Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon; it belongs to Nintendo. A reference to Titanic and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (according to my friend) appear in this fic. I do not own them either.
It feels like forever since I last updated this. My inspiration seems to have evaporated, but I really want to finish this thing soon.
"Cannonball!"
Seconds after Ash bellowed his cry, the lake's surface splashed upwards from the impact. Gary scowled as a wave of water drenched his already soaked hair. "Watch the hair!" Ash blew a raspberry in his general direction.
"Very mature, Ash." Sabrina swam by, joining her Golduck in completing another lap around the boat. Farther out in the Lake of Rage, Kadabra floated with the help of an inner tube under his arms. Pikachu had one of the ropes of the tube in his mouth, using it to spin the tube around in circles as he doggy paddled around the angered psychic coyote.
The adults were clustered around the stern of the fishing boat, their lines thrown into the water. The three women contented themselves with iced tea and card games while the men fished.
"Isn't this the life, eh Professor?" Norman turned to his elder, sweatdropping as he saw the older man sleeping in his lounge chair, the fishing pole held loosely in his hands. A fishing hat, similar to Gilligan's, was pulled down over his eyes, and loud snores were slightly muffled from underneath.
The younger men chuckled a bit and resumed their objective, little knowing that they too would soon drift off, and that their wives would use the opportunity to sneak some cash from their wallets. Mr. Mime hummed as he swept the deck of the boat.
Suddenly, Norman's wife remembered something. "May, Max, did you remember to put on sunscreen?" Hearing her two children's replies, she resumed her card game.
"Oh Jack, Jack!" May crooned, throwing her arms outward as she stood at the bow in full Titanic style. "I'll never let go, Jack! I'll never let go!" A hand pushed into her back. She shrieked as she fell into the lake and Gary took her place at the bow.
"If you're gonna jump, jump. Don't talk." May huffed in annoyance as the others laughed at her expense. Gary flashed a devious smile as he jumped and splashed both her and Ash with water.
"Grrrah!"
Heads turned to look at Max. The young boy shook the super rod with both his small hands. "The stupid fishing rod won't work!" His older sister made a point of smiling; brandishing her own fishing rod to make sure he saw it. "Only a master fisher or trainer could hope to catch something with a super rod."
"Then is that why you chose an old rod, because you're neither?" Max screamed as his older sister made to hit him with the pole. But Max wasn't the only one having fishing rod problems…
"Rrrrrh!"
Jessie hit a nearby rock repeatedly with her own super rod. The action would have been terrifying for her partners to witness, however they had long ago developed a tolerance for it.
"Do you want to switch, Jessie?" James held out his good rod for her to take. But she chose to ignore the action. "I want to find the super rod inventor and strangle him with the line!" She snarled, and threw the pole as far and as hard as she could. It slammed into the back of a Gyrados that had been sleeping nearby. The lake pokemon roared, and Team Rocket froze in horror as the dragon prepared a hyper beam.
Back at the other fishing boat, trouble had been averted as May and Max had been made to switch fishing poles by Sabrina.
Their heads barely moved as a screaming blur of red, blue, and crème flew in front of them, powered by a beam of energy. There was a long moment of silence before Max piped up. "Did anyone just see three people go flying by after getting hit by a hyper beam?"
"Nope."
"No."
"Nu-uh."
"…I thought so." And with that, the small group continued fishing, oblivious to Team Rocket's flight.
"May, are you sure you want to use that swimsuit?" Sabrina questioned, raising an eyebrow and giving the brunette another good look.
The younger girl ran over to the mirror to make sure everything was okay. After she was satisfied, she turned back to look at the gym leader. "But it's cute and flattering. And it happens to be the only one I have that isn't wet."
Sabrina was going to add that the top part of the black bikini looked to be held on by thin threads and that at any moment it would slip off, but she decided not to even bother. May had already run out and jumped into the water to join her friends.
Sabrina sighed and counted. Five seconds later there was a screech and she chose that moment to walk out onto the deck. She could see the bikini top still afloat a few feet from May and the boat. The boys were laughing heartily, and May was swimming with one arm towards the errant swimsuit while covering her chest with the other, all the while shouting obscenities at the others for laughing.
Suddenly a blue shape swam inches in front of May, snatching up the bikini top and holding it triumphantly in the air. May screeched and Sabrina snorted at Golduck's teasing. In a flash Golduck had jumped onto the boat and began to dance and wave the top around. The boys hooted in laughter; May screamed another obscenity.
Sabrina couldn't hold her face stoic any longer; she burst into hysterical laughter while trying to tell her blue pokemon to give back the top.
"Ow ow ow ow ow!" Max moaned as he made his way into the RV. He was bright red all over, and his looks and limping added to the appearance of a Corphish with glasses. Further back, Ash and Sabrina entered their own RV. Ash had on a large smile as he looked back towards the younger boy.
"Did you all have fun?" Ash's mom asked as Sabrina's dad threw the RV into drive. Ash snickered.
"I sure did! I can't wait until Max's sunburn starts to peel!"
When his mother frowned upon his outburst, Sabrina sat down in her seat. "It will teach him never to go without sunscreen again."
The raven-haired girl paused, seeming to remember something. Then she and her Kadabra began to snicker madly at the memory.