CHAPTER 3

Karen looked up to find two characters in black and white clothing with big red Rs on the fronts of their shirts standing on a rock in dramatic poses, looking down at her. The male, who had blue hair and green eyes, held a red rose in his hand. The female who had strangely shaped reddish purple hair and blue eyes stood with her hands on her hips. Who are these clowns? the girl thought.

"To protect the world from devastation," the woman began.

"To unite al..." (Yeah you know the drill so I'll skip it and go right to the end) "Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light. Surrender now or prepare to fight!"

Karen gasped. "You guys are with Team Rocket?" she asked.

"Of course, little girl," the red haired woman, who'd introduced herself as Jessie, confirmed. "Who else would have their own motto?"

"Who else would want one," Karen commented. "And who else would made a big deal about it?"

"Eh? Why you!" Jessie stepped forward swinging her fists but James held her back. "Calm down, Jessie," James said.

"What do you want anyway?" Karen demanded, glaring up at them. "If you're here for a battle I'm not interested."

"We're not here for a battle," Jessie said. "We're here to take possession of your Pokemon." she held up a pokeball. "Now hand them over nicely and we won't need to fight."

"No way," Karen exclaimed clenching her fists. "I'm not giving you my Pokemon! Get your own!"

"But we want yours," Jessie said. "We know you have Mewtwo so we figured we'd take him from you and give him to the boss."

"No!" the girl shouted. "I won't let you have him!" she pulled out a pokeball. "Go Absol!" (Yes Karen has been to Hoenn). The ball hit the ground and the white and purplish colored dog like Pokemon came out. It growled at Jessie and James and looked like it wanted to take a bite out of James' rear. James whimpered in panic and hid behind Jessie who wasn't affected by the doomsayer pokemon.

"Hmm," she said, looking it over carefully. "It seems you've been around. Well that's not going to help you!" she threw her pokeball. "Go-" but before she could summon one of her better pokemon, Wobbuffet popped out of his ball.

"Wobbu!" it said.

"NO WOBBUFFET! I DIDN'T WANT YOU!" Jessie screamed.

"Wobbu?" it said, looking back at her.

"You call this a challenge?" Karen asked grinning. "It seems like unfair play to me." she pointed at the blue pokemon. "Absol, use tackle!"

"Grrrrr!" the pokemon roared running toward them. It ran into the Wobbuffet, knocking it into the air, then kept going, heading straight for Jessie and James.

"Ahhhhhhh!" Jessie and James screamed at once then started running around with the dog like pokemon chasing them.

Karen watched them run around, with slight amusement, then, feeling a bit bad for them, commanded, holding up a Pokeball. "Absol, return."

The pokemon went back into its ball and Jessie and James could take a breather. They stopped instantly and stood panting for a moment.

"Hey!" jessie exclaimed, looking over at the girl, once she had caught her breath.. "What's the big idea?"

"Big idea about what?" Kren asked. "That I called him back?"

"We were in the middle of a battle!" Jessie exclaimed, though for real they weren't. "You can't just call it back at will!"

"We were not in a battle!" Karen protested. "You send out your stupid pokemon to attack me so I defended myself. It's not my fault Absol doesn't like you guys."

"Our Pokemon aren't stupid!" Jessie protested. "and if I had sent out the right one you'd be begging for mercy right now."

"Sure I will," Karen said, tossing her pokeball up and down in her hand. "I don't know why you two are picking a fight with me or trying to steal my pokemon but I won't let you."

"It's very simple," Meowth said, jumping into the picture. "We know you have Mewtwo and since the boss would really like him back we decided to take him from you and give him back to him."

"Well like I told you I won't be giving you any Pokemon," she told them. "Mewtwo belongs to me and no second rate Rocket members are going to take him from me."

"Did she just call us second rate?" James asked Jessie.

"Grrr," Jessie growled. "We'll show her."

"But she already beat us," he said.

"Well she won't beat us if we play dirty," the woman said. She pulled out a bomb. "Try this on for size!" she shouted, before throwing it.

Karen was taken by surprise. When the bomb hit the ground by her feet it exploded and the force sent her backward. She lost be balance and fell off the edge of the rock formation, plummeting head first toward the water.

James looked at Jessie. "And that accomplished what?" he asked.

"I showed her who's boss," the woman relied, making a snotty face. "That little twirp thought she could make a fool of us. I taught her a lesson."

"And you killed her in the process," he informed her.

Jessie fell over. "I forgot!" she exclaimed.

Mewtwo, who was napping under the water, heard Karen's scream and opened his eyes. He saw the girl falling and instantly reacted, breaking the air bubble around him and flying upward. He caught Karen just seconds before she hit the water. Karen, who was surprised to find herself not hitting the water, opened her eyes to find herself in Mewtwo's arms. "Mewtwo?" she said, looking up at him.

(Karen,) he said, looking down at her. (What in the world are you doing?)

"I wasn't doing anything," she told him. She pointed at the rock face. "You see those two down there? They are after me."

(What for?) he asked.

'They want my pokemon," she said. "Especially you."

(Really?) he looked down at the two, and sounding totally unworried. He recognized the figures from when he'd met them a few years ago when they had stolen Ash's Pikachu and had accidently landed on his island. (So it's them again. I wonder what they're doing here?)

Maya, with some help from Brock, prepared a nice sea food lunch for the hungry travelers. As they sat down to eat Misty couldn't help noticing that Ash wouldn't stop glaring at Maya. "Stop that!" she hissed in his ear. "Glaring at her isn't going to make her change her mind about it."

"I don't care," he shot back. "I want to find that pokemon and if she won't help us I'll just have to look for it myself."

"Don't you dare!" she said. "If Maya finds out you'll be in trouble."

"Aww I don't' care what she thinks," he said. "I'm not going to let a stubborn girl keep me from becoming the worlds greatest pokemon master!"

"I don't think she cares what you want to become," Misty said, standing up and grabbing her red backpack. "And I for one am getting a little tired of it too." then she walked off. "Let me know when you grow up a little."

"Misty!" he called after her, getting up and following. "Don't walk away mad!"

(Do you want me to deal with them?) Mewtwo asked flying over the three below.

The idea crossed Karen's mind but she shook her head. "Naw," she said. "Let them think they got rid of me for now. Besides. I think it would be a good idea to tell the others who's here."

(All right,) he said flying off to the eastern beach.

A/N

I don't think I'll be updating this for awhile after today. I don't know what's keeping you all quiet. I mean I got like over 150 hits on this fic so far yet only 2 reviews. Isn't it good? Should I change it? I'm sorry. I'm trying my best to keep everyone in character and stuff. Can you all please give me some more reviews. I wouldn't mind having 2 for this chapter. Just two. Please.

IF I DON'T GET ANYMORE REVIEWS FOR THIS FIC I'M GONNA BE FORCED TO DELETE IT AND I REALLY DON'T WANT TO!

BTW the pokemon Karen has on hand (incase you might be wondering) are: Mewtwo, Abso, lEspeon, Haunter, and Dratini.

I won't ask for anymore reviews from you people because you don't seem to care anyway. I don't need anymore people flaming me namely "Flame Rising" and all his/her many other flaming names so I won't ask anymore. If my spelling stinks its because I write when I'm tired and need to get over that habit. Now I won't say anything else anymore because you all don't care anyway. :depressed: I hate being flamed...