Crazy gaseous potions should be disposed of properly…except when Team Rocket is nearby! It's time for a special installment of this countdown!


#10: The Bates Motel Incident

The Team Rocket trio drives down a deserted road in the middle of nowhere in the dead of night. It was raining very hard, and James, who was driving, was getting fatigued from trying to maneuver in such awful weather.

"Come on James, let's pull over and take a break. I think we're lost anyways," Meowth says to him from the back seat.

"Well we wouldn't be lost if weren't for a crappy navigator such as yourself!" James shot back to Meowth. "We finally bag-up a ton of rare Pokemon and we wind up in this deserted area! Nice going," he adds, sticking his tongue at Meowth through the rear-view mirror.

"Oh put a sock in it you two. I think I see a place where we can stay up ahead," Jessie says, squinting as she looks through the soaked windshield in front of her.

James drives up to the area Jessie pointed out.

It was a motel, and it seemed like there were some rooms available.

"Bates Motel? What kind of funny-name for a motel is that?" James asks.

"Who cares? Let's go in, I'm beat!" Meowth says, hopping out of the car.

James and Jessie follow suit, leaving their bag of Poke' Balls full of rare Pokemon in the trunk.

Bates Motel: Lobby

Inside the motel's lobby, the trio rings the bell, waiting for the manager to show up.

To their surprise, someone unexpected rises up from behind the counter.

"WOBBA WOBBA!"

It was a Wobbuffet.

"What the?! What's a Wobbuffet doing here running this dead-end motel?" Jessie asks.

"WOBBA WOBBA…WOBBUFFET!"

Meowth, who could understand what other non-talking Pokemon say, translates.

"He says he's the new owner of this motel after his previous caretaker, Norman Bates, was arrested for doing some pretty psychotic stuff last week," Meowth says.

"Oh?" both Jessie and James respond, looking at each other.

"Well, no matter, put us up for the night!" James says.

Wobbuffet salutes the trio and pulls out a motel log book and began flipping through it.

"WOBBA WOBAA! WO…WOBA…WOBBA WOBBUFFET!"

"What's it saying?" Jessie asks Meowth.

"He says 'Hmm…let's see…the Elrics are in Room #1…M.C. is in Room #2…ah! Here you go, you three will take Room #3," Meowth translates.

Wobbuffet then gives them their keys to their room.

With their keys in hand, the three began walking to their room.

"Hmm…I wonder who this M.C. person is who's staying here…and why does the name 'Elric' sound familiar…" James wonders out loud.

Team Rocket's Room

After getting themselves comfortable, they were ready to split up and go their separate ways.

"I could use me a shower, though its sort of lame that there is only one public shower in this place, but oh well," Jessie says, slipping on her robe and heading out into the hallway.

"It's stopped raining, I think I'll go outside and take a look around this place," James says, heading out the room behind Jessie.

"And Meowth will look around this motel for a bite to eat," Meowth says, leaving the room last.

The Elric's Room

Inside Room #1, Edward Elric (The Full Metal Alchemist) and his brother Alphonse, were sitting on the bed admiring the Philosopher's Stone, an item they've been wanting to get for the longest.

"Finally! After all this time, we have the Philosophers Stone in our possession!" Edward says with a wide smile as he inspects the stone. "Too bad we had to stop by this dump on the way back to our home," he adds.

"Brother, we should go celebrate for our findings!" Alphones replies.

"You're right. Let's go find someplace we could eat around here," Edward says, the stone still in hand.

Both boys stand up and head for the hallway.

Once they step out though, they accidentally trip over Meowth…

CRASH!

...SHATTER!

…causing both boys to fall over onto the ground, and the stone as well, which broke into a million pieces upon hitting the hard floor.

Both Elric boys were both in complete shock at their stone being destroyed.

"Hey! Why don't you two watch where you are going?" Meowth says angrily to them.

Edward slowly turns his head toward Meowth, with a scary expression of anger and revenge on his face.

"WATCH WHERE I'M GOING?! YOU'RE THE ONE WHO CASUALLY WALKED IN FRONT OF OUR DOORWAY! NOW LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE YOU STUPID CAT!" Edward shouts angrily at Meowth.

"Hey wait a minute…you're those two guys who attacked us back in that desert town a couple chapters ago!" Meowth says with a gulp.

"Hey, its that talking cat! What should we do with him, brother?" Alphones asks. "And how the heck did he survive my brother's attacks that day?" he thought.

An evil look spreads across Edward's eyes.

Wasting no time with words, Edward clasps his hands together, and slams his palms onto the floor around the broken shards of the Philosophers Stone, using his alchemy powers to do something wicked to Meowth. A red light shot out from the floor around Meowth, engulfing him for a few seconds before disappearing.

Meowth looks around and snickers.

"Meowth! Meowth Meowth!" Meowth says.

He then suddenly stops and stares at them in horror.

"OH NO…MY VOICE…WHY CAN'T I SPEAK HUMAN-SPEAK?!" Meowth thought to himself. "OH, THE HORROR!"

Meowth turns around and ran away from both boys, wailing a despairing 'MEEOOWWWTH!' as he went.

"Um, brother, what did you exactly do to that talking cat?" Alphones asks.

"Um…beats me..." Edward responds, scratching his head for he didn't know exactly what he did to Meowth either.

The Shower

Meanwhile, Jessie was in the only shower in the hotel, bathing while singing the Pokemon theme song horribly off-key.

Unbeknownst to her, someone meanwhile was entering the shower room.

The shower room suddenly turns black and white for no apparent reason.

"Huh? What happened to the color? Oh well…" Jessie says, continuing to sing and shower.

From Jessie's point of view, the shadow of that mysterious person creeps closer and closer to where she was bathing. Whoever it was, that person was holding something sharp in its hand.

Jessie then turns around, finally noticing the person in the same room with her.

"Huh? James, is that you?" Jessie asks.

No answer.

"Hey...wait a minute…what's that in your hand…AAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Jessie screams, as the person began to stab her repeatedly with its weapon, the sound of high-pitched violins shrieking in the background.

After the stabbing, the person reveales himself to be Master Chief, the hero from the FPS series Halo.

"That's for keeping me awake with your god-awful singing!" Master Chief says to her, before leaving the area, the shower still falling upon Jessie's bloodied body.

Outside The Motel

Outside the vicinity, James walks around seeing the sites.

It wasn't long before he spots a large house not too far from the motel that sat on a hill.

"Hmm? I wonder who lives there?" Jessie says, heading toward it to investigate it.

An Hour Later…

About an hour later, a ton of police cars arrive at the motel. Several Officer Jenny's pile out of the cars and swarm the area.

In no time, the Elric brothers were escorted away from the motel.

"What's going on here? We didn't do anything!" Edward says to an Officer Jenny.

"Relax, young man. We're just getting you two out of the area while we search for a trio of Pokemon thieves known as Team Rocket," one of the Jenny's explains.

"And its all thinks to our little private investigator: Wobbuffet!" another Jenny adds.

Minutes later, yet a different Officer Jenny came to report to the head Officer.

"Officer! We have recovered the stolen Pokemon from the thieves' getaway vehicle! We have also located the bodies of two of the three members of Team Rocket. The female member, Jessie, was found stabbed to death by some unknown assailant," she reports.

As she spoke, Master Chief sneaks by all of the police officers quietly using a cloaking device to make his escape.

"As for the feline Pokemon Meowth, it is concluded that he hung himself, due to this letter we found of him saying how cruel it is not being able to talk again," the Officer continued. "That just leaves the male member of the trio: James."

As if on cue, James was seen running from the house on the hill, wearing a flowered dress.

"How the heck did I wind up wearing this!?" James asks, with a 'WTF' look on his face.

"FREEZE! COME QUIETLY WITH YOUR HANDS UP!" the lead Jenny says to him on her megaphone.

"YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE!" James shouts back, turning to run around the side of the house…

"AAAAAAAAEEEEEEEIIIIIIIII!"

…which wound up being a cliff, in which James fell to his demise.

And that was the end of Team Rocket…for now.


Betcha didn't see all that coming, did ya! That concludes the first ten chapters! It's now to switch gears and change up some of the elements of this fic! Please review and stay tuned to the next!