocket and Angelina learn an important lesson, so why's the Ketchum-brigade involved, too? R&R!
Never Lend Butch Your Gengar
Chapter 1: Prologue
On a calm summer evening, a young girl of fourteen with hazel eyes sat at her vanity brushing her strawberry-blonde hair inside her room of a huge hilltop house in Pallet Town. She's Angelina Murakami, the daughter of Giovanni Murakami and Delia Ketchum. Also the oldest sister to Ash Ketchum and Christina Murakami.
Angelina defeated the Orange League a year after she earned the Johto Region badges, then placed in the top three for the Indigo League Tournament. She has yet to participate in the Johto League Silver Conference, but until then, her journey has also led to following her young brother and ridding Team Rocket's troubles.
Angelina also dedicated half her life to Team Rocket. Mostly her friend Marcus Trainum's idea, Angelina and her best friend Jeremy Cretonne are now undercover Rocket-Agents working for the police to shut down the evil organization from stealing and injuring Pokemon.
Since the year that Angelina was on her journey in the Kanto Region, she found out that Team Rocket's Jessie and James attacked the Viridian City Pokemon Center. The rockets were blasted off by Ash's Pikachu's Thundershock, which mostly started the chase of what they'd soon get of failing Pokemon-less schemes.
Angelina knew that Team Rocket would be trouble for Ash, so she tagged along close behind as a guardian, even if Team Rocket had no luck capturing Pikachu with their failing schemes. Though she did feel slightly bad for Jessie and James, for she was also a member of Team Rocket, too.
After the Indigo League Tournament, Angelina found out that Professor Oak sent Ash to the Orange Islands to receive a special device called the G.S. Ball and participate in the Orange League. She also meets up Marcus's sister Amber Trainum, whom flies her out to Valencia Island with the help of her legendary Pokemon Lugia to supposedly meet up with Ash and friends. It wasn't long until Angelina's arrival that Ash and Misty long departed while Brock stayed back with Professor Ivy and her three assistants to study and learn more about the Pokemon. Staying for one night, Angelina soon leaves Valencia Island and later reunites with Ash and Misty whom are joined with another good friend to Angelina, Tracey Sketchit.
One adventure stuck out to Angelina more as a memory she would never forget. It happened during the time that Ash was capturing badges for the Orange League. She ran into Team Rocket's Jessie and James, and then later on, Cassidy and Butch. They were both both trying to capture Ash's Pikachu, somehow succeeding but with a terrible outcome miles away at Team Rocket Head Quarters.
Angelina sat down on her bed after a quick glance at her sleeping Pichu curled up in his basket; she picked up her diary and began to write the adventure that happened not too long ago.
Dearest Diary,
I know I've been very busy since the last three years, but I have something very interesting to tell you. It happened at the end of last month to the beginning of last week, supposedly after hearing that Ash Ketchum was competing for the Orange League and very far after the incident involving Butch and Cassidy attacking Mandarin Island.
I knew after the Indigo League Tournament something would happen. Professor Oak sent Ash to Professor Ivy on Valencia Island in the Orange Archipelago for a delivery of the GS Ball. Upon arrival, Brock offered to stay back and study the Pokemon with Ash and Misty fended for themselves on their own journey back to Pallet Town, or so I thought, until I reunited with Ash and Misty on Mandarin Island while joined with a good friend of mine, Tracey Sketchit.
So now Ash was training for the Orange League, and Team Rocket was still following to capture Pikachu nonetheless. It wasn't long until one day…. Something just had to happen…. Well, this is just how my story begins….
The beach was crowded as it turned out to be a beautiful day.
Angelina laid her towel out and went off to change into her red-and-black bikini, and then she went strolling for a walk with her Pichu. She was about to head back to her towel to sunbathe when she suddenly felt watched.
"Oow! Jess!"
Angelina turned upon hearing the voice, there was a blue-haired young man laying on his stomach while a magenta-haired young woman was rubbing on sunscreen for him.
"Oops, sorry. My hands slipped." Jessie said, snickering.
Angelina raised her eyebrow confusedly, 'Okay, what's Jessie and James doing here?' usually the Rockets are scheming to capture Pikachu, but she quickly shrugged it off as nothing and heads over to her towel to relax.
"What yous doing here, sweet-cheeks?"
Angelina looked up and saw Meowth approach her. She noticed earlier that the Feline Pokemon was amusing himself by the shore.
"Hey Meowth, just relaxing." Angelina smiled.
"James, do you shave your legs?" Jessie asked, noticing how smooth and hairless her legs were.
Meowth and Angelina watched, exchanging funny expressions.
"No, I do not!" James retorted, his pride injured.
"Yes, you do!" Jessie giggled. "Come on, you could do Gillette For Women advert!"
"No, I don't!" James insisted before adding quietly. "I wax them."
Jessie roared with laughter, she wasn't the only one since Meowth and Angelina heard and stiffled their own laughs.
"Well, it's difficult to make a convincing Dutch-Egg selling girl, or magician's assistant, or nurse if you have hairy man's legs." James defended sulkily.
"Ladyboy!" Jessie coughed.
"Shut up!" James yelled, it was rare that Jessie (or anyone) saw him angry.
"Calm down. I was just teasing." Jessie huffed, laying down on her chair.
"Well, I've had enough of it," James said, his tone frightening Jessie.
"I'm sorry, all right? I didn't mean to touch a raw nerve."
"You know, Jess," James sat up. "You're not so perfect and beautiful as you think you are, so I wouldn't say those things if I were you."
"Fine then, why don't you find a girlfriend, or a boyfriend and stop bugging me?" Jessie snapped.
"You're a bitch, Jessie," James shook his head before jumping up. He picked up a bag that had his stuff and Pokeballs in it calling, "Victreebel, Weezing— return!" and walking away down the beach.
Angelina was watching, it scared her to see James get angry.
"Ya really bugged him dis time!" Meowth exclaimed, walking up to Jessie a few minutes later when it became clear that James wasn't coming back any time soon.
"Oh, go play with some yarn." Jessie growled.
"Fury Swipes!" Meowth cries, jumping at Jessie, but finding a face full of wooden mallet. "Ahh! My meowth!" he shrieked, spitting out blood, as his fangs had bitten down on his tongue.
Meowth was about to scratch cris-crosses on Jessie's face when he heard a shout of, "Meowth! Angelina! Jessie!"
They looked up and saw James running frantically towards them, a single bead of sweat making its way down his forehead.
"What is it, James? A tidal wave?" Jessie asked.
"No! It's worse…. Than that…. Much…. Worse!" James babbled, breathing too hard from exertion and panic that he could only communicate in frustratingly broken sentences. "Video-phone…. Cassidy…. Botch…. Out of…. Jail…. Want…. Revenge!" he flung himself into Jessie's arms for protection. "What are we going to do, Jess!"
Jessie and Meowth exchanged worried glances, Cassidy and Butch have escaped from their second attack that took place on Mandarin Island. Now after revenge….
Angelina didn't think she had to worry, she never did anything to Cassidy and Butch. Except when they mind-controlled her Pichu on Mandarin Island, she had to sacrifice one of her other Pokemon to escape. Another time, about two years ago, Angelina did save a Lapras from Cassidy and Butch on Tangelo Island with help from Jeremy, they never found out she intruded. She felt bad for Jessie and James, they helped Ash and friends stop Cassidy and Butch from their two main schemes. She kept a low profile around them, and she was lucky they kept quiet that she was undercover as well.
§To Be Continued§
I've written this story awhile back when I was still updating "Two Escapades In One", this may be more Team Rocket-related, but you'll like it nonetheless. All comments and suggestions are welcomed, thanks!