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Chapter 39: What Happened?
After telling Aaron's friends the story of the switch, Aaron and Ash sent their new Pokemon to Professor Oak who was not too happy about the 30 extra Tauros'.
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A few days later,
"For the umphteenth time Vincent, We are not lovebirds!" Marina told the boy.
"You're just jealous because Marina won't go out with you." Jimmy added.
"Are they always like this?" Marie asked Aaron.
"Unfortunately, yes."
"Did we ever act like that?" Ash and Misty asked Brock.
"Oh yeah."
"Where are we now?" Jimmy asked trying to change the subject of his lovelife.
"It looks like Dark City."
"Great. I can see it now." Ash said sarcastically.
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In the Yas Gym,
"Tom! Anne! Ceasar!" the girl from the Yas Gym called as she recognized our heroes.
"I saw it." Ash sighed.
"Huh?" the foursome from New Bark asked in confusion.
"You were at your mother's." Marie explained. "When Ash was talking about himself in the car, he used that name as a cover so your father wouldn't have a heart attack while driving."
"I can explain more," Misty said as Ash explained to the girl about the real names. "When we were last here, the Yas and Kas gyms were feuding. So that our names wouldn't be recognized, we quickly used fake names. Ash went first and started to hesitate. He noticed Pikachu sucking on a bottle of ketchup and told that same girl that his name was Tom Ato."
"Tom Ato?" Aaron asked.
"Yeah. I was Anne Choive and Brock was Caesar Salad."
"You guys must have really hesitated." Marie pointed out.
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After battling the Yas and Kas gyms, our eight heroes ate lunch at the restaurant and then started to head off again. Pikachu and Static were both sucking on their own bottles of ketchup.
"Thanks a lot Ash. Now Static is hooked on that condiment." Aaron complained.
"Sorry. I've been trying to break the habit. I've even put mustard inside a ketchup bottle once."
"Pikachu pika PIIII." (You do that again, you'll really get it) Pikachu said while his cheeks were sparking
Everybody laughed at Pikachu's threat.
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"Hey Look! A Canyon!" Vincent noticed in the desert.
"Yeah. Grandfather Canyon. Where I found Togepi." Ash said emphasizing the "I".
"Thank you for that." Misty said as she gave him a quick kiss on the cheek.
Brock shook his head,
"And to think the last time you two where here, you were acting like Jim and Mar."
Jimmy and Marina blushed.
"Aww man. It's closed." Vincent complained.
"It was closed last time we were here as well." Aaron told them.
"That would be Team Rocket's fault." Misty told them.
"TEAM ROCKET?"
"Last time we were here," Ash explained, "There was a huge fossil rush. My rival at the time, Gary Oak, was even in on it. He found fossilized Pokemon manure." Ash laughed. "Anyways, Team Rocket decided to get all of the fossils by blowing up the canyon. We tried to stop them, but SOMEBODY decided to stop the fuse and dynamite by thundershocking it." Ash glared at Pikachu.
"Pika?" (Who me?)
"Anyways, Pikachu, Team Rocket, and I fell into a hole in the ground. Everything just got worse from there when the blast woke up a bunch of cranky Prehistoric Pokemon. Including a very hungry Areodactyl."
"Aren't Areodactyl carnivorous?" Marie asked.
"Carnivorous?" Vincent asked.
"They only eat meat." Marina explained.
"Oh."
"Yes they are. Apparently I was on the menu." Ash stated.
"WHAT!" Everyone except Brock and Misty screamed.
"ANOTHER near-oops" Aaron started to say before Ash glared at him and covered his mouth.
"Yeah. My disobedient Charmeleon was caught off guard when it attacked. He and Pikachu grabbed onto Areodactyl's tail and jumped off as soon as we got to ground level. Just as the Areodactyl was about to eat me, Charmeleon evolved into Charizard just so it could battle. Then Jigglypuff came onto the scene and sang everyone to sleep. One minute I noticed Areodactyl looking sleepy, and the next minute I was safely on the ground with my arm wrapped around an egg."
"What happened to Team Rocket?" Jimmy asked
"I don't know. We saw them a few days later."
"You have all the fun." Aaron pointed out
Marie and Misty glared at him.
"What?"
TBC (Just kidding)
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A few days later, our heroes got lost in the forest AGAIN.
"And we were doing so well too." Misty sighed.
"Hey! Look! A clearing!" Aaron pointed.
Our heroes ran to the clearing and saw a HUGE mansion.
"Wow!"
"This is bigger than the Goldenrod City Mall." Marina pointed out.
Ash looked to his side and recognized what he saw.
"Guys. That is not a mansion."
"What is it then?" Aaron challenged him, "the doll house?"
"More like the DOG house." Ash said pointing to the side.
Everybody turned and saw a mansion 10 times the size of the one they had been staring at.
"We better leave." Ash said.
"Yeah. I'd hate to be caught by Miss. "You're-Not-Running-Properly"" Misty said while imitating Jessebelle.
"Huh?"
"Trust us. You don't want to know." Brock said
Just as they were running, they fell into a hole.
"Ow. I thought we were done falling into these." Misty complained.
Everyone except the newest trio prepared for the too familiar laugh and the lines that would follow. They never came. Instead, they heard a Growlithe bark and look into the hole prepared to use flamethrower. When it saw who it was, it relaxed and ran to the larger mansion.
"What was that?" Jimmy asked.
"A Growlithe." Ash answered.
"Cute. I think Andy has one." Aaron said.
"Growl" (C'mon)
"What is it Growlie?" a very familiar voice said at ground level.
"We are SO dead." Ash groaned.
The Growlithe's owner, who was wearing a t-shirt and jeans, came and looked down into the hole and got the shock of his life.
"Hi James." Ash, Misty, and Brock said timidly.
"You guys? Let me guess. You guys got lost and wound up on the property; realized where you were; tried to leave; and wound up getting trapped in one of the traps we set up for Jessebelle in case she ever returned?"
"Yeah."
"How come you guys fall into our traps now that we no longer work for Team Rocket?" James asked as he lowered a rope for our heroes.
"We used to always fall into them. Whether or not you got Pi… Wait. You no longer work for Team Rocket?" Ash asked
"Yeah. We tried to get some extra money for another machine, but that didn't work out. We were fired before we had enough."
"So what happened?" Misty asked.
"Why don't we go inside the mansion and talk about this?" James escorted them.
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Inside the mansion,
"So, did you inherit the mansion?" Brock asked the ex-member of Team Rocket.
"Yeah. My parents died before they changed the will." James told them.
"We're sorry." Ash said.
"They are REALLY dead this time. Right?" Misty asked.
"MISTY!" Everyone who was not there at the time yelled at her.
"It's ok. Last time, they faked their deaths. Yes. They are really dead. The only way how I could inherit the house was if I married my fiancée. However, since they said that Jessebelle was "too good for me", I uh, married my fiancée."
"You mean you and…"Misty started.
"Yeah."
"I knew it." Misty said under her breath.
"And what about you two?" James said looking at Ash and Misty.
"Yeah."
"We knew it the whole time. MEOWTH! YOU OWE ME AND JESSIE $10!"
"WHY'S DAT JIM?" A voice called from upstairs.
"THE TWERP AND TWERPETTE ARE A COUPLE!"
Ash and Misty were about to say something when,
"HOW DO YOU KNOW THIS JAMES!" a female voice called down.
"THEY'RE HERE!"
"THE TWERPS? HERE OF ALL PLACES?" Jessie asked doubtfully.
"WE ARE NOT TWERPS!" Ash, Misty, and Brock called.
"Good enough for me." Jessie said as she came down the stairs with Meowth. "What brings you here?"
"Got lost." Our eight-people group said.
"And you are?"
"You three remember Aaron. My twin brother."
"Oh yeah. You're da twerp who looks like de oder twerp." Meowth remembered.
"Yeah. Anyways," Ash continued, "This is his girlfriend Marie, and his friends: Jimmy, Vincent, and Marina."
"Hello."
"Charmed." Jessie said.
"So what happened?" Misty asked. "James said that you guys are no longer part of Team Rocket."
"Well, after we were blasted off for the last time," James started. "We got this job at a pizza place to save money for a new machine. However, we were up to our ears in debt, the boss fired us, but we still had to pay him back. We came back here to face my parents, because lately, I had been actually noticing my feeling for Jessie." He turned to her and she blushed. "Anyways. I told her and we came here ready to yell at my parents only to find out that they really died."
"What did they die of?" Aaron asked
"Both died of heart attacks. The will had not been changed and it said that if I don't marry my fiancée in 24 hours, the house would go to charity. So, I asked Jessie and she accepted my hand in marriage."
"It was a small wedding." Jessie continued. "We used some of James' inheritance to pay off our debt to the boss. Now, we are perfectly content."
"Yeah. We noticed after we fell into another one of your holes." Ash said
"Oh those. Those are just in case Miss. Priss doesn't get it through her thick head that James already has a wife."
"Are you two going to have any children?" Marina asked.
The ex-Team Rocket members blushed a bright red.
"Day have ta. Or else dis mansion would go ta waste." Meowth answered.
"Thank you Meowth." Jessie said with grinding teeth as she bonked Meowth on the head.
"The truth is, like Meowth said, we have to. But not right away." James told them.
"Ok. Well, good luck you guys." Ash said
"Thank you for your hospitality." Misty said.
"No problem." Meowth said.
"If it weren't for you guys, we would still be working for Team Rocket." Jessie told them.
"We don't need to be a member of that to be the best team ever." James said.
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On the way to the next town,
"Who would have thought Jessie and James would settle down?" Brock said.
"At least we won't have to hear that stupid motto again." Misty said.
"Who knows? We might miss it." Ash said.
Brock and Misty glared at him.
"Besides Brock hitting on the girls, they were the comic relief." Ash defended himself.
"Yeah. Some of their crazy ideas at times." Misty reminisced.
"And don't forget that they did help at some points." Ash pointed out.
"That's right. Like that time with the Breeding Center." Brock said.
"And Mandrin Island." Misty suggested.
"There was also Shamuti." Ash said.
"Don't remind me." Misty told him remembering how he had almost died.
"And Greenfield." Brock continued the list
"Are you sure these guys were your ENEMIES?" Jimmy asked.
"They spent more time trying to capture Pikachu than helping us." Misty explained.
"Also, if it weren't for them, Pikachu wouldn't be as strong." Ash added.
TBC.
A/N: Finally. 39 Chapters into the story and Jessie and James finally show up. Did I not tell you that there would be some hints of Rocketshipping in this in my original story?
Preview:
Just then, the hippie came out, but he looked different.
"Did you shrink Blaine?" Aaron asked.
"BLAINE!"
"Not quite" a female's voice came from behind the chibi Blaine. It was another Blaine.
As everybody's mouths dropped,
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