White Pony: Well, here's the next chapter even if there hasn't been any reviews since chapter one. Oh well! Go, Disclaimer Dude!

Disclaimer Dude: Yeah, whatever. White Pony does not own Poke'mon, Duracells, Twinkies, or Popeye.

Chapter Three: Double Trouble

"!" a voice cried.

Jessica and Purge instantly stopped.

"Did you say something, Purge?"

"Pi? Chu." (Me? No.)

"Hmmm..." Jessica started off again with Purge at her heels.

"!" the voice cried again.

Jessica wheeled around and looked down to Purge.

"Purge, I know you said something!"

Purge jumped back in surprise, "Pikachu Pi Pika!" (I didn't say anything, dummy! It was that trainer over there!) Purge pointed at a Youngster leaping out of the tall grass and sprinting over to our heroes while trying to scratch his itchy legs due to wearing shorts.

"Hiya! I'm Jessica!" Jessica shouted happily and waved an arm in the air at the Youngster. Purge sweatdropped.

"My name is John and I challenge you to a Poke'mon battle!" the Youngster cried and he took out a Poke'ball.

"Okay!" Jessica agreed happily, "Go, Purge!"

"Pika!" Purge dashed in front of Jessica.

"I choose you, Mankey!" John threw his Poke'ball and released a Mankey.

"Mankey!" the Mankey cried angrily and it eyed Purge, "Mankey Mankey!" (You're going down!)

"Pikachu!" (Bring it on!)

"Mankey, poke it in the eyes then use Karate Chop!" John commanded his Poke'mon.

Mankey did what he was told. He poked Purge in the eyes with each index finger. When Purge covered her eyes and cried in pain, Mankey used Karate Chop. Purge landed on her stomach and rubbed her eyes.

"Are you alright, Purge?"

"Chu." (No.) Purge continued rubbing her eyes.

"Mankey, Low Kick!"

Mankey sprinted toward Purge and delivered a powerful Low Kick attack to her side.

"Pi!" (Ow!) Purge screamed in pain and she crashed to the ground, "Chuu." (Ouch.)

"How pathetic! Mankey, have some fun with the weak Poke'mon."

Mankey jumped on Purge's back, grabbed her ears, and yanked them.

"Pii!" (Hey!)

"That's not nice!" Jessica yelled angrily at John.

"Your Pikachu has the shortest ears out of every Pikachu I've ever seen!" John sneered, "Mankey could make them longer."

"I think they're cute!" Jessica chirped. John, Mankey, and Purge sweatdropped.

Mankey continued to yank Purge's ears. Jessica tried to think fast. Then for the first time in her life, she had a good idea.

"Puge, Thundershock!" Jessica yelled.

Purge quickly responded and charged up for the attack.

"PikaaaCHUUU!" Purge shocked Mankey at full power.

"MAAANKEEYY!" Mankey cried in agony and he fainted.

"No way, we were winning!" John cried and he recalled Mankey, "Mankey, return!"

"Yay! We won, Purge!" Jessica cried happily.

"Pi!" (Yep!)

Purge lifted herself up and limped over to her trainer.

"Aw, Purge, you're limping. I'll carry you."

Jessica picked up Purge and cradled her in her arms. Purge was very grateful not to have to walk the rest of the way. Jessica carried Purge the rest of the way to Pewter City and, surprisingly, knew the way to the Poke'mon Center.

"Hello, welcome to our Poke'mon Center! We can heal your Poke'mon back to perfect health!" a nurse Joy said joyfully, "Shall we heal your Poke'mon?"

"Yes, please." Jessica replied and Purge hopped onto the counter to be healed.

Suddenly, someone landed on the glass roof, a female Rocket Grunt. Then someone else, a male Rocket Grunt, landed on top of her. The female Rocket Grunt pushed off the male Rocket Grunt and bashed him in the head. After the male Rocket Grunt rubbed his head, he helped his partner break the glass roof. One end of a long rope was tied around a heavy object on the roof and the rest was thrown into the hole. The two Rocket Grunts began to climb down the rope and everyone in the Poke'mon Center watched them in amusement. When they were almost in the middle, the rope snapped and the two Rocket Grunts crashed to the hard floor. After a couple of minutes of groaning and checking themselves for injuries, they scrambled to their feet, brushed the dust off their uniforms, and turned on a record player that appeared out of nowhere and played their theme music.

"Prepare for trouble!" cried the female Rocket Grunt.

"Make it double!" the male Rocket Grunt followed.

"To protect the world from dangerous freaks!"

"To pelt them all with smelly meats!"

"To relinquish society of junk mail!"

"To go to the mall and see what's on sale!"

"Jean!" cried the female Rocket Grunt.

"Roy!" cried the male Rocket Grunt.

"Team Rocket blast off with speed and might!"

"Surrender now or prepare to fight!"

Suddenly, a wild duck Poke'mon holding a leek, leaped in front of Jean and Roy.

"Farfetch'd! Dat's right!"

The record scratched and the theme music stopped. Everyone else in the Poke'mon Center exchanged looks with each other and burst out with laughter.

"Stop laughing at us!" Jean roared and everyone quieted.

"We're here to take every last Pikachu here!" exclaimed Roy.

Everyone else except for Jessica, Purge, and Nurse Joy ran out of the Poke'mon Center. Jean and Roy eyed Purge with envy and released their Poke'mon.

"Go, Sandshrew!" said Jean.

"Go, Cuebone!" said Roy.

Jean's Sandshrew and Roy's Cuebone stood in their fighting stances and waited for their orders.

"Two against one's not fair!" exclaimed Jessica.

"Besides, Pikachu is still in bad condition!" said Nurse Joy.

"Pikachu!" (I can take em!) Purge leaped onto the floor and limped forward.

"This will be a cakewalk." said Jean.

"Cake! Where!" Roy looked around for cake, but got a bashing in the head.

"Purge, Thundershock!" Jessica ordered.

Purge knew that electric moves have no effect on ground Poke'mon, but obeyed because it was the only way her trainer will learn.

"PikaaaCHUU!"

Purge's electric attack didn't at all effect Sandshrew or Cuebone.

"Purge's attack didn't work! That can only mean that her Duracells have run down!"

"Idiot! Electric attacks don't effect ground-type Poke'mon!" yelled Jean.

"Ohhh..."

"Cuebone, Bonemerang!" Roy ordered his Cuebone.

"Cuebone!" (Take this!) Cuebone threw his bone at Purge, but she jumped to dodge it and it went back to him.

"Pika!" (Missed me!) Purge taunted.

"Sandshrew, Sand Attack!"

"Shrew!" (Yay!) Sandshrew hurled clumps of sand at Purge, blinding her.

"Let's try this again. Cuebone, Bonemerang!"

This time, Cuebone's attack didn't miss, it hit Purge right in the forehead.

"Chu..." (Ow...) Purge rubbed most of the sand out of her eyes, but the blow to her head blurred her vision and she staggered about.

"Sandshrew, Slash!"

"Cuebone, Bone Club!"

Purge collapsed and braced herself for the beating of her lifetime. Sandshrew and Cuebone ran toward their victim to deliver the final assault.

"Purge, get up!" Jessica pleaded, but the poor Pikachu couldn't get up.

"Spear!" (Hey!)

"Geotto!" (Leave her alone!)

A Spearow and a Pidgeotto swooped down to attack Sandshrew and Cuebone. The Pidgeotto struck Sandshrew with a critical Quick Attack and the Spearow used Fury Attack on Cuebone and continued the attack three times before he went down.

"Nooo!" Jean, Roy, and Farfetch'd cried in unison.

"Yay!" Jessica cried.

"You!" a voice cried. It was the mystery girl, "You with the Pikachu!"

"Me?" Jessica looked around for anyone else with a Pikachu, but found no one.

"Yes, you!" the mystery girl pointed an accusing finger, "Your Poke'mon stole my ice cream cone!"

Jessica looked down to Purge, "Did you take her ice cream, Purge?"

"Chu!" (No!) Purge replied angrily.

"She didn't do it!" Jessica said happily to the mystery girl.

"Not your Pikachu! Your Nidoran!"

"What's a Nidoran?"

The mystery girl widened her eyes in fury, "Spearow, Pidgeotto, check every one of her Poke'balls!"

"What's a Poke'ball?"

The mystery girl's eye twitched and her two bird Poke'mon pecked at each one of Jessica's Poke'balls until they came across the one holding the Nidoran. The Nidoran popped out of the Poke'ball and was eating out of a bowl of sugar that somehow got inside.

"Hey! What about us!" Roy bellowed.

"Can you wait!" the mystery girl bellowed back, making Roy cringe in fear.

"Only I can yell at my partner like that!" Jean roared, "And no, we can't wait! We are Team Rocket! Prepare for trouble!"

"M-make it double." Roy whimpered.

"To protect the world from dangerous freaks!"

"To pelt them all with smelly meats."

"To..." Jean was interrupted.

"Can it!"

"Never interrupt the motto! Go, Farfetch'd!"

"Ya gotta be kiddin!" said the surprised Farfetch'd.

"GO!"

"Fine!" Farfetch'd stood before the hovering Spearow and Pidgeotto and pointed, "Look ova dere! Twinkies!"

Spearow and Pidgeotto immediately turned around to look for Twinkies, then Farfetch'd slapped them in the back of their heads with his leek.

"Take dat, youse ova grown featha dustas!" yelled Farfetch'd. Spearow and Pidgeotto crashed to the floor, defeated.

"Speary! Pidgey!" the mystery girl cried in despair and she recalled them into their Poke'balls.

"What are we going to do!" said Nurse Joy.

"Mwahahahahaha! You'll give us that Pikachu and every last Poke'mon here!" exclaimed Jean.

"Never!" cried Nurse Joy and she sobbed.

"Pika Pika." (How ironic.) said Purge stating the irony that a Nurse Joy is crying.

The Nidoran looked from her sugar bowl, to the rejoicing members of Team Rocket and the sulking humans who were afraid of having their Poke'mon being taken away. She chugged what was left of the sugar and the Popeye spinach theme music came in the background as she bounced around. The hyper Nidoran stepped forward to challenge Team Rocket.

"Ya want some too?" Farfetch'd twirled his leek and struck, but Nidoran's sugar-drivenness was too fast for him. Jessica also stepped forward.

"Nidoran, go!"

Nidoran lifted a fifty pound bag of sugar and wacked Farfetch'd with it. Farfetch'd fainted from the blow. Then Nidoran sent Team Rocket flying through the roof and soaring in the sky.

"I'm flying! Wheeee!" cried Roy in joy (Gasp! A rhyme!) before disappearing within the clouds with his teammates.

"Yay! We won!" Jessica cried happily.

"NIII!" (SWEET!) Nidoran screamed before consuming twenty pounds of sugar in 12.96 seconds.

"Pika ka, Pikachu!" (Good job, Nidoran!) cried Purge, who was suddenly in full health.

The mystery girl just stood in awe after watching the craziness, "Crazy, just crazy."

"Come on, Rita! Let's go!" Jessica urged Rita, the mystery girl.

"Hold your Ponytas, I'm comin!" Rita shouted in irritation.

"I don't have any Ponytas."

"Pi Pika Pikachu." (It's a figure of speech.)

"Where are we going in such a hurry?"

"The 'Gime'."

"The what?"

"Pika?" (The what?)

Nidoran was too busy eating sugar and was withdrawn into her Poke'ball.

Jessica lead Purge and Rita to the Poke'mon Gym.

"See? A 'Gime'."

"Jessica, that's a gym."

"Ohhhhh..."

Purge and Rita sweatdropped.

"Come on, Purge, let's go in and win a badge! Rita, you can cheer us on!"

"Whatever." said Rita and she followed Jessica and Purge as they entered the Poke'mon Gym.

To be continued...